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

[Sai Emrys]

To back up what Christie said: the level of fucked-up-ness required to
get 5150ed varies.

Basically someone has to be either clearly imminently suicidal, or so
fucked up that they probably can't provide for their own food or
shelter even in some extremely minimal sense (viz. our resident
"homeless"). She does not sound like she qualifies.

Given that someone both has contact with her father and the name of
the hospital, I think it wouldn't be out of line to notify her
attending psychologist of the situation (e.g. by voicemail). Any
further care-taking is their joint responsibility, not ours, IMO, and
in any case the psychologist will be in a far more qualified position
to suggest appropriate action (or lack thereof).

Also, I've seen nothing mentioned that indicates she's actually
dangerous in any way. She's hyper, a bit incoherent (to those who
posted), has some sort of family issues. So what? Unless that's
causing her acute distress (I haven't seen someone indicate that) or
endangering herself or others (eg out of it enough to act in false
self defense against hallucinated aggression), let her be as she is.

Of course, mere politeness can still apply, but that's by just the
same (rather libertarian, "don't bother other people") norms of
behavior we expect of each other per usual. If she is unable to be
civil, that'd be another matter - but again, no evidence of that.


So, tl;dr: tell her shrink, but chill out and leave her be unless
there's an actual danger. We're all fucked up in our own speshul ways.
:-P

- Sai