created by nchealthnews on 03/02/2025 at 16:44 UTC
169 upvotes, 9 top-level comments (showing 9)
Comment by Worried_Baker_9220 at 03/02/2025 at 18:15 UTC
28 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Mental health treatment in general needs an entire overhaul. Psych hospitals are generally really poor for any reasonable healing and mostly resemble glorified jails.
Comment by Historical_Clue_3142 at 03/02/2025 at 17:13 UTC
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As someone who has had to have another person involuntarily committed in North Carolina, I am so glad to hear this. I had my friend sent to South Carolina so that they would not have to go in shackles as is the current practice . The existing system is just sad and dehumanizing . You have this person who is already in distress and they're treated as criminals. Very glad the pilot is moving forward ! .
Comment by authorofjudgement at 03/02/2025 at 18:18 UTC
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When I had my first suicide attempt in 2018, the hospital discharged me to a local behavioral health unit… in a cop car. I was terrified they were going to cuff me, because I was warned that they would. Luckily the cop was a woman, and she knew my story, and she knew I was scared and absolutely no threat to her. So I wasn’t cuffed but I was scared.
Comment by notjawn at 03/02/2025 at 18:18 UTC
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This is a good thing. My late dad co-wrote the involuntary commitment law for NC and he was very active about how law enforcement needs better mental health training and de-escalation when it comes to calls about mental health. He would constantly throw out cases if it was obvious the officers responding only made the situation worse and turned it into a crime.
Comment by ligerqueen22 at 03/02/2025 at 20:14 UTC
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Thank goodness. Go in to an ED for depression and get paraded out in full shackles like a criminal for transport to a facility.
Comment by HalfBeatingHeart at 03/02/2025 at 19:33 UTC
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One thing from the article that kinda surprised me was taking about how much of their budget is spent on transporting patients…I dunno how all the other counties do it but when one of my relatives was transported the sheriffs dept damn sure sent a bill for the transportation costs that wasn’t cheap. So if the patients are billed for it arent they recouping their costs?
Comment by Complex_Mammoth8754 at 03/02/2025 at 20:48 UTC
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Fucking good. That shits traumatic
Comment by emmgibbzz6669 at 03/02/2025 at 21:16 UTC
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I was 12 years old when I was placed alone in the back of an inmate transport van to go to a psychiatric hospital. I was treated like a criminal and I will NEVER forget it. So glad they are doing away with this.
Comment by Western-Passage-1908 at 03/02/2025 at 21:07 UTC
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Ah, now the EMTs that get stuck transporting will just get their ass kicked by a patient instead.