I told you I work in the specoal education field. Yes, my work involves teens and adults who require long-term instotutional and/or group home and psychiatric care. |
He should've sought treatment before he got to that point. This guy was clearly a lost cause. I don't condone the fact that the left him in the cell but he was clearly not well. I honestly do not think that there is a place in society for people at this level. They are too violent and dangerous. |
Fairfax County DP who just went thru this 4 months ago with a neighbor, who seems to have either had his break or stopped taking medication after his mother died a year ago.
He started standing in street and shouting insults at people, including my elderly parents when they came to dinner. Would also howl late at night, post threatening odd messages in neighborhood social media. In his case the house is paid off but his parents are dead. Local family ignores the situation, wants others to handle. Our HOA did visit, got country crisis team as well. He spent 3 weeks away in treatment facilities, is back and seems better. |
For everyone posting that they have mentally ill family, ask yourself if believe your family member is living their best life talking to themselves and howling in their backyard all day. The reason this is disturbing is because its sad to see someone living this way.
How much help this man would actually receive is questionable, but I would begin taking steps to alert mental health services in Fairfax County. This family is probably doing their best, but more support is needed. People would not tolerate a dog outside crying all day in a neighbor's lawn so I am not sure why another human should be allowed to be in so much pain and ignored by all. |
+1 I agree |
You need to educate yourself about what is going on in jails and psychiatric facilities and consider whether that is anyone's "best life." Yes, how much help he will receive is "questionable." That is why you don't call the police on a person in this situation. |
That's great. It has nothing to do with your qualifications for having an opinion about what anyone else should be forced to do because you think it's a "better life" than the life they are living now. If your services and proposed course of treatment can't be made attractive enough to draw these folks in voluntarily, and keep them there, you have a model that is either going to require an even bigger carceral state to achieve or you have a model that will never work. Maybe both. |
I'm not going to argue with you about my qualifications or the need for some individuals to have decisions made for them. |
Yep. Move or keep your kids indoors. Have them play at a nearby playground or whatever. |
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6852683/ I'm not seeing the evidence for there being no danger here. It certainly seems rational and borne out by the above statistics. Quoting platitudes about statistics that lump all mental illnesses together, like someone with mild depression or anxiety is similar to a paranoid schizophrenic, is not helpful. My brother went to high school with three unrelated guys who developed paranoid schizophrenia after graduation. Two of the three killed other people in the midst of delusions and are locked up at Clifton T. Perkins. I don't see why OP is being attacked for being concerned about this neighbor's behavior. |
I posted pages back about my brother and told them to call the police if he’s violating a noise ordinance or a danger. No, no one in that situation is living their best life. I also described our history and how we called the police several times but have been unable to get our family member any help. You never stop trying but it’s close to impossible to get any help if the person is not willing. |
Seriously go F yourself. They are not a danger to anyone but themselves, they aren’t organized enough to break into your effing house. You are perpetuating damaging myths about something you don’t understand. I wish there were fences, dogs and alarms against aholes like you. |
? Why would they get arrested? They need medical treatment not a criminal arrest. Police are trained to know the difference stop wasting their time. Bunch of dicks on here. |
Yes, please please move and “secure your kids” so the rest of us don’t have to be exposed to you. |
How about they make a decision about what’s a better life when they’re medicated and rational instead of in the grip of a psychotic episode. People are such effing ignorant-yet-opinionated idiots about psychosis. It’s not diversity day it’s a fu*king medical problem and it is inhumane not to get them treatment. |