u/No-Marionberry7588

Schizophrenic Mom who is the only caregiver of my 6 year old autistic brother.

I KNOW THIS IS SUPER LONG BUT PLEASE SOMEONE READ IT!!! I've never posted on reddit before but i'm desperate and don't know what I can do to help this situation. My mom is bipolar and schizophrenic. She refuses to get treatment and doesn't take her medications. Up until a few months ago I was living with her and my little brother, but she had an episode that led to us getting evicted. I am only 22, just graduated college and have no income so I had to move back with my Dad. Unfortunately my brother has another dad who we don't know so no one else but my Mom can have custody of him. I've tried calling CPS, the police, and 988 multiple times throughout her episode before the eviction and they didn't do anything. My aunt ( her sister who has witnessed this behavior before in the past) also tried to get a 51/50 on her around the same time. This was all back in July/August. Now, the situation has passed, my mom has found a stable place to stay in. She's been begging my sisters and I to come see her as it's been a couple months and everyone was hesitant because we didn't know if she was back to "normal". After we were texting her for this past week she invited us over for this weekend (last night) and we decided that maybe she's in a better mental space now so we should go see her. We get there and everything's fine, she seems okay and not out of the ordinary and she leaves to go get us something to eat. She gets back and before she even enters the door my sisters hear yelling so they look through the window and see her yelling and pointing at nothing, no one was there. She barged in the house super angrily, started to throw stuff around and slam doors all while continuing to yell and talk to herself. She gets in the shower for two minutes and comes out completely naked and starts yelling at all of us again. She stays like that the whole time and the situation escalates she doesn't stop yelling and fighting with my sisters and I so i just tell them to go outside and I grab my brother too. She then follows us and the security of the place gets involved. My main concern is my brother because he's has autism and is only 6 years old. He's crying, covering his ears, and is visibly scared. She does this often and puts him in this state of stress that he doesn't deserve to be in. My question is what can I do to get him out of that situation where I feel completely helpless and useless because no one has custody of him but her. Law enforcement, CPS, hasn't taken me seriously even with video proof of her behavior, because there is no physical abuse or neglect. I've tried calling her psychiatrist, they didn't do anything either. She's just super unstable, unpredictable and unfit to care for a child especially an autistic one. I hate having to leave him alone with her after she acts like this because there's been MULTIPLE occurrences. It doesn't feel right and I feel like he's unsafe and I wouldn't know what she does when Im not there because on top of that my brother is non verbal. I'm so sick of this going on and I really need advice on anything I can do to save him from her. It's been really hard to get law enforcement to listen to me or other family members of hers because we have witnessed that when they do show up she's really good at putting on a mask and they always let her go because she seems "normal". Please if anyone can give me advice, if there's anything I can do to get my little brother away from her. I feel like i've exhausted all my resources and feel completely helpless. But i can't sleep at night not knowing what she is putting my brother do. Thank you for listening to me I don't know who i can talk to about this besides my own family.

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u/No-Marionberry7588 — 4 days ago