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Originally Posted by PugMom
so easy to say unless you're dealing with it. i cross that path everyday, & cannot bring myself to send someone i love to one of those places. it's a busy enviorment for sure, but also very lonely
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I totally agree with you. And you said it in a more compassionate way than I could think of responding to that statement. Seriously, because you don’t think the person is acting in a conventional manner, they need to be locked up? Are we back in the 1950s? Kids may scream and act immaturely out in public, and, unfortunately, so may people who are having cognitive issues. My mother screamed daily, multiple times during the day, that we had kidnapped her, because we no longer allowed her to go walk outside by herself, or if we didn’t take her out to the square every night. (Do note, she rarely went to the square before that.).
Life happens, and we should all try to handle it as compassionately as possible.
And, to the original poster’s comments, I don’t blame someone responding to someone screaming “I’m being kidnapped”. One has to take the side of safety. But, yes, the caretaker should have had some kind of identification, especially if they’re going to be taking the patient out in public.