What can I do to help my husband who is shizophranic and chooses to be homeless?
My husband is a Paranoid Schizophranic and he often would get off his medication, and leave to go and stay with his mother in Chicago, who agrees with him that he doesn't need to take his medication, and he could live with her. My husband would leave for about 3 months over the years would return here to Mississippi all tired looking and with his mind very tired from a lack of sleep, and from hearing the voices, and I would have to hospitalize him with the help of his Therapist convincing him or sometimes by force getting the police and court involved. My husband would leave saying that I don't love him because I keep trying to get him to take his medication, and placing him in the hospital. He also states that I even talk to the voices in his head. My husband when he is off his medication can become violent, he would talk to himself, walk constantly throughout the day and night, make false accusations about me and about other people, he would curse and throw things for no reason in the bedroom alone to himself, unplug the tv, and a couple of occasions punched me, and charged at our 21 year old daughter ( I step in and was knock to the floor). When he is on his medication he is the loving man that I know and married, without it I don't know him. My husband had no signs that I was aware of that he was Schizophranic until 11years into our marriage. We been married 24 years. Anyway in February of this year he left again refusing to take his medication, and went to Chicago, this time he scared his mother so bad and also left Chicago saying that everyone was messing with his mind, and moved to Columbia South Carolina, where he doesn't know anyone. He would call to talk to our daughter sometimes and was living in homeless shelters, we now learn that he is living on the streets, sleeping outside. He has money from his social security disability on his card, and I asked him why want he get his own place or a room, since he says he will never get on his medication and want return home. He tells me that he likes living homeless, and can't stand four walls, that he wants everyone to leave him alone. My daughter and I are very concern that someone could hurt him, and his mind is worsier than before, what can we do to get him home to get help, or even get him help in Columbia, South Carolina where he is at? I feel like we are running out of time, because he stated he might go somewhere else where noone can find him?