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An Island Of The Mind
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00:02:04Oh, no.
00:02:06You don't want to commit suicide, do you?
00:02:08Well, I don't want to commit suicide.
00:02:12What does that mean, winner?
00:02:15Winner.
00:02:18You wrote that?
00:02:20Yeah.
00:02:21Oh.
00:02:22You are a winner.
00:02:37Hold that for me out there like that.
00:02:40Ready?
00:02:41One, two, three, go.
00:02:44Ready?
00:02:44One, two, three, go.
00:02:54I got it.
00:02:55You got it?
00:02:55Okay.
00:02:55Right on your hands.
00:03:00There you go.
00:03:01Alright.
00:03:02Thank you so much.
00:03:03Oh, lucky we ran into you.
00:03:04If we get you into the shelter, are you going to stay?
00:03:07Yes.
00:03:07Are you sure?
00:03:08Yes.
00:03:09You just left two, two birds.
00:03:11Huh?
00:03:11You just left two, two birds.
00:03:13Yeah.
00:03:13Three days ago.
00:03:15How come?
00:03:37Do you drink at all?
00:03:39No.
00:03:39Not at all?
00:03:40No.
00:03:41Do you use any drugs?
00:03:42No, no drugs.
00:03:43No drugs either.
00:03:44Good.
00:03:44Good.
00:03:45Good.
00:03:46Good.
00:03:46Good.
00:03:46Okay.
00:03:46Let me make some calls.
00:03:47I think I can get you in.
00:03:49Okay.
00:03:50But I want you to stay, Abner.
00:03:51Yeah.
00:03:52And I'm going to check.
00:03:53Okay?
00:03:54Yes.
00:03:55Alright.
00:03:56Let me make some calls, and then we'll come back, okay?
00:03:58Okay.
00:03:59You're going to stay here?
00:04:00Yes.
00:04:00All right.
00:04:01Did you get something to eat already?
00:04:02Yes.
00:04:03You did?
00:04:03Okay.
00:04:04You okay then for now?
00:04:06Yes.
00:04:06I'm okay.
00:04:07Alright.
00:04:07Let me make some phone calls.
00:04:09Alright.
00:04:09Thanks, Abner.
00:04:10Appreciate you.
00:04:11Thank you so much.
00:04:11You have a good day, buddy.
00:04:13Thank you for taking your shot.
00:04:15That's a good idea.
00:04:16Get you back on track, okay?
00:04:18Okay.
00:04:19All right.
00:04:20See you.
00:04:25For the folks that are chronically homeless,
00:04:27they need people who come to them and provide care where they're at.
00:04:30In particular, with patients who are mentally ill,
00:04:32they need a little extra motivation or engagement to connect with them first.
00:04:37Our important goal is to find the most vulnerable,
00:04:40most ill, most chronically homeless individuals
00:04:43and give them a chance of addressing their housing,
00:04:45health, and psychiatric needs.
00:04:48I just have a whole bunch of shots for people who are due
00:04:50and extras for people who might be appropriate for medications.
00:05:02Hi, Levan. Good morning.
00:05:05Oh, nice jacket.
00:05:06You look nice and warm.
00:05:08Dr. Key's gonna give medicine, okay?
00:05:10How you been, Levan?
00:05:11Good, good, good, good.
00:05:12Good?
00:05:14Okay, yeah.
00:05:14More on the side, yeah.
00:05:16Yes, on the side.
00:05:17Not by the road.
00:05:18Not in the rain.
00:05:19Yeah, good for you.
00:05:20I'm proud of you.
00:05:22You're not walking in the road anymore, are you?
00:05:24Yeah, yeah.
00:05:24So the advent of these monthly shots that are these newer medications that treat schizophrenia
00:05:31have been a tremendous tool that we use.
00:05:34If you offer them oral medications for schizophrenia to a chronically homeless person,
00:05:40the chances of success is almost zero.
00:05:43Versus if you offer them a shot, which means that they'll have like 30 days' worth of medication in their
00:05:51system.
00:05:51They're getting a month's worth of medication in one shot.
00:05:54The compliance is like 100%.
00:06:02I was trying to do the keto diet so I'd have a lot of protein like fish, tofu, quinoa or
00:06:09steak.
00:06:10Yeah.
00:06:11Yeah.
00:06:12I don't know.
00:06:14But sometimes like rice and bread taste so good.
00:06:18It's like you can't get away from it.
00:06:20You know, it's like, it's the best.
00:06:24I grew up eating rice like breakfast, lunch and dinner.
00:06:28But ever since I started taking my medication, I gained like, I don't know, maybe like 20, 30 pounds.
00:06:36And it's not, that's not like too much, but I think if I don't like try to like control my
00:06:45weight,
00:06:45I think with the medication, if I just eat like anything, then I think I would gain a lot of
00:06:52weight.
00:06:52I think staying at home and doing nothing too kind of makes you like eat because you just have like
00:07:00nothing to do.
00:07:02So like eating kind of like cheers you up, you know?
