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The court did not put her in her parents care - they made her mother a conservator, which means she was legally responsible for her financial affairs. They didn't take away Amanda's rights or put anyone else in charge of her healthcare or life decisions. Her mother couldn't force her to take medication any more than she could withhold it if she wanted it! You guys are all acting like Amanda is a child or someone who's been found mentally unfit or incapable of making decisions on their own and that was NEVER the case (except for the initial hold). Is it sad? Yes. Is it a shame? Yes. But this is no different from the thousands of other mentally ill patients who refuse medical treatment and/or medications and the people who love them.

I haven't finished reading through this thread, but your understanding of a conservatorship for mental illness is completely wrong. Under a conservatorship, essentially ALL of your rights are taken away because you are deemed not to have capacity to make decisions due to your mental illness. The conservator is responsible for making the medical decisions and can force her to take medications, get treatment, etc.

People that are responsible for financial affairs only are payees or fiduciaries, NOT conservators. Conservators have a ton of power and if the reports are true, her parents really messed up.
 
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You answered the question yourself.. your friend takes the prescribed dosage. Amanda was most likely taking (far) more than a prescribed dosage (assuming it was even prescribed to her!) which would most definitely impair even a mentally stable person, let alone one with 'issues'.

Ahhh, not sure why I wasn't thinking of her over taking it.
 
Gotta love the media headlines:

>>Amanda Bynes - Paranoid & Talking To Inanimate Objects In NYC
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>>Amanda Bynes Looks "Normal and Stable" During New York City Bike Ride ...E! Online

>>Amanda Bynes Talks to Inanimate Objects, Needs Help?NDTV



I talk to inanimate objects all the time. But then, I know I'm nuts.
 
The headlines are sad :sad:


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Finishing off her look with a pair of large tinted sunglasses, the actress appeared carefree as she cycled around the streets of the Big Apple.





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But hours after touching down, fears over her state of mind were raised when she was seen walking around the Upper East Side on Manhattan looking dishevelled with a large bandage on her face.




Her blonde hair extensions were in a tangle as she puffed on a cigarette while appearing to chat on her phone.
Wearing baggy grey joggers, a denim jacket, and a yellow cardigan, she wrapped up with a fuzzy grey scarf.
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On the move: The former child star was spotted by a fellow passenger at LAX on Thursday

TMZ reported that on Friday evening Amanda went into the Cartier store sporting her mismatched outfit.
Eyewitnesses told the gossip website that Amanda was later spotted in Union Square 'speaking to inanimate objects like a tree'.




The night before, on Thursday, she was spotted at LAX 'talking to herself' by an eyewitness in the first images of the star since her arrest.
An employee at an airport restaurant posted a snap of Bynes to Instagram eating at her establishment with an explanatory caption.
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Chat: An Instagram user claims to have to talked to the star, who was eating by herself

Brittany Anne (under the Instagram handle missbbgun)) wrote: 'Yeah, that's Amanda Bynes. I talked to her. She's f***** crazy. I kinda feel bad for her.'
In the image a woman that looks like Bynes can be seen sitting at a booth eating by herself, with her locks tinted a bright blonde.

Missbbgun went on to claim: 'Before I knew who she was all I heard was a server telling me to kick out the crazy b**** at 141 who's putting on a ton of make up at the table so before I even saw her face I walked over and made a comment and when she looked up and replied I was like holy f*** it's Amanda Bynes.




'And then she was like "Well I sat myself one of the hostesses looked really upset and.. Blah blah blah" She just started making s*** up dude and then I was just like no problem girl.'
Adding: 'She started putting on tons of make up and making weird faces and talking to herself. She's not well.'
Sources told TMZ that the former child star was seen walking around Los Angeles all day Thursday talking to herself.




The site also claims that Amanda got another dye job on her hair at a salon in Thousand Oaks before heading to the airport for a flight out of town.
Star Magazine, meanwhile, reports that eyewitnesses encountered Bynes earlier that same day ordering food at LA Buns & Co. in West Hollywood.
Samuel David Ayres told the publication: 'Her hair was an awful black and white mess. I walked up next to her to pick up my order just as she was getting her drink and finishing up ordering her food. It looked like she had a small Band-Aid or piece of medical tape on her left cheek.'




