Marylands BHA Danger Standard does not protect those with severe and persistent mental illness in which studies have proven will continue to deteriorate and decline without forced treatment. As a mental health advocate who has worked in professional settings over ten years witnessing those with severe mental illness decline to a point they are non- functioning as a member of society, I already knew Maryland laws needed to change. Now as a family member trying to get care for my own brother, I am witnessing first hand how hard this is. My brother suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2016 (age 24) that caused epilepsy and schizophrenia diagnosis to follow. From day one my brother has always feared medications due to paranoia from the schizophrenia. The first year he had multiple hospital admissions in which he would leave AMA and return home to pretty much guarantee it would happen again. Sometimes rushed back in ambulance the same day. We were always told the same thing from the hospital "he is an adult and can leave AMA if he signs the form". It was the 52nd hospital visit that triggered our family to get a list and secure a family lawyer. My brothers mental health providers, his neurologists and also adult protective services went to court with our family to advocate my brother is uncapable of understanding that medications are needed for quality of life and furthermore that leaving hospital AMA is further causing harm to his health. An AACO Circuit Judge agreed my brother lacked any capacity of understanding and granted me full guardianship which will allow me to prevent him from walking out of a hospital AMA. I felt like we reached a victory. But I would soon learn, our fight was far from over. While guardianship allows me to force him for medical care and force him to stay in hospital until he is medically clear, once he is "stable" he is sent back home to family with no plan on how he is going to treat his mental illness and epilepsy. During this process my brother is declining. He is currently 29 with multiple broken bones from the seizures, self injuries due to schizophrenia and cognitive decline to the point he doesn't recognize family or know how to use a toothbrush. I've had community providers tell me to refuse to take my brother home and advocate that community placement is unsafe for him since we know he will not comply with treatment in our home setting and furthermore it's unsafe for us to even attempt on our own as he has proven to be violent toward EMT and police when he is in a psychosis state. So I do. I tell the hospitals to find him a residential facility equipt to handle his needs and prevent further damage to his brain as we are almost over 5 years with inconsistent treatment. The hospitals keep him 2 weeks and then if I still refuse to pick him up they often threaten to send him to a shelter. I am hopeless and watching my loved one loose every sense of himself. It is tourture to our family and more importantly to my brother as the BHA does not recognize deteriorating conditions even when they know the person will continue to decline to the point of death. It's not fair to my family member who chooses life and can't get anyone to help ensure he gets that when he can't put up the fight himself. From my research, I found many families have this same struggle and I don't want any family to endure what ours has. Please help me save my brother and everyone else here in Maryland with similar stories who need the BHA to recognize danger doesn't have to be immediate to be a danger that way they can provide my brother residential treatment and force medications that will improve his quality of life.