00:07:07I'm diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, which is like a combination of the best of both worlds of schizophrenia and major
00:07:17mood disorder.
00:07:19So it's like that combined.
00:07:21When I was off medication, you have positive symptoms like hallucinations and voices.
00:07:26And then with the mood disorder, it's like your mood kind of changes and goes up and down and your
00:07:31energy level changes.
00:07:33I think a lot of people know about the positive symptoms, which is like hallucination, voices and delusions.
00:07:40But there's another side of it called negative symptoms.
00:07:44And it's a little bit harder because they don't have too much treatments for it.
00:07:48So it's like a flat face or like loss of energy or like loss of pleasure of doing things.
00:07:58I'm kind of stable on my medication with not too many like delusions, but the negative symptoms kind of like
00:08:06take a slow toll on me and it kind of like prevents me from doing a lot of things.
00:08:16When I was struggling, like, I'm still struggling, but my dad was encouraging me to do something, you know?
00:08:23So he would take me out to go stand up paddle boarding out and paddle out to Kaneohe Bay.
00:08:30So yeah, it was nice, you know, just to like have somebody that was like, you know, just encouraging me
00:08:37to do something, you know?
00:08:38Because I guess one of my symptoms is just to do nothing.
00:08:42I used to be really passionate about going to the ocean and surfing and stuff, like really into it.
00:08:49But then I just kind of lost interest after I got my diagnosis.
00:08:56And like one of the symptoms is like, you can't like get pleasure in doing things.
00:09:03So I don't know how true that is, but sometimes I feel like I lost that like spark, you know,
00:09:11or something.
00:09:13When I was having an episode, I was like walking through all these back roads and like all these thoughts
00:09:20in my head.
00:09:21Then I remember coming over here.
00:09:25Let's see if I could find the exact dumpster.
00:09:40Yeah, it brings back memories, man. It's kind of a trip.
00:09:44But I remember walking around Kaneohe and just, just out of my mind, you know?
00:09:51And I got here and I just got into the dumpster.
00:09:55And I started crying and I thought that it was a dead baby.
00:10:00But it just, it just seems like so surreal.
00:10:03Like, you know, did that really happen? You know, like, when I, when I remember about it, you know?
00:10:10I don't know how long I was there, but it wasn't good.
00:10:13And then I ended up going to the mall to try to visit my ex-girlfriend who worked there.
00:10:20When I first got into the mall, like all the stimulus was just so overwhelming and the colors and everything.
00:10:27Um, I went into the store and bought like 15 shirts of the same shirt because of something, something about
00:10:34the colors, about like good and evil or something.
00:10:38Um, and then, um, I went to go try to visit my ex-girlfriend.
00:10:43And then I went downstairs, uh, to eat at the first place we had our first date.
00:10:49And then I think they called the cops on me.
00:10:52And then we're standing around and the cops are standing around me in a circle.
00:10:56They said they couldn't arrest me because I wasn't doing anything wrong.
00:11:00So I kind of like lunged towards one of the police officers and they, uh, tackled me.
00:11:05And I remember they had a knee on my neck and I just passed out.
00:11:08But like shout out to them because that was like the first step of my recovery.
00:11:15If they didn't like stop me and then take me to the psych ward, like I could have just wandered
00:11:23like more and got more into my psychosis.
00:11:27And like, who knows what could have happened.
00:11:39He goes wild when he, he doesn't know someone and they approach him.
00:11:46Since I was in training, he's probably been here since then.
00:11:49And for whatever reason, without any kind of psych treatment.
00:11:55Do you sing, I know, uh?
00:11:56Like when you play music, do you sing?
00:11:58Once upon a time.
00:12:00You play music and sing for me one day, okay, I know, uh?
00:12:03One day you sing for me, all right?
00:12:06Usually the guys we work with, most, more likely than that, they'll take the meds.
00:12:11But he's particularly paranoid and...
00:12:17Hi, Noah. You hungry?
00:12:19You wanna come get food?
00:12:22No.
00:12:24You have drink?
00:12:26No.
00:12:27You need anything else? Do you have your pens?
00:12:30Let me know if you need anything, okay, I know all?
00:12:41Ah, shit!
00:12:42Get the fuck out of here!
00:12:43Yeah, you get the fuck out of here!
00:12:45I got the fuck out of here!
00:12:46I got some fucking out of here, my car, sonny!
00:12:49Oh, shit!
00:12:53Put me in the fucking ass of here!
00:12:55I got some fucking ass of those cars, sonny!
00:12:58Oh, shit!
00:13:07So right after Shauna talked to him, that guy, John, came around there and was telling him,
00:13:12well, you need to leave, you're going to get trespassed, you know, I'm going to call the cops.
00:13:16Oh, boy. His little outburst just now, he gets so agitated that sometimes he'll throw stuff around,
00:13:25people feel unsafe around him, he gets into people's personal space, he's yelling, screaming, swearing.
00:13:32Seeing the severity of his psychosis, can't let him just languish in psychosis, homelessness, and not being able to house
00:13:41him.
