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You're saying it in a douchey way, but you're right: There are other places to contact if you need to help, including the suicide hotline which is 988.
However, sometimes people need that sort of help and it shouldn't cost them $2500. People are definitely dying because they don't want to pay for an ambulance ride.
I mean calling 911 means you're probably going to get a police officer who's just as likely to shoot you as help you. And what is an ambulance going to do? They're not nearly as trained in mental health episodes . And hospitals for my experience generally treat mental health episodes like it's still the 50s. Without much consideration for the mentally ill basically. Getting charged that much is absolutely a failure of the system. But they weren't even using the right system in the first place.
Calling the suicide hotline which is free would have been a lot more practical then tryna get emergency room doctors to help you.
A good tip, many counties have what's called a mobile crisis unit. It's like an ambulance of mental health workers that come to your home and don't take you anywhere. Usually calling 988 you can ask them to help you find yours if you can't find it.
Even more proof that our system is fucked cause 911 should just defer to that for mental health but that they also called the wrong support line for what they needed.
In some places, but not all, 911 will dispatch them and usually these crisis teams are required to bring at least one officer with them.
Hopefully they can stop the officer from shooting the patient's dog.
Right, the cost is absurd, which I addressed. I'm not being a douche, the real world just isn't an internet bubble.