CatRyan
Striker
25 years ago my mate's mother tried to get hit by a tube train having climbed down on to the tracks. They picked her up, patted her down and sent her on her way. She just walked to the next station and climbed down more craftily at the very end of the platform and walked into the tunnel a bit.He wouldn’t necessarily have been admitted after the first one. I sat with more than one bloke who’d been off the Tyne bridge into the river, been fished and and waited 4 hours to see the CAT who said he’s fine and isn’t getting sectioned. They’re just taken back home and usually go on to do something similar in the following days.
The place of safety you speak of used to be custody but custody is no longer deemed an appropriate place for a person in crisis to be kept. A and E? Not really the craic to have a suicidal intoxicated person sat for hours in the middle of the rest of the people waiting to be seen.
Her note said "Better a loving mother than a mad wife"
My mate had been killed about 5 years earlier by a drunk driver. She was an only child.
I do think the social awareness has improved but the appropriate services have not.
Defund the police.