scary experience today

[mommasita]

I guess it wouldn't bother me very much.. I live near a Psychiatric hospital, and have seen/heard all kinds. I don't mind at all, and my children have been taught quite a bit just by exposure..

I agree about not making eye contact, and don't engage.. However, I don't think you need a lawyer to tell you that.. Or you shouldn't, especially coming from a large city..

"don't engage the crazies" as you put it, is ignorant in my opinion.. They are ill, and in the blink of an eye anyone can be that way.. Some of these patients are the kindest souls, and have had been dealt terrible blows..

 

[Lorelei Lee]

I guess it wouldn't bother me very much.. I live near a Psychiatric hospital, and have seen/heard all kinds. I don't mind at all, and my children have been taught quite a bit just by exposure..

I agree about not making eye contact, and don't engage.. However, I don't think you need a lawyer to tell you that.. Or you shouldn't, especially coming from a large city..

"don't engage the crazies" as you put it, is ignorant in my opinion.. They are ill, and in the blink of an eye anyone can be that way.. Some of these patients are the kindest souls, and have had been dealt terrible blows..

I do understand. I had an aunt who struggled with mental illness throughout her life. On her meds she was a wonderful person. Off her meds, she was a danger to herself and others.

Run into someone like that on the street and you have no idea how they will react. My sister handled more than one case where bad things happened from a chance encounter.

 

[mommasita]

I do understand. I had an aunt who struggled with mental illness throughout her life. On her meds she was a wonderful person. Off her meds, she was a danger to herself and others.

Run into someone like that on the street and you have no idea how they will react. My sister handled more than one case where bad things happened from a chance encounter.

I agree about not knowing how they will react.. I also have many stories about bad encounters, I know too well how they can go.. I just would never call them crazies, in any way shape or form..

i get to know quite a few of them, and there are lots of professionals where things went sour.. Doctors, Lawyers, etc...

 

[lisaviolet]

Lorelei Lee, I don't get it.

I'm truly confused. Are you regularly through the city? I think you are, you mention the city. It's just not an abnormal occurrence for city living.

And I have looked many mentally ill people in the eye and well....... So that I didn't quite understand either.

 

[zoo2tycoon]

I think you are overreacting and should have just ignored it and walked away...
Honestly even thinking of talking to the cops
Judging someone by how they look too

 

[Lorelei Lee]

Lorelei Lee, I don't get it. I'm truly confused. Are you regularly through the city? I think you are, you mention the city. It's just not an abnormal occurrence for city living. And I have looked many mentally ill people in the eye and well....... So that I didn't quite understand either.

I have commuted to and/or lived in the city since 1984.

Years ago you would have seen a lot of homeless in Penn, on the subways, etc., including many who should have been in psychiatric hospitals. Most of them were harmless. A few were frightening. There was one woman I used to see on the E train, carrying on conversations with the voices in her head. Most days the conversations were pleasant. One day there was a nasty, angry argument. And then I didn't see her anymore.

You don't see it as often these days. The problem hasn't gone away, it's just not as visible,

If this guy were merely talking to himself I probably would never have noticed him. But he hit me. Not hard, but he actually hit me. That's not normal. That's not the kind of thing you shrug off.

A few years ago a friend of mine was waiting for the Light Rail in Jersey City. The man standing next to her was stabbed to death by a psych patient off his meds.

No, my getting hit on the arm isn't anywhere in that league. I wouldn't make such a claim.

But being hit by a stranger threw me for a loop. And my sister, who has put a few people in jail for similar behavior, agreed that the situation was alarming.

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[lisaviolet]

I have commuted to and/or lived in the city since 1984.

Years ago you would have seen a lot of homeless in Penn, on the subways, etc., including many who should have been in psychiatric hospitals. Most of them were harmless. A few were frightening. There was one woman I used to see on the E train, carrying on conversations with the voices in her head. Most days the conversations were pleasant. One day there was a nasty, angry argument. And then I didn't see her anymore.

You don't see it as often these days. The problem hasn't gone away, it's just not as visible,

If this guy were merely talking to himself I probably would never have noticed him. But he hit me. Not hard, but he actually hit me. That's not normal. That's not the kind of thing you shrug off.

A few years ago a friend of mine was waiting for the Light Rail in Jersey City. The man standing next to her was stabbed to death by a psych patient off his meds.

No, my getting hit on the arm isn't anywhere in that league. I wouldn't make such a claim.

But being hit by a stranger threw me for a loop. And my sister, who has put a few people in jail for similar behavior, agreed that the situation was alarming.

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I didn't say a thing about shrugging it off, just that to me it's not abnormal for city living ( I would have shrugged it off, by the way, but I do know that everyone is different in the way that they take things in in the moment.). I said I was confused that you seemed so alarmed about it all, that's how it read. And continues to read. And I thought I knew that you lived in the city.

I travel to NYC. I did notice the lack of homelessness on the streets/sidewalks, in comparison to Toronto and openly wondered where the heck they are. No sarcasm, openly wondered if NYC (Manhattan, I'm talking) has a better system in place or something more suspect.

But I am only a visitor to NYC and I have had incidents to walk away from in the subway or avoid. Didn't bother me at all because I'm a city girl but still had them.

 

[Lorelei Lee]

I didn't say a thing about shrugging it off, just that to me it's not abnormal for city living ( I would have shrugged it off, by the way, but I do know that everyone is different in the way that they take things in in the moment.). I said I was confused that you seemed so alarmed about it all, that's how it read. And continues to read. And I thought I knew that you lived in the city. I travel to NYC. I did notice the lack of homelessness on the streets/sidewalks, in comparison to Toronto and openly wondered where the heck they are. No sarcasm, openly wondered if NYC (Manhattan, I'm talking) has a better system in place or something more suspect. But I am only a visitor to NYC and I have had incidents to walk away from in the subway or avoid. Didn't bother me at all because I'm a city girl but still had them.

You can thank Rudy Guiliani. wWhen he was mayor he cleaned up NYC. in recent years the homeless have become more visible, but not like it was in the 80's.

I've been poked, pushed and stepped on in the subways, I've been jostled on the streets. It's part of dealing with crowds. Being hit, deliberately, is not part of the normal routine.

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