Amanda Bynes will reportedly be home for Christmas. According to sources the 27-year-old actress is expected to be released from the Malibu rehab facility in December and taken to her mother's house, TMZ reports.
Doctors feel that her medication and psychological counseling have stabilized her enough where she is ready to transition back out into the real world. Bynes will reportedly leave the celeb-friendly facility and stay with her mother at the family home under her parents' supervision.
The former child star has been at the Malibu facility since September after leaving the psych ward at UCLA Medical Center. Sources told the website that staying at the psych ward was "freaking her out" and keeping her from improving.
After relocating to Malibu sources said that Bynes had stopped wearing he wigs but was extremely "paranoid" that paparazzi were going to snap a picture of her. It was also reported that she hardly left her room and didn't want to interact with any of the other patients. Instead Bynes wanted to receive treatment for her mental illness in private.
At first TMZ reported that Byes was still in a "desperate state" and was expected to continue getting treatment until 2015. It seems like that timeline might have changed now that doctors reportedly feel like she is ready to leave.
Even though doctors claim they see a significant improvement in the star they are afraid that she is beginning to go "stir crazy" because she can't go outside because of all the photographers lurking around the building.
In late June the actress was placed under an involuntary psychiatric hold, a 5150 hold, after starting a fire in the driveway of a Thousand Oaks, Calif. home. Leading up to the hospitalization, Bynes displayed odd behavior including wearing wigs in public, allegedly throwing a bong out the window of her 36th floor Manhattan apartment and attacking celebrities on Twitter.
