Here’s the latest from Practicing Mental Illness: This week a man with bipolar disorder was threatening people, including police officers, with a knife. The officers shot him, he died, and my city of Philadelphia is suffering for it. Unfortunately the story reported by most media focuses more on the fact that the man was black and the officers were white than on the fact that the man was dealing with a mental illness and the officers were unprepared to diffuse the situation. I wrote this editorial for the website
As someone who's MANIC episodes have ended 3/4 times by police intervention I can attest to how scary the situation can become. Mr. Wallace's death is a tragedy and its sad that I have to say this is a very brave take on an event that caused societal madness.
Everyone cares about mental health until you start showing symptoms.
Thanks for writing this George.
As someone who's MANIC episodes have ended 3/4 times by police intervention I can attest to how scary the situation can become. Mr. Wallace's death is a tragedy and its sad that I have to say this is a very brave take on an event that caused societal madness.
Everyone cares about mental health until you start showing symptoms.
Thank you. So sad. So unnecessary.
Wonder if mental health practitioners can do ongoing in-service trainings for each precinct?Maybe even know (about) the folks in their neighborhoods.