wellness check still a reputable tool among agencies that purport to serve mentally ill and disabled people
thanks for rolling the dice on whether your clients get a cop who hear "wellness check" and decide they havent done enough consequence free assaults lately i guess
i have spent all week fucked up because my therapist referred to my behavior trying to get help when i was in apocalyptic pain as strongarming his org
with what power, bitch? if you send a cop to me and i get shot nobody would even lose their job. i was not mean, i did not fight anyone, i simply refused to do things that would have hurt me! i asked for what i needed and got frustrated when the answer was "no. can we do anything else for you" every time because they wanted to play 20 questions with someone who could barely think instead of actually lay out what they could do
i was trying to express to him the fear i have of organizations that wield violence they do not even see as violence, and he told me an anecdote about a client who suffered electroshock torture back in the day but still manages to trust the org.
i told him that some of what drives my fear of the world is the kind of groups that right now are trying to push shock torture as a cure for autism and queerness.
he told me he thought it was illegal and was stunned to learn it was not. what a fucking punchline.