Ayres then relates how the former actress revealed she had no money to pay for the food she had ordered: '"So…I don’t have any cash,"' [Bynes said] before taking her drink and leaving without paying.
'About 10 or 15 minutes later she came walking by again but going the other direction,' Ayres claimed.
An employee at the restaurant confirmed Ayres statements to Star: 'Amanda wanted food, but didn’t have any money, so I let her take the drink. She walked back and forth down Santa Monica Blvd. a couple of times alone. She was wearing a strange black thing around her head and looked really confused.'







For the past year Lynn and Rick Bynes have been taking care of their troubled daughter by opening the doors of their Thousand Oaks, California home and overseeing her medication after the star experienced a string of run-ins with the law.
But on Monday the couple confessed to X17Online they lost track of where the actress was living after she was released from her conservatorship earlier this month.
'We don't know,' a gaunt-looking Rick told the site, also noting he learned of her second DUI arrest on Sunday from the media. It was also revealed the What A Girl Wants star did not ask her parents for her $15,000 bail.
AMANDA BYNES: TIMELINE

Summer 2010
*Retires from acting, aged 24, saying 'I don't love acting anymore. She unretires a few weeks later.
April 2012
*Arrested after a minor fender bender involving a stopped police car in West Hollywood, California in the early hours of the morning. She reportedly refused a breathalyser or blood alcohol test.
*Just four days later, she crashes into another car on the Los Angeles freeway and reportedly flees the scene
June 2012
*Uses Twitter account in an attempt to persuade Barack ***** to intervene in her DUI case: 'Hey @BarackObama… I don’t drink. Please fire the cop who arrested me. I also don’t hit and run. The end.'
August 2012
*Rear ends a female motorist on Ventura Boulevard
September 2012
*Is formally charged with two counts of hit-and-run from the June and August incidents and pleads not guilty.
*A day later, she is pulled out for driving with a suspended licence.
*Continuing to behave erratically, she is kicked out of a Los Angeles spin class. However, she tells People.com she is 'doing amazing' in the wake of the latest charges and claims to be moving to New York City where she plans to start a fashion line.
November 2012
*Threatens to sue a U.S. magazine for alleging she walked around a New York tanning salon naked save for a pair of goggles. 'I’m not "troubled", she declared. 'I don’t get naked in public. I’m 26, a multimillionaire, retired. Please respect my privacy.'
March 2013
*Tweets that she wants R&B star Drake to 'murder my vagina'
April 2013
*Insists that photographs showing her walking around New York City with cheek piercings and a pink wig are of someone pretending to be her. 'My hair is blonde, I’ve never been a redhead!' she tweets. 'Somebody keeps posing as me! Check my photos on Twitter for up to date pictures!'
*Partially shaves her head
May 2013
*Tells InTouch magazine she has 'no clue' why people say she's insane. 'Every time I’ve heard it, it came from an ugly person’s mouth, so I don’t care,' she says, adding she is 'allergic to alcohol' and 'can’t wait to start working on an album.'
*Claims via Twitter she had a nose job a few years prior to 'remove skin that was like a webbing in between my eyes.'
*In a seemingly unprovoked attack, she tweets Rihanna: 'Chris Brown beat you because you're not pretty enough. No one wants to be your lover so you call everyone and their mother that I almost named my new dog Rihanna.' Rihanna fires back: 'Ya see what happens when they cancel intervention?'

*Is sentenced to three years of summary probation after pleading no contest to driving with a suspended license.
*Arrested for allegedly throwing a glass bong out of her 36th floor apartment window in New York City. Is taken to hospital for psychiatric evaluation. Appears in court wearing a platinum wig and claims the bong was a vase.
July 2013
*Is placed on a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold after reportedly starting a fire in a stranger's driveway in Thousand Oaks, California.
August 2013
*A Los Angeles judge grants her parents temporary conservatorship over her affairs and the psychiatric hold is extended for 30 days.
September 2014
*Is released from her conservatorship and moves out of her parents' home and into an apartment in Orange County.
October 2014
*Is pulled over in the San Fernando Valley neighbourhood on Sunday at 4am and taken into custody. Cited for being under the influence of a controlled substance while driving her Mercedes-Benz.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2782101/Amanda-Bynes-cuts-glamorous-figure-rides-bicycle-streets-NYC-DUI-arrest.html#ixzz3FN6rYBXI
 
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