You are watching a wellness check conducted by the Macomb County Sheriffs Department. The Sheriffs were responded to a petition to hospitalize me written by the Detroit VA based on a painting I did on facebook live. The Sheriff’s department was told by the Detroit VA that I was a suicidal subject that was a danger to myself. When the police arrived I was actively painting on facebook like and was wearing headphones. I didn’t hear the door knock but I did hear the door opening. The officers I spoke to were empathic and made a good judgment to go against the Detroit VA’s wishes to not hospitalize me. Afterward, I drove to Michaels to get more paint and talked to the Detroit VA security over the phone. They were informed by someone in the Detroit VA that I actively attempting to hang myself on the VA premises, all the while I was painting live on facebook with a handful of viewers. The Sheriff’s department called me back later that day because the Detroit VA was still urging the Sherrif’s department to hospitalize me. Luckily the Macomb Sherrif’s department requires that petitions for hospitalization be delivered in person. The Detroit VA did not go this extra step to follow thought on the petition, and I lucky that they had a moment of laziness. In the same week, the Chief of Psychiatry sent me a letter in the mail terminating my mental health services. The week after that my psychiatrist reviews to refill medication that I was prescripted that lead to a severe anxiety attack. I would really like quality mental health care from the Detroit VA. I do not feel I should abandon the Detroit VA for the Ann Ann Arbor VA as the Chief of Mental Health suggested. How could the head of mental health at the Detroit VA think so little of their services that they would encourage me to go to another VA?

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