on 21-04-2014 08:37 PM
Solved! Go to Solution.
on 21-04-2014 09:50 PM
on 21-04-2014 09:53 PM
Depends how well I "know them"
If it was someone whose health history I knew and i knew how to intervene (if appropriate) I would. With the person I have in mind who is likely to have a melt down in a public place, I'd isolate them, get them safe and call the ambos. and make sure i had jelly beans, an orange juice popper or a can of coke on standby.
If it was someone who had noth8ing to do with me, but I knew someone who knew what to do for them, I'd call that person to come and deal with it.
If it was just someone I knew in passing, I'd let the store management handle it.
on 21-04-2014 09:55 PM
@just*duff wrote:I would ignore them and mind my own business.
That is exactly what Mr Boris would say, he could be right but I never listen. I would worry about them, I'm hopeless.
on 21-04-2014 10:41 PM
on 22-04-2014 07:09 AM
I don't take this subject as a joke.
As a mother with a daughter diagnosed with bi polar, I once had someone call me to say my daughter had "lost" it. I advised her to call the nearest hospital and ask for the CAT team to come and assess her. (Crisis Assessment Team). If they don't have a CAT team they will usually get the police to deal with it.
27-04-2014 11:50 AM - edited 27-04-2014 11:50 AM
on 27-04-2014 06:17 PM
Yes, not funny at all.
on 27-04-2014 07:16 PM
on 28-04-2014 08:40 AM
Behaviour like you describe suggests the person has mental health issues.
Trying to get help for these people is difficult, we only have to see that they are in the community, sometimes homeless, don't take their medication and end up doing someone harm as we have seen before in the media, murder is not out of the question if they are in a psychotic state.
If mentally ill people are in the community then ther'es nothing any of us can do to help them as the powers that be don't want to know and shove them out into the community toot sweet.
If you have a mentally ill relation then you would know the difficulty in getting them help when they have a break. A stranger cannot help in this situation and the mentally ill have rights.
My suggestion is calling the police as they deal with this type of thing all the time but will they respond?
28-04-2014 01:17 PM - edited 28-04-2014 01:19 PM
I do believe the police would respond. The person could be a danger to themselves and others. And it's a total no no for the pharmacist to sedate as they don't know what meds this person could be on and how they would interract.
As for dealing with them it would depend on how well I knew them and if I felt they might trust me enough to let me talk to them.Otherwise I guess the police would be the obvious ones to contact as they know how to deal with these poor people. As someone said earlier it sounds like they could be on meds but just don't take them, as so many don't.