I’ve just had to call the police on my sister now more times than I can count on my hands. She has been off meds for at least 8 months and every day off of them her brain continues to deteriorate. She threatened my mom and me. The police came and refused to take her to a hospital
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Sorry to hear you’re experiencing this. The mental health system is in sad shape in this country. Before I became a journalist I was a clinical social worker at an inpatient facility and involuntary admission is a mess.
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For decades we housed people with psychiatric problems in institutions and in a mix of Reagan era policy and the goal of making sure this population had access to civil liberties afforded to those who aren’t hospitalized 2/3
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I am the daughter of a mentally ill prisoner and I run a county suicide prevention program in California. I hear this story every day. Across our nation, our severely mentally ill are on a revolving door of 72 hr hospitalizations, the streets and jail. Make 5150 documentary!
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My ex was too. He was bipolar schizoaffective. After many tries with mental health docs & police my last resort was to take a huge risk & purposely get him super angry (wildly screaming at me) & keep him that way till police arrived. He was arrested then hospitalized.
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