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My best friend just called me from another state. Her brother is having a mental health crisis, and she doesn't know what to do. He lives in Florida, but has apparently traveled to Louisiana where he is in a hotel with his dog.
I'm going to probably mess this up, so I'll just apologize at the outset. He's 69 years old and is a diabetic. As far as she knows, he did not have any issues up until a couple of years ago when he fell in a store and struck his head.
So he's having delusions where he's seeing bugs, and has been saying some outlandish things. What I've done so far is to send her a link to NAMI. I also suggested that she call her brother's partner to see if he can at least give my friend her brother's doctor's name so she can try to get in touch with him. Her brother's partner is apparently a drunken bully, so the home situation was not good, which hasn't helped anything.
I see on NAMI that she could call the police in Louisiana and ask them to do a welfare check and hopefully take him to a hospital, but of course with COVID-19, who knows what might happen. I'm sorry to say that I don't have a lot of confidence that the police would be helpful, so I don't want to tell her to actually call them, but figured I'd let her read what it says on the site and make her decision.
Does anyone have any advice or insight on this? I appreciate any help.
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