to confirm ... the proposed patient’s distress and the deterioration of the proposed patient’s ability to function.” Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann. § 574.034(d)(2) (Vernon Supp.2002). Legal Sufficiency At trial, it was undisputed that appellant suffers from bipolar disorder, is mentally ill, and requires medication on a regular basis to help treat her illness. However, appellant argues the evidence was legally insufficient to support the jury’s finding that she was experiencing a substantial mental or physical deterioration of her ability to function independently. She contends no evidence was presented of a recent overt act or continuing pattern of behavior which tended to confirm that she was unable to provide for her own basic needs. As noted above, the State las 2001, no pet.) (<HOLDING>); T.G. v. State, 7 S.W.3d 248, 251-52
holding evidence of patients delusion that she was in military and that mail carrier was responsible for her welfare not sufficient to meet required statutory burden holding evidence of patients schizophrenia auditory hallucinations paranoia irritability and refusal to take medication not sufficient to meet required statutory burden holding that substantial evidence did not support agencys finding fear speculative when petitioner had offered evidence that she had already had two children that she planned to have more that she had gone to great lengths to avoid being sterilized in china and that she had removed her iud after escaping to the united states holding evidence of patients delusion that she was pregnant and had sutures in her vagina not sufficient to meet required statutory burden holding evidence of patients psychotic behavior delusions that she had undergone surgery by satellite and had electronics implanted in her not sufficient to meet required statutory burden