Defending against someone who is mentally ill

[The Annoyed Man]

Stop the threat - my safety / wellbeing is at the top of my list...someone that's mentally ill may actually be *more* of a threat than a "normal" person. Many folks with mental illness are violent (and many are not). My best bud was bi-polar. When he was violent it was BAD.

This is pretty much my way of thinking as well. I have family members who are very bipolar and for the most part they aren't violent they are just highly emotional, but I can see where that emotion could turn into violence very quickly. And having been a EMT for a few years working for a private transport company I have seen patients both elderly and younger who had mental issues get very violent. My wife who also did the same job actually had an older man choke her to the point that she nearly blacked out. I told her job or no job, A little 100 lb 5 ft 2 female getting choked out by a man twice her size even elderly would have been shot.

I have found that 10mg of Versed misted up their nostrils is highly effective in getting them safely to a E.R.

I’ll be over directly, and you don’t even need to take me to the hospital.

They used Versed on me during my cataract surgery, for which I was calmly awake the whole time. It’s a remarkable drug.

[crazy2medic]

If the versed hadn't worked, the fall back would have been Ketamine!