My friend is highly educated with an engineering degree. She has done many jobs. In 2017 after being left by her husband she had gone to her paternal house where her mother and brother live. She asked for some share in the property. But instead of giving her the share her brother and mother forcefully sent her to a mental asylum. There she was kept for 30 days and reportedly diagnosed with schizophrenia. She had to continue the medication. She is perfectly normal now. She is living now with her brother and mother in her paternal house. But her mother is a bully. She wants to live in a separate flat independently. She wants to start an NGO. Also she wants her share in her paternal property. But her brother and mother constantly threatening her that they will send her again to the mental asylum if she does not listen to them and she can't live independently as she is mentally ill. My query is that is it true that my friend with schizophrenia does not have a free will, can't live independently and must need consent of a guardian for everything she wants to do.
