May is Mental Health Awareness Month
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:
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The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office would like to remind our community that May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and encourage those who may be struggling to seek support.
Mental health challenges can affect anyone, and those experiencing these struggles may sometimes feel isolated or alone. We want our community to know that you are not alone, and you matter.
Humboldt County has lost far too many community members to suicide, and we want to help spread the message that support is available. If you or someone you know is experiencing mental health challenges, it is important to talk with someone you trust about what you are feeling and going through. Reaching out for help is a sign of strength, and no one should have to face these struggles alone.
Don’t be afraid to seek help if you or someone you know needs support. Learning more about mental health and available resources is an important first step.
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, immediate help is available:
• Call or text 988
• Visit 988lifeline.org to chat with the 988 Suicide & Crisis LifelineLocal resources can also be found at https://nami-humboldt.org/
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is committed to supporting the well-being and safety of our community and encourages anyone in need to reach out for help and support.
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“When you feel like giving up, just remember why you held on for so long.” – Hayley Williams
People are crazy and times are strange. I’m locked in tight. I’m out of range. I used to care but things have changed. – Bob Dylan
Lip service
When the suffering alcoholics and addicts so afflicted with disease and mental derangement are left to DIE on our streets and in hoarded camps, hotels, and trap houses because according to mental health “they have the right to be addicted” so we leave the “call for help” up to the person with obviously impaired executive functioning, regardless what the sheriff might publish, in our county it is a death sentence.
Fuck this pollyanna do nothing announcement, the fake ass “mental health advocates” and every single law enforcement officer who REFUSE to address the disgusting state of so many souls in our community.
Like the story about the “missing” infant in today’s feed. Just another horrific death because of addiction, chaos,, delusions and no proactive engagement by LE whose duties are literally to serve and protect. I am fed up with the fakery in our society.
Blah blah mental health month.
While we have humans folded up like beach chairs, or babbling on street corners. Dont lie and say “We want our community to know that you are not alone, and you matter..” because the exact opposite is true.
There is no one more alone than someone afflicted with addiction and its comorbid mental afflictions .
Seriously, fuck off with this nonsense.
cliché like “reach out “ gonna get you a very sore and perhaps truncated arm. cliché’s like “you’re not alone”..Oh really cause I don’t see you keeping me company.. it’s just a gaslighting mind fuck.Cliché like “hang in there” reminiscent of a noose.
people just don’t give a shit when it comes to partying watching big screen, TVs recreating in general and having a bunch of hobbies that’s all much more important than Community Health and suicide as is enabling billionaires and not just billionaires but the upper middle class that the billionaires like to pit against and the working class so-called that they like to pit against in polished or vulnerable
Support is not available that is just a statement that makes the rest of the community feel like they don’t have to be bothered. Come on now, the suicide hotline has been around forever. Oh my God they changed it to three digits! Ted Bundy worked at a suicide hotline. Must be fun for someone like that to listen to people’s pain over and over again all day long. Those hotlines might be great for someone who spontaneously impulsively considering suicide or someone who has no one to talk with though they are surrounded with people, but obviously that suicide hotline isn’t doing much good or the rates wouldn’t be increasing. there are other hot lines like the San Francisco Mental Health Line who’s ours just got drastically cut and again it is like an assembly line talking to strangers for 10 minutes is not going to get somebody anywhere. You could do that in a grocery line albeit for less deep issues for 10 minutes for a deep issue it’s just in personal. It’s industrialized mental healthcare. It’s leaving the sick to the sick instead of a group of healthier people and people who are suffering working together to find solutions and get to know the people who need help.
One of the key precipitating factors in someone committing suicide is an encounter with law-enforcement. How strange than the number one thing people do is call the police to knock at your door. Senpervirons has no oversight. It’s a hell hole not because of the people working there but because of the people who run it and just like with homelessness most in the community, sweep community health issues under the rug of one agency or one person like Betty Chen or some one woman/man operation (dictatorship) or law-enforcement and don’t get their nose dirty or take risk to find out for themselves same with reporters. Nobody going undercover to find out anything you have a grievance with senpervirons . Guess who it goes to same- you have a great disagreement with the police guess who it goes to the police
The great ,lol, MIST team is rare and ethereal. A very Few people who are ironically prone to escalation themselve ; try role-playing for a minute and you’ll be surprised how quickly they feel threatened didn’t wanna call the police for their protection poor babies . It is evident in a short conversation. Things are easily interpreted as potentially violent that are not it’s like they and even adult protection services are primed to misread people in a rush, and assume the worst, rather than than take a minute toclarify when someone says something..
