If you don't want cops coming into your quiet neighborhood and rapping, rapping on your chamber door to ensure you're not going to go all Hunter S. Thompson on a Sunday afternoon, here are a few things to remember. A checklist, if you will, of actions not to take:
Number one action to avoid: Do NOT put in a call to a random social worker from your house and say you were about to walk out the door and "Do something. For real." until the phone rang.
Number two action to avoid: Do NOT let the social worker know you don't have a car. Or friends. Or family. Or knowledge as to the location of the nearest emergency room (which happens to be walking distance from your house.)
Number three action to avoid: Do NOT go on and on about your depression and how you just can't take it anymore
and finally
Number four action to avoid: Do NOT beg the social worker to leave the cops out of it.
For the love of God, if you don't do anything else, mind the last one there. We're highly susceptible to reverse psychology, you see--not unlike your average six-year-old. Not only that, even if we believe you're serious when you say you don't want The Law to magically appear on your doorstep, we're going to play the Freud card anyway. Besides, some of us are just plain feisty, obstinate and unreasonable. We have issues. We're co-dependent. We believe we can SAVE you.
Oh, and one more teeny, tiny consideration. It's almost inconsequential, but I'm just going to throw it out there for giggles: There's this omnipotent, guiding wisdom among all professionals--wisdom dispensed so frequently that it becomes a mantra. A law. A commandment.
To keep those nasty attorneys at bay
(everyone chant the letters now.....)
C Y A !
So. If you take all those numbered actions up there, throw them in a bowl, toss in a half a cup of the-social-worker-doesn't-want-to-lose-her-license, add a dash of hopelessness and a pinch of anxiety and thoroughly combine them, guess what?
Said social worker is going to call 911 on your derriere and you get a visit from local law enforcement.
For real. ->
Read the complete post at http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/tXCM/~3/478363525/ok-look-heres-skinny.html
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8 Dec 2008 11:00 AM
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