A patient I met with dependent traits, and somewhat intrusive to the point of annoyance would be on the unit every few months. He really wasn't mentally ill, just someone with borderline intelligence without good social support, and everytime he needed something he'd go to the hospital thinking we were the solution. He'd end up on the psychiatric unit (shouldn't have been admitted to begin with), was needy (asking for nurses for something trivial every few minutes) and we'd discharge him.

I had a discussion with him, telling him that the hospital wasn't the solution, encouraged him to get a job, his own place, etc. on his last discharge.

I saw him a few months later. There was a georgious woman at work and she needed a place to stay so this guy, IMHO trying to think it'd get him somehwere with her, invited her to his trailer (he was always homeless when we saw him). So he goes to work, she said she'll stay home for the day.

He comes back home, she got a restraining order on him while he's out, so now the police won't let him go into his own trailer. He tells the police the place is his, they don't believe him, and they bring him to the hospital.

While in the hospital, we tell the police the place is his, they tell us they dont' give a damn saying that if he invited her into his place they can't do anything, and now he doesn't know how to get her out of his own place. Meanwhile we find out she let her drug-dealer boyfriend into the place.

We discharged him, and when he tried to go back to his own home, the police arrested him for violating the restraining order.