Lehigh County Crisis Intrvntn

I have lost a brother to suicide and I know many people who struggle with mental health. I have been hospitalized and I have been through multiple programs for mental health struggles that are trauma related. I’ve found that mostly, the social struggles emerge from how people treat you when you’re different, and won’t agree with their narrative because your brain chemistry doesn’t allow you to lie.

Last year, my brother who is also high functioning (invisible) autistic & intelligent had a very traumatic experience with LV crisis. I want to be fair; I do understand that while the system has flaws like everything else that many people working at places like this mean well and want to help.

My brother had a very bad reaction to medication his dr. gave him along with years of living with “concerned” and unfaithful wife who collected his 6 figure income & was cheating on him for years in secret. Everyone in his social group knew & it was a joke about whether he’d find out or discover he was autistic first. Pretty sure some @-holes were placing bets on this.

Bucks County Domestic Relations version of “justice” for him is to take double the amount of support required by law & not inform him of what was legally required. They did not advocate for him or help him at all. He was demonized by his ex wife who also took out a big life insurance policy on him at the same time & they allowed it.

The same court claimed that $400 a month for 2 kids was all that they could give me as a single mother solely supporting the kids myself - since it took them several years to adequately enforce the support order.
Clearly, the courts do not exist to uphold actual justice, at least in our experience.

I believe this has played heavily into his decline in mental health. He was sorely taken advantage of right after losing our brother.

My brother called some of these people, trying understand the betrayal of them all knowing & not saying anything to him. These people called me to ramp up my concerns; end goal is to silence my brother because he’s telling truths they’re not proud of.

These people are now using the “justice” system to cover up their abusive treatment of my brother and I.

Crisis center is called. Rightfully people were concerned about his behavior, which I continually told people it’s a bad reaction to the medication he is taking! FOUR state troopers!! forcibly remove him from the only safe space he has left, inject him with drugs, and put him in an ambulance & while there, one of the people pretends he is going to choke him to scare him. They take him to the hospital & locked him in a padded room like an animal.
Hospital did not listen to me about the medication being a trigger; they sent him home with a 30 day supply of the same meds and told him to keep taking them.

Additionally, his ex called crisis a second time, which resulted in state troopers arguing with him over the phone & implying he isn’t “actually autistic” and triggering the terror he experienced the first time around.

I did talk with Jason from crisis, he acknowledged the difficulties of the situation and that my brother had a very bad experience. I respect this and I appreciate the gesture and I do hope that this is something that can be used to improve assistance in some way. Although, I think “help” for someone like my brother (due to gossip and him speaking truths) is to use your center to drive him to suicide.

I do understand the urgency and the complexities of suicide and people struggling with such a loss. The system is severely ill-equipped to help high functioning autistic people with CPTSD.

I think you should think about a screening process to weed out people who can use your service as a way to control others. It’s an easy out from any guilt “I want him to get help” and sends a strong message that the only “help” available is “protecting” the ex, the social group, and system who did a large amount of the damage. If you’re going to re-traumatize people, where do you think they will be getting help from if they can’t trust you?

Marcus Camacho led me to believe that I was going to go to the hospital to talk to a doctor and it would only take an hour. I was hospitalized for one week. One year later and I’m still processing this traumatic event in therapy.

I couldn’t be more disappointed from the “help” I received from Marcus. I called about a family member in crisis. 40 minutes later Marcus finally called back and told me that my report could not be anonymous (as I was previously assured) and refused to let me speak with anyone else other than him. He was repeatedly rude and insensitive during one of the most heartbreakingly difficult times of my life, and he made it very clear that I should tell everyone who might need help to steer clear from this “resource.”

My family member who called the crisis line for help is now sitting in a hospital hallway for 10 hours. No doctor has seen him, no bloodwork, no IV. Nothing. And, they dropped him off at a hospital that cannot help him, but they are holding him until crisis "calls them" He is stuck there until I can pick him up and take him to a real hospital like LVHN where they actually help people. Don't call the Lehigh County Crisis if you actually need help. You could die waiting.

Zero stars for this waist of of taxpayers money. You call to have a welfare checkup on someone and they ignore you. Another waist of Lehigh County Money.

This place deserves to be shut down