My Experience With a Police "Welfare Check"

[daredtowork]

4. I'm not going to flame you

I appreciate the police were doing their jobs.

My point is the police shouldn't have been the ones to dothat job.

If the people at my medical clinic were so "concerned" about me, they could have called me to check that way first. They could have emailed. They could have even dropped by.

That's what I meant when I said I had invested (re: wasted) a lot of time in building personal relationships with these people. Not only should they have been able to understand my situation (which I talked about in a women's group weekly and to a social worker byweekly), they had previously felt free to call me, and even email me, for their stuff. I suppose "casual hanging out" is okay when done on their terms, but full professionalism has to kick in once I become a "welfare check"! That's the problem. There was the kind of relationship there where they could have just followed up with me instead of calling the police on me.

Somebody else mentioned that the law requires health professionals to call the police if I could be a danger to my self or others, blah, blah, blah...

If this is the case, why were the police showing up to do their "welfare check" three days after I had last had any contact with my medical clinic? By the "danger" theory I would have slashed my wrists or taken various and sundry hostages three days ago!

No, I was just puttering around my home, not even fully dressed, when the police knocked on my door. They knock very loud, by the way.