Amanda Bynes reportedly returned to another mental health facility days after being released from outpatient treatment.
The 37-year-old actress was released in early July after spending about two weeks in her final facility after receiving her second “5150 hold” this year. TMZ.com Amanda now reports that she entered a new treatment center in Orange County, California, because she “felt she needed more help than outpatient care could provide.”
The website also reports that Amanda wanted to be in a more “therapeutic place” than living alone in her Los Angeles apartment.
She is said to have chosen her new treatment center on the recommendation of a specialist at the facility where she had previously been treated.
The ‘Hairspray’ star was placed on ‘5150 hold’ after allegedly calling police for help in June. The incident comes just months after she was taken into new custody after she was reportedly found naked walking the streets of Los Angeles in March.
The 5150 Psychiatric Suspension is designed to protect people with mental health disorders that they consider to be a danger to themselves or others, allowing them to undergo a psychiatric evaluation and crisis for a period of up to 72 hours. Allow to be protected involuntarily to undergo intervention.
Amanda has had mental health problems in the past and spent nine years under guardianship administered by her mother, Lynn. Her act as her guardian began in 2013, following her internment at a psychiatric facility in Pasadena, California, after a public meltdown and a series of legal troubles. Her protection order expired last year.