guys … i am terrified. PLEASE reblog and like this if you aren’t able to help.
on the very very early hours of the morning yesterday, my little sister (age 21) was detained by police. she has severe mental health issues and has been having a psychiatric episode for a week or two now, getting worse each day. she did not harm anyone nor is she accused of harming anyone, but i don’t want to discuss what she is being accused of since it is an ongoing legal matter. my sister has major depression and her therapist also believes she has borderline personality disorder, though she has not been formally diagnosed yet. we also believe she is on the autism spectrum. during the incident she was arrested for, it is clear that my sister was hallucinating or experiencing a delusion. the detective who arrested her did not know she was mentally ill (he thought she was intoxicated but they found there was nothing in her system; it’s a mental episode!!) he later told me and my dad that he would have baker acted her instead of taking her to jail if he had known. she is now being held in jail. she has no criminal record whatsoever and i am certain she is terrified and scared. due to covid, we can’t visit or even talk to her because all video visits for the next two weeks are completely booked.
i have tried for two days now to try and get the jail to understand she is having a mental health crisis and needs to be transported to a mental health facility. her attorney is trying to get her to one. as you can imagine, it’s fucking hard to do that.
due to having to hire an attorney experienced in mental health, this situation is very very expensive. many thousands of dollars. but it’s a life or death situation for my sister and we have no choice. we are in huge debt for it now and trying our best to come up with any funds possible to pay for this and the future extensive mental health treatment my sister is going to need once transferred to a facility. if you are able, ANY AMOUNT, please please help. i swear every penny will be used to help my severely ill, sweet, brilliant, beautiful and kind little sister. i’m so scared and don’t know what else to do except constantly cry.
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i can give you my paypal via im if you need it instead. i dont want to post it because it has my full name and i want to protect my little sister’s identity.also, this post is from 5/2/21. im going to pin it until this situation is resolved at least a little. please continue to reblog, like, and help in any way you can.
