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Posted: 24 Apr 2018

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Another abandoned office. This is a very solid county building. It was first the county home for developmentally disabled adults. Then, after a long vacancy, my branch of county mental health moved into it after a client burned down our building. It was in the middle of the night and he had just gottten out of jail. True story.

It was my turn for crisis assessment the next day, so I had to go see him in jail. That was one entertaining visit. The sheriff didn't let him out that time. ;-b

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 Sami Serola (inactive)
Sami Serola (inactiv… club
Scary story! =O

And that happens also here (and supposedly everywhere) =/

We call them as "habitual offenders". I suppose it can be a cry for help, but it is often also an act of finding it easier get along in the stressful society when being jailed.
6 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv… club
Yes, it's all of those things, and in that case it was also hallucinations. Voices told him to do it after he stopped taking his medication. It's a constant problem. Of course, after it happened, there were months of jokes about it among the staff.
6 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to Diane Putnam club
We definitely need humor to cope with those issues. But the problem is that there are not enough resources to deal with psychological issues. Then some in desperate need even fake the symptoms or do criminal acts to "get inside".
6 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv… club
I've known a few cases like that, but the majority of my clients preferred to live without rules. So, they would either live outside (summer only!) or in the homeless shelter. If they would remain stable, they could get a government-subsidy for rent.
6 years ago.
 Gudrun
Gudrun club
Really scary! It also is a very fine line between giving them another chance/not wanting to spoil their lives forever and the safety of other people.
6 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Gudrun club
Yes, I was always walking the line between helping and standing back so they could help themselves. Anything could happen, good or bad. Always some kind of trouble. Often no solutions, just being on stand-by for them, because they're people in pain.
6 years ago.

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