If you’re not there already heavily addicted in a walker no longer showering, shouting in the streets that’s about when someone might actually help you. Even Ihss people will immediately say. I’ve seen worse and then recount how they saw a one room apartment with cockroaches and things filled almost up to the ceiling that a woman slept in. Yeah OK, thanks for sharing. Meanwhile, can you help me?
How about instead of force medication and incarceration suicidal people were asked what would you need to want to live? And instead of being handled by law-enforcement or some who knows who singular *Therapist instead handled by a team to see about giving a person what they need to want to live ?
Dang hate how the edit pencil disappears cause cant fix things
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Ok hope my prior comment above this one gets cut cause this is a little better. Thank you Kim.
Cliche’s like “reach out “ gonna get you a very sore and perhaps truncated arm.
Cliché’s like “you’re not alone”..Oh really cause I don’t see you keeping me company.. And why are you saying that to people who are alone anyway…”Oh no you’re not!”
it’s just a gaslighting mind fuck.Cliché like “hang in there” reminiscent of a noose.
People/our culture just does not give a shit about community mental health vs partying watching big screenTVs , recreating in general and having a bunch of hobbies that’s all much more important than Community Health and suicide ; as is enabling billionaires and not just billionaires but the upper middle class that the billionaires like to pit against and the working class so-called that they like to pit against impoverished or vulnerable.
Support is not available. Call all the numbers, go undercover is you want to see oh and make sure you are a tough case like people on the street or people about to Jill themselves are (don’t even have to be -schizophrenic or sociopathic.
“There is help” that is just a statement that makes the rest of the community feel like they don’t have to be bothered. Come on now, the suicide hotline has been around forever. Oh my God they changed it to three digits! Ted Bundy worked at a suicide hotline. Must be fun for someone like that to listen to people’s pain over and over again all day long. Those hotlines might be great for someone who spontaneously impulsively considering suicide or someone who has no one to talk with though they are surrounded with people and need a stranger to vent to, but obviously ten – 30 min with a stranger who might just give you a list of resrouces that when you call are no longer in service or just another non-profit dictatorship or one who just is a referral service, they end up being referral services to other referral services. FOr someone seriously driven to commit suicide that suicide hotline isn’t doing much good or the rates wouldn’t be increasing. there are other hot lines like the San Francisco Mental Health Line who’s ours just got drastically cut and again it is like an assembly line talking to strangers for 10 minutes is not going to get somebody anywhere.You could do that in a grocery line albeit for less deep issues for 10 minutes for a deep issue it’s just in personal. It’s industrialized mental healthcare.
Insurance comapnies have long loved “quick fix” pills and DBT and CBT and peer groups, the latter leaving the sick to the sick instead of a group of healthier people and people who are suffering working together to find solutions and get to know the people who need help.
One of the key precipitating factors in someone committing suicide is an encounter with law-enforcement. How strange than the number one thing people do is call the police to knock at your door.
Senpervirons has no oversight. It’s a hell hole not because of the people working there but because of the people who run it and just like with homelessness most in the community, sweep community health issues under the rug of one agency or one person like Betty Chen or some one woman/man operation (dictatorship) or law-enforcement and don’t get their nose dirty or take risk to find out for themselves same with reporters. Nobody going undercover to find out anything you have a grievance with senpervirons, guess who it goes to same- you have a great disagreement with the police guess who it goes to the police
Oh great. ,lol, MIST team is rare and ethereal and comprised of very Few people who are ironically prone to escalation situations themselves ; try role-playing for a minute and you’ll be surprised how quickly they feel threatened wanna call the police for their protection poor babies . It is evident in a short conversation. Things are easily interpreted as potentially violent that are not it’s like they and even adult protection services are primed to misread people in a rush, and assume the worst, rather than than take a minute toclarify when someone says something.
If you’re not there already heavily addicted in a walker no longer showering, shouting in the streets that’s about when someone might actually help you. Even Ihss people will immediately say. “I’ve seen worse “ and then recount how they saw a one room apartment with cockroaches and things filled almost up to the ceiling that a woman slept in. Yeah OK, thanks for sharing. Meanwhile, can you help me?
How about instead of forced medication and incarceration suicidal people were asked “What would you need to want to live?” And instead of being handled by law-enforcement or some who knows who singular *Therapist instead handled by a team to see about giving a person what they need to want to live?
I am here for the passion and insight you brought to this discussion. Beneath the fury, you made genuinely thoughtful points. There is truth to how isolated and processed people become inside our assembly-line and impersonal mental health systems and I agree, they have become a cruel and bizarre form of “outsourced emotional customer service.”
Most importantly, you came with a genuinely good idea! You suggested asking the suffering “What would make life worth living for you?”
That is a far more profound and human question than the polished but useless mental health awareness and BS canned outreach language that people are fed.
Believe it or not, a little kindness goes a long way when dealing with psychoses.