“Mental illnesses deserve second chance“. It is with these words that the lawyer sums up Adrien Roca the essence of the case you won so that exonerate to a woman in debt 23,000 euros due to compulsive purchases and shopping carried out without being aware of it due to a bipolar disorder.
This may not seem like an astronomical sum, but this employee of a courier company in Alicante not only faced economic asphyxiation due to her modest income, “lost THE legacy and even though he had already spent this money, he continued to ask for loans,” his lawyer explains.
ruin or a healthy situation that he enjoyed a few years after his retirement, due to his mental health problems. So much so that she was oblivious to the payments she was taking on without realizing it, that later, in her moments of lucidity, without symptoms and outside of the bipolar epidemic, she did not even remember to whom she had made transfers, in some cases.
I fell into the spiral of ‘stirring” and credit cards, among other forms of financing, without initially triggering the alarm of these entities due to their late payment, until the accumulation leads to a dead end, a dead end.
For the partner of the Olima Legal law firm, who knew this problem very closely from one of his relatives – only that in 2008 the second chance law did not exist and that he could not benefit from it – society must become aware of “here» of these behaviors and the need to resolve them.
“There is a lot of people with these debts, they have a lot stress», underlines Roca, for whom there is no need to fear the stigmatization due to mental illnesses.
To prosper in the specific case of this woman in difficult situation, the medical reports allowed us to demonstrate that she was not acting of her own free will, but rather pushed by this pathological behavior. Now that justice has ruled in his favor, the question arises as to how he can avoid falling again.
Roca explains that measures cannot be applied, such as against gambling addiction, when the person is registered in a file to prevent their access to gambling establishments, even if this veto is often not applied. For people with mental disorders, it sometimes happens that a guardianshipfor someone to have access to your bank accounts and finances, to ensure that you don’t go on a spending spree, even if it’s complex to implement.
Olima Legal has specialized in handling issues related to this recent second chance regulation and, among other notable cases, has managed to highlight that of a real estate businessman. retired to whom debts amounting to 10.7 million euros were exempted, as published ABC.
