A friend shared this on Facebook today and said it made him laugh.
It doesn’t make me laugh. And yeah, you can say, Wolfie, you are being too sensitive. But you can shove that comment right up your ass.
It doesn’t make me laugh because, over the past 3 or 4 years, I could have greatly benefited from a 72 hour psych hold. More than once, if we are being honest. There were a handful of times that I even sat in my own car, debating if I was going to drive myself to the hospital and request such a hold.
And you know why I never did?
Because I knew there is no way I could ever financially recover from the bill that would come after a 72 hour hold, that may or may not have even helped me.
Even with insurance, a 72 hour hold can still cost a person upwards of $20,000.
Do you have that kind of cash laying around? Especially during the Pandemic? I sure as shit don’t have.
So yeah, I’m not laughing when someone jokes about using a 72 hour psych hold as a vacation. I had to hold onto my sanity and my life more times than I care to count, most times white-knuckled and by the skin of my teeth because I couldn’t afford the HELP I so desperately NEEDED.
And the fact that some people I knew and loved, who could have greatly benefited from that same help, but didn’t survive their fights? Those whose names now grace my Beloved Dead candle that will be lit for Samhain? Those whom also couldn’t afford that treatment people are joking about? Yeah....tell me again that I’m being too sensitive.
