- Category: Crisis Response, Involuntary Commitment Barriers
- Tag(s): Abuse in a Facility or Jail, Anosognosia / Lack of Insight, Severe Deterioration
- State: MI
My loved one called police for help for months, (7/10 refusal to go to hospitals) when my friends parents would be taken in a heart beat.
Instead local dispatch posts indirect jokes about my mom to FB in October; and the retaliation pursued for months before and after.
Let alone discrimination and retaliation from EVS and other healthcare outlets too.
Countless lawyers can’t take it.
DOJ/DHS did nothing. And is currently lost in health system to healthcare proxy, and aggressive careless hospital staff.
Too much to type beyond those.
*Each story is shared by someone impacted by untreated SMI, lightly edited for clarity, never for meaning.
THE ASK
The author’s message for legislators:
Police need to adhere to code MCCL 330.1946 and take their position seriously, way less accidents will happen. Not just police either.
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