Conservatorship of A.B. CA1/2

BACKGROUND

I. General Background A.B. was 42 years old at the time of the current proceedings. As related in a 2022 conservatorship investigation report, he had a diagnosis of undifferentiated schizophrenia with “disorganized thought process, bizarre behaviors and internally pre-occupied features,” and had been receiving mental health services in San Francisco since 2008. These included crisis interventions, psychiatric hospitalizations, residential treatment facilities, acute diversion units and stabilization programs. He had a history of assaultive and threatening behaviors, resulting in “numerous” restraining orders. He had minimal insight into his psychiatric symptoms (described as paranoia, persecutory delusions and auditory delusions), denied having the symptoms or needing the medication and had a history of medication and treatment noncompliance in the community. He was under conservatorship from September 2020 to September 2021 and consistently complied with medication during that time, but when the conservatorship was terminated, he disengaged from services and decompensated. In October 2022, A.B.’s aggressive and threatening behavior resulted in a section 5150 hold for…