Originally posted by: desigal90
Even people with Bipolar Disorder or mental illness have capacity to make decisions. It's not mutually exclusive. Unless someone is going through an acute psychotic episode and a physician deems that you don't have capacity to make decisions, people with mental illness can make their own decisions.
At least in the US, unless you are deemed someone's "conservator" (with psych illnesses), the patient in question has full rights to make decisions.
And if we're gonna go down the route that he was so severely incapacitated that he did not have capacity to make his own decisions, then I'm sorry, but that's a huge burden to place on any family member. That makes the suicide angle much more believable and by then Rhea had left.
I'm not in the group which is trying to say SSR was incapable or without blame. I'm pointing out Rhea said she was his caregiver.
Regardless, she did buy drugs and that, too, for someone other than herself.
So there is no way she isn't more culpable. if we actually take her word for it that she was some nursing angel caring for this ill man, then yeah, she dug herself into a pretty deep hole here.
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