Amanda Bynes was seen on an outing in public over the weekend, marking her first public sighting since she entered an inpatient treatment facility in July.
The 37-year-old former actress was pictured out in Orange County, California, after she made a trip to a Ralph’s grocery store for some supplies on Saturday. She had also reportedly been spotted in public on the previous day.
Sources told TMZ on Wednesday that Bynes has graduated from her initial status at the mental health facility, which had prevented her from making excursions.
Now she has been bumped up to the facility’s minimal supervision group, meaning she can leave the grounds at certain times of day on her own.
Bynes had previously been enrolled in an outpatient treatment program, but she left that program and checked herself into her current more-intensive inpatient program late last month.
On the town: Amanda Bynes was seen over the weekend after taking a short trip without supervision fro her inpatient mental health treatment facility in Orange County, Calif., marking her first sighting since she checked herself in late last month
At the time, sources told TMZ that Bynes wanted to avoid the solitude she felt living by herself in an apartment, and she also wanted a more dedicated team of mental health professionals that her current program offers.
Amanda was dressed casually for her weekend trip in a white shirt with a thin gray zip-up hoodie and a black windbreaker.
She paired the tops with a slim set of dark blue jeans, and she had her black-dyed hair pulled back in a top knot.
The outlet’s sources noted that Bynes was making considerable improvements — enough to go out on her own without supervision — but she still wants to stay there and doesn’t yet have a plan for when she will end treatment.
In the meantime, she’ll continue meeting with mental health professionals to aid her recovery.
The sources added that the She’s The Man star feels comfortable with her current living situation, and she reportedly appreciates having therapists and medical professionals at her fingertips, as well as having other patients around to socialize with, something she apparently wasn’t getting much of before she entered treatment.
According to people who spotted her on her trip around town, Bynes dropped by a smoke shop around 6:30 p.m. on Friday, though it’s unclear what she may have purchased.
She was seen again on Saturday when she headed to a Ralph’s located near the facility. The All That star was seen in photos leaving the store with a full paper bag of groceries.
Stocking up: Bynes was seen visiting a smoke shop in the OC around 6:30 p.m. on Friday, then photographed on Saturday (pictured) as she bought a bag of groceries at Ralph’s
Improving: Bynes has graduated to be able to leave the inpatient facility without supervision at specific times. She checked in last month after feeling her outpatient facility wasn’t cutting it
In crisis: In March, Bynes was placed on a psychiatric hold after she was found wandering the streets of Downtown LA in the nude; seen in 2013
Amanda has lately left her loved ones concerned after she seemingly failed to achieve a more stable mental state in the wake of past issues that have led her to check in and out of mental health facilities.
Back in June, she was placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold just two months after she was released from a three-week stay at a mental health facility after she had been found roaming the streets of Downtown Los Angeles in the nude in March.
A mental health evaluation had deemed her ‘a danger to herself and others,’ members of the Los Angeles Police Department told TMZ at the time.
In a surprising twist, they added that it was Bynes herself who initially called the police to report that a woman was allegedly in distress.
Her psychiatric hold was subsequently extended by at least a week as doctors worked to stabilize her medication.
After she was picked up by police for wandering the streets naked, Bynes’ former fiancé Paul Michael claimed to Page Six that she had not been taking her prescribed medications prior to the mental health crisis.
Prior to March of 2022, Amanda had been under a conservatorship, and it was her mother Lynn who helped ensure that she took her medication as prescribed before it was ended.
Michael subsequently claimed that he and his ex had broken up shortly before her March hospitalization.
However, Bynes’ parents had banned Michael from contacting or visiting their daughter while she was in the hospital, sources exclusively told DailyMail.com.
Contributing factors? Her former fiancé Paul Michael (L) claimed they broke up before her breakdown, and he also said she had not been taking her prescribed medicine beforehand
Ongoing problems: During her March hold, a source said her parents didn’t want to reinstate her conservatorship because they thought it was an isolated event, but she had continued to have mental health issues; seen in 2015 in LA
‘They do not want her ex-fiancé around her, and he has been instructed to have no contact with her,’ an insider explained.
‘He does not seem to have her best interests in mind and her family has nothing good to say about him.’
Despite her continued mental health issues, the insider said that Bynes’ parents weren’t considering trying to reinstate her conservatorship at the time, as they believed her hospitalization was an isolated event.
However, she has continued to require extensive psychiatric services in the months since then.
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