agentndo

We usually recognize them and limit the time that they are allowed to talk with us, as they are doing it for social anchoring and are not currently having an emergency. We treat them with the same respect as everyone else though :)

I work for a mental health org and I know that some of our own members are 'social callers' and I sometimes get complaints from crisis workers at different crisis lines or warm lines on their habitual calling as well as complaints from the members at how they were treated rudely because they weren't 'in crisis'. Thank you for being respectful in how you remind them that you need to help other people and have to go.

Have you considered an extremely low carb diet like the ketogenic diet (/r/keto)? It's between 20g to 50g or less per day, typically. I've been doing around 20g carbs for about a year or so, with a lot of positive health changes. It sounds like it would help a lot if you're hypersensitive to carbs and the resulting blood glucose changes.

That's really shitty and I'm sorry that happened to you. I work in mental health and some of it is crisis work, handling the situation like that is really not okay, I wouldn't personally go that route unless you said you were getting off the phone and were completely unwilling to go to a hospital or crisis facility voluntarily.

Did you speak to this crisis counselor at all before the police arrived, or did they take some info from your friend, not call you, and then just send the police?

Yeah I think the 36 hours should have been about 2 to 8 hours, but I can imagine that certain areas have really terrible mental/behavioral health networks. I know police get shit on a lot, but police are really not trained to deal with mental health crises, they tend to treat that population the same way they deal with drunks and drug abuser calls, because of the co-morbidity of substance abuse and mental illness. This does seem to be changing, however, as police in my area are starting to coordinate more with hospitals and crisis workers in a couple of different ways.

You're welcome, thanks for sharing your experience.. I have very few discussions with people not currently in the system. It helps me to advocate for people more effectively when people voice things, good or bad.

I have more energy, better sleep patterns and rarely feel fatigued upon waking. I probably have better mood and improved mental clarity, but that's difficult to say definitively. I started it for weight loss, now that I'm very close to my ideal weight I will probably continue the same diet because it seems like a good fit. I don't find the diet constricting at this point and I can eat a 'normal meal' every now and then and adapt back quickly, some people get mild upset stomach depending on what they eat though.

I'll be honest, the decreased alcohol tolerance is also a benefit.