This article describes my brother (minus the programming experience).  The hard thing is you can never make someone get help if they aren&#x27;t a threat to themselves or others.  Being an all around a-hole isn&#x27;t sufficient to make someone admit themselves to a facility (no matter the run ins with police or the diagnosis). He&#x27;s lucky he went to a facility and followed through.  My brother ended up in one and I felt like I talked him into staying.  Then he calls me to try and get me to lie to his social worker.  Then the social worker calls me and I don&#x27;t lie (he wasn&#x27;t staying with me and he didn&#x27;t have a job).  Social worker listens but then a few days later he&#x27;s out.  My only hope is that now that he went out to California the system out there can make him get help.