Twice. Once my roommate had a schizophrenic break, we called the police as we didn’t know what to do, they did the involuntary commitment to the emergency mental health care and they had us come get her in 3 days, because they didn’t have funding to help everyone and she at least had a place to go.
One of my (adult) step kids also suffers mental illness, she trusts me so when she was having a psychotic break I was able to get her into the car and out at the emergency room, unfortunately this was during COVID and they would not let anyone walk in with her but once she was through the doors they handled it and sent us a letter with the legal information.
Basically, if you can get them to go to the emergency room and self-commit they will have an easier time. If you cannot, here the police are the only alternative, you may have more specialized resources where you are. Hopefully. But it’s an emergency, the emergency room is a good place to start.
I hope you don’t call police anymore because you’re likely to get them killed now a days. Instead just call social services or something but not the police.
There isn’t anything here yet (you can’t call 911 and get someone other than the cops, there is a helpline for people to call themselves though, a suicide prevention line that does try to put people in touch with help) and I strongly agree with you it’s not police work. Luckily she was a young white lady, sort of cop kryptonite.
Hopefully it’s better in other places but it’s a difficult problem, no way to make it an easy one.
Twice. Once my roommate had a schizophrenic break, we called the police as we didn’t know what to do, they did the involuntary commitment to the emergency mental health care and they had us come get her in 3 days, because they didn’t have funding to help everyone and she at least had a place to go.
One of my (adult) step kids also suffers mental illness, she trusts me so when she was having a psychotic break I was able to get her into the car and out at the emergency room, unfortunately this was during COVID and they would not let anyone walk in with her but once she was through the doors they handled it and sent us a letter with the legal information.
Basically, if you can get them to go to the emergency room and self-commit they will have an easier time. If you cannot, here the police are the only alternative, you may have more specialized resources where you are. Hopefully. But it’s an emergency, the emergency room is a good place to start.
I hope you don’t call police anymore because you’re likely to get them killed now a days. Instead just call social services or something but not the police.
There isn’t anything here yet (you can’t call 911 and get someone other than the cops, there is a helpline for people to call themselves though, a suicide prevention line that does try to put people in touch with help) and I strongly agree with you it’s not police work. Luckily she was a young white lady, sort of cop kryptonite.
Hopefully it’s better in other places but it’s a difficult problem, no way to make it an easy one.