Maybe he meant "it's not real, so... I can't shoot the hallucination."
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I had an involuntary wellness check once.
During the whole thing I kept thinking, "If I make a play for his gun, he'd have to shoot me, right?"
This in another long line of reasons you shouldn't send a poorly trained man with a gun to do a wellness check.
I had these very strong thoughts as well. Thankfully my concern that others might get injured in the fallout overrode it.
Cant even trust these mfers to get a point blank shot right anymore ffs smh
Throw an acorn at their car's hood to start a firefight
Had to send my sister off for a 72 hour hold yesterday. Cops and I showed up at the same time, I let them in and then they just kinda stood around and watched me handle it until medics arrived lmao
Fucking Sheriff standing there asking some random dude “what should we do about the animals?” Don’t you have a procedure for this????
Respectfully to your sister but the idea of there being a 72 hour expulsion of all rights or consent because other people have decided that they know better about your own life is beyond infuriating to me.
I know, suicide makes people sad and people often regret trying it. But just straight up imprisoning people for wrongthink is the literal reason I have never even considered therapy. It is so unbelievably dangerous to me to communicate with anyone the thoughts in my head because everyone around me or in any position of power would deem it harmful to myself, and therefore I am not allowed to have agency in the world.
I've been having these thoughts consistently, and nonstop for 25 fucking years and could never even imagine doing anything to fix it because doing so would land me in a mental institution where I would lose my mind instantly at the loss of autonomy. I would become a feral animal ripping at throats.
Why does anyone get to determine what is acceptable for me to do with my own body?
because doing so would land me in a mental institution
Source? Most (Western) countries have requirements like "Must be in acute danger to themselves or others" to involuntarily commit you. Even self harm, as long as it doesn't put your life at significant risk, is insufficient.
Even suicide prevention hotlines don't send tracking information to emergency services as long as you aren't e.g. telling them you will kill yourself right before hanging up.
The fact you've been having these thoughts for 25 years makes me think you weren't in acute danger for (the vast majority of) that time.
I mean he’s right, you can’t answer the questions they ask completely truthfully. They will consider you a risk to yourself. Then you get your rights removed.
When suicide is one of the only ways we have control over our experience, I’m not sure why it’s so shocking that someone would think about it daily.
Can’t even talk about it.
"or others"
Capitalism must protect itself at all costs.
This is in reference to people during a psychotic break. They behave irrationally and can be extremely hostile. So yes, unstable people running around in the public with knifes should receive psychological help, voluntary or not. Even if we lived in an anarcho-communist utopia these people will not vanish (although there might be fewer cases due to lower stressors) and must be treated.
Thanks for your opinion bro.
I’ve been to the ward on my accord, sent my ex against his will and sent my sister cooperatively. I’ve seen all of the ways someone makes it to the ward. There is a good fucking reason for the 72 hour hold to exist. Just because you’ve never needed it doesn’t make it ridiculous or out of sorts.
Ok. I am talking about how how there is a non zero chance that if I go to therapy and say the wrong thing, I lose my freedoms. And that wrong thing is completely determined by the therapist. The idea that seeking help necessitates putting my ENTIRE LIFE in the hands of someone else that I do not trust (nor the entire profession) makes my skin crawl. If I say the wrong thing, they say you are not safe to be around others, they come to collect me and not wishing to go, I become that danger to others that they were so worried about. They would create the problem they seek to avoid.
I cannot in any way trust these people making the decisions.
Just because some people say their lives were improved through the prison system, it does not justify its existance.
The ward isn’t prison. It sucks, but it isn’t prison.
A therapist isn’t going to send you to the ward unless you tell them “I have a plan for when and how I am going to kill myself” or “I plan on bringing harm to this person”
Other than that, they’re just gonna ask you “and why do you think you feel that way?”
Precisely why I am worried.
Regardless, I know why I feel this way, there is no mystery. There are specific people responsible. They don't even hide it.
Yeah dude they shoot them
what is a hold. what did you handle. Where did the animals come in I'm so confused
My sister attempted suicide. She is being legally held for 72 hours in a mental ward to make sure she doesn’t try again.
so sorry to hear that. Absolutely infuriating that they even knew what they were being called for and nobody had the right training or experience.
I wish you and your sister all the strength in the world to overcome.
Isnt the second post an example of a cop being well prepared? I mean isnt it an actual tactic to say something surprising/stupid/whatever to get someone to snap out of a meltdown?
I dont even think it was stupid i think bro was trying his best given no training and the circumstance. You see it all the time in bodycam footage they often dumb stuff down to the level of a parent scolding a kid. The cop was trying to sympathize while also pointing out hey this isn't a great solution without coming off as you can't do that because i said so or pretending to know whats going on in their head. Just straight to the point this isn't a great idea.
It is, the question is if it was intentional.
Based on every interaction I've ever had with a police officer (with one, very specific, exception), it was not intentional.
It didn’t snap them out of the meltdown. That’s not how any of this works. It would be like asking somebody eating ice cream if we can agree that ice cream is bad. People who are suicidal are rarely under the impression that those around them would be worse off if they were gone. Asking somebody who has convinced themselves that killing themselves would be a good thing this question is out of touch with the situation at best.
Thats my point though. Asking someone suicidal if killing themselves is bad is a nonsensical ridiculous question. In this case it made the OOP stop crying (and maybe spiraling, we dont know).
I mean, technically both are correct (:
training
You know which police department was nationally regarded as the most well trained PD in the country re: deescalation prior to 2020? Minneapolis.
Lack of training isn't the issue.
most well trained PD in the country
So barely any training at all.
I have more hours in several separate games (each) than these officers were required to take in training to become gun wielding thugs of the state.
You could be a video game wielding thug of the state, I guess?