I don’t want to get too political in shower thoughts, but this would solve a lot of the hot button issues if more people just had safer and supportive environments to escape to and volunteers / paid professionals to help them on the other end.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
    22·
    2 years ago

    The city I live in has a “crisis services” unit for mental health crises, drug abuse related crises, welfare checks, psychiatric evaluation for hospitalization, and so on.

    • Therevev@lemm.ee
      10·
      2 years ago

      I’ve used one of these before. The main problem is that you’re often put on a hold for at least 72 hours.

      And while this does help get you out of that immediate crisis, missing 3 days of work and pay can actually put you in a worse position when you get out.

      And mental institution stays aren’t always super helpful for long-term mental health. Many of them are as bad, if not worse than being in jail.

    • lechatron@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      Same with my city. During the defund the police talk they made national news as an alternative to armed police response to mental health crisises.

    • jeffw@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      Pretty much everyone in the USA is served by mobile crisis teams. 988 will connect you to one