The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

Last night I got a crisis call for a family member who was suicidal. I was the only one available, so I took it.

Dealt with the local cops, then drove out there and got her to a hospital. Waited all night for the crisis team to arrive, and they still haven't seen her. She detoxed in the ER and wasn't seen by a provider except at the initial intake. About 2 hours ago we at least got moved to a locked psychiatric ER area rather than the regular unlocked and unregulated medical ER area. I did not feel she was watched/safe in the regular medical ER. She's finally safe and I can go home. Except now I worry because crisis still hasn't seen her and there are apparently no psych beds anywhere and I fear they're just going to release her.

I just got out of the underwear I've been wearing since Wednesday AM. I've "slept" on the floor of a hospital room and also across 2 regular chairs that I pushed together. I've had all of my personal belongings taken away with exception of the illegal rogue chapstick they didn't find in my shirt pocket. I was placed alongside my ward in a sensory deprivation room.

I'm exhausted, smelly and shocked at the state of our mental health care.

About 4 years ago an cousin of mine showed up off his meds. He made it back to Elko Nevada where he was locked up. It was Summer when He was here and at Thanks Giving I found out that He was still stuck in a Jail Cell in Elko....The system would not move him to a Psych unit until he was not "Dangerous" I got an inkling of how bad the mental health care system is from that

 

[chickadoodles]

Scg

 

[ronott1]

Most of the dealings with PP I have had very good courteous service. But for some reason they had it in their mind that since the charge was made by my PP debit card that I had done it. That is what the lady told me today. I told her that I had only used it at Walmart the previous weekend to get some things. And that I did not use it at any hardware store. And that someone must have scanned and sold my card number and made a copy of it. And the lady said that made sense. And only then did she agree to freeze my account. I told her I wanted them to find out who made the charge and prosecute them.
I told her if I had use my bank card that they would have stopped it the first time I reported it as fraud. I told her they advertise they are all about security and how they are there to protect you! Yet all they kept doing to try to get my money out of my bank.
I have had my PP account since 2004 and I hate this has happened. But I will never use a paypal account again. My bank resolved it in 5 minutes! PP took 4 days!
Ok so today I did go crazy on them, but dang how many times do you have to call and spend over 2 hours getting transferred and still can't get them to fix the issue.
I'm done with PP.

That is bad customer service for sure!

 

[chickadoodles]

My Facebook account got hacked from Nigeria.

Mine got hacked several years ago but fb caught it and fixed it quick.

 

[chickadoodles]

That is bad customer service for sure!

It's terrible but I really think they thought I did it! Even with me telling them I did not. When I told the lady I had only shopped in Selma AL. I think that is when her light bulb went off! Sad!

 

[pennyJo1960]

SCG I am so sorry you had to go through that .. I think the whole country has dropped the ball with mental care

 

[chickadoodles]

I usually use two to three words together with numbers for my passwords. I have them all in a notebook at my desk because sometimes I forget which one is for what. lol

 

[pennyJo1960]

We also keep a password book in my desk

 

[bruceha2000]

And finally told the woman that I only used my PayPal debit card at Walmart in Selma Al.

You have an actual card?

I'm exhausted, smelly and shocked at the state of our mental health care.

SO sorry SCG! I hope they get the crisis team in there soon.

But I will never use a paypal account again

I only use PayPal for online transactions at places I don't normally buy things. And I don't use their credit, I use my credit card.

The system would not move him to a Psych unit until he was not "Dangerous" I got an inkling of how bad the mental health care system is from that

Well that makes perfect sense! Sure, he'll get all better just by being locked in a cell.

It's terrible but I really think they thought I did it! Even with me telling them I did not. When I told the lady I had only shopped in Selma AL. I think that is when her light bulb went off! Sad!

My credit card companies (L.L. Bean MasterCard and Credit Union) have automated security that checks for "out of area" or "out of character" purchases and will contact us if anything looks amiss. And if they can't get ahold of us they will lock the account until they do. Yeah, have to make sure we let them know when we will be traveling.

 

[1muttsfan]

Quite a few years ago the state of Michigan got out of the mental health care business by closing all the state run mental hospitals. A dear friend of mine had been an orderly at the hospital in Traverse City. It was a huge facility, with dairy and crop farms where the patients worked. I asked him once what happened to all the people who were patients when the place closed down. He said, "The State relocated them. They either live under bridges or are dead". He would often see former patients in the obituaries.
I think you could add, or in jail. A friend up here works at the prison and he says a good number of the people there are probably not so much criminals as people with mental health issues. But we no longer have anyplace to put them, so they end up in jail.