[Noisebridge-discuss] dealing with a troubled young lady? Discuss it on today's member meeting?

[Gian Pablo Villamil]

I've been on the phone with her father (who is in Kansas,
unfortunately). He thinks she is off her meds and should be back in
the hospital (John George Psychiatric Pavilion).

In her condition, while she is not violent or nasty, she is
disruptive. She keeps asking everyone to pretend to be her roommate
and get money from her sister, which is a very non-good situation.

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk at brevity.org> wrote:
> On 8/10/10 11:40 AM, Quinn Norton wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 10, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Frantisek Apfelbeck wrote:
>>
>>> Hello to All,
>>> Well I've met this girl yesterday, directly after her arrival to Noisebridge.
>
> FYI she has shown up to Noisebridge before and was removed by police (at
> the request of other Noisebridge members who were present, and who had
> medical training).
>
> I do not know anything about her specifically. I can tell you what I saw
> that night.
>
> She had made a lot of confused/erratic statements to other
> Noisebridgers. In the informed judgment of said NoiseBridge regular she
> was showing signs of schizophrenia. She was wearing a hospital bracelet
> (a hospital in Berkeley if I remember correctly).
>
> She was sitting at a computer terminal quietly when the police showed
> up. When the police asked her about how she got there or where she
> wanted to go she started speaking loudly about somebody else, who I
> later realized was herself in the third person. Like "SHE HAS TO STAY ON
> THE COMPUTER AND FIND HER SISTER". There was some task she was trying to
> accomplish involving Facebook.
>
> The police officers removed her gently but firmly although she was
> struggling and continuing to try to explain herself all the way down the
> stairs. I don't know what happened after that.
>
> I was rather shocked to see the police in Noisebridge, but in fairness,
> they dealt with the situation about as gently as could be imagined.
>
> It's up to NB if they want the space to be a haven for people who don't
> conform to the usual standards of sanity. I have to admit she didn't
> seem particularly dangerous or even troublesome to others or herself,
> but I think if she were to come regularly to NB it probably wouldn't end
> very well. Even if she doesn't disrupt others, she could also be taken
> advantage of. And if she ever does become a problem, I'm not sure
> Noisebridgers have the correct training to contain her without harming
> her (and even then, this opens NB members to legal scrutiny if she
> somehow harms herself or others).
>
> --
> Neil Kandalgaonkar     <neilk at brevity.org>
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