00:13:42So we decided to go for the act order on him.
00:13:48Ten years ago, a bunch of the social service agencies, including IHS, rallied around creating this law in Hawaii,
00:13:55which would help people with mental illness or substance abuse be compelled to comply with recommended treatment.
00:14:02Best case scenario with this law in Hawaii, you have somebody with schizophrenia who meets the criteria for the law,
00:14:08they have been incarcerated or arrested or been in a psychiatric hospital in the recent past,
00:14:15and a person like that should stay on their shot or their medication.
00:14:19In the event that they start to refuse a shot, the treatment team can give them the option of,
00:14:28come with us to the clinic, or we can come to your house and give you the shot,
00:14:31or if you don't take the shot voluntarily, then we have to use this paper and have you taken police
00:14:38to the emergency room for the medicine.
00:14:41The Outreach Navigation Program was actually the brainchild of the fact that when they passed the law
00:14:49to allow what we call assisted community treatment,
00:14:53it's court-ordered treatment in the community that we decided,
00:14:57hey, we really want to do this because we see the people that need it.
00:15:01You know, we really want to help those people who can't really help themselves access the treatment to get it.
00:15:08One thing that people don't realize is that many times they thought when we do a mental health evaluation order
00:15:14on MH1
00:15:15and, you know, the police take somebody to the emergency room that they're going to get treatment.
00:15:20But the reality is, if that person goes to the emergency room and they say,
00:15:24sorry, buddy, I'm not interested, they basically let them go.
00:15:29Because, you know, you can't treat a person over objection without a court order.
00:15:38When I first got arrested, you know, when I went to the mall and I was just kind of, like,
00:15:44all over the place,
00:15:48they said they were going to return me back to my home, my parents.
00:15:52And my parents were like, dude, like, we don't know what to do with him, like, we have no idea.
00:15:58But because I wasn't violent or because I didn't want to hurt anybody or because I didn't want to hurt
00:16:04myself,
00:16:05the ward said they couldn't take me.
00:16:08So it's this weird, like, loophole where it's like, if you're not violent, if you're not hurting somebody,
00:16:13if you're not hurting yourself, then they won't admit you to the ward, which is kind of like a weird
00:16:18rule.
00:16:18So my parents, like, wrote up this whole, like, letter of all the weird stuff I was doing within the
00:16:24recent time.
00:16:25And, like, just by chance, they knew some kind of nurse through, like, their friends or something.
00:16:30And then they got me in.
00:16:31So, like, luckily, like, my parents are, like, lobbying for me.
00:16:35So then I got my medication, you know.
00:16:37Some of the nurses at the hospital told me I'm kind of lucky because I got a diagnosis so instantly,
00:16:46you know, so definite.
00:16:47Because some people, it's hard for them to get a diagnosis.
00:16:50Like, imagine if you're, like, right at the limit, you're kind of functional, but you're, like, you're, you have schizophrenia,
00:16:58but you're kind of functional.
00:16:59Like, you won't believe that you have schizophrenia, you know, and you'll just go on with your life being affected
00:17:05by schizophrenia, you know.
00:17:07And you won't get, you won't get medication.
00:17:10But mine's just, like, over the top.
00:17:11So, like, I wasn't drinking or I wasn't on any drugs.
00:17:14So they could definitely say, like, dude, you got schizophrenia.
00:17:18Yeah.
00:17:19But for other people, it's, like, they could be in limbo for years, you know, and not get treatment.
00:17:28A lot of my friends are from my high school, and they all, like, went to college in the mainland
00:17:38and kind of, like, stayed there, did their own thing.
00:17:46And even my friends from Kaneohe, they moved to, like, Vegas or San Francisco or New York, and I just
00:17:55was, like, I don't know, Kaneohe is pretty nice, and I just stayed here.
00:18:01Or maybe it's because I have an illness, so I kind of, like, have to live with my parents.
00:18:11But even if I didn't, like, Kaneohe is pretty nice.
00:18:14I would want to stay here.
00:18:16There's going to come a point where you just take a big inhale, and then you exhale fully, and at
00:18:22the bottom of the exhale, you have to hold your breath.
00:18:25And it has, like, this kind of, like, trippy music, and it kind of puts you in, like, this euphoric
00:18:29state.
00:18:31But, yeah, it's just, that's the, you got to remember that part.
00:18:41It sounds, like, so trivial, but once you start appreciating your breath, and you can kind of, like, appreciate some
00:18:50basic stuff, you know, like,
00:18:51instead of going, like, super far, like, high up, if you go the opposite direction, and you bring it all
00:18:57the way to the most basic thing of appreciating your breath,
00:19:00then, I don't know, it just seems less daunting.
00:19:04You're just, like, it's just your breath, you know?
00:19:07It's, like, the most basic thing.
00:19:11I'm not too sure if stress triggers schizophrenia, but it seems like every time I start doing a bunch of
00:19:17things,
00:19:18and I get on my really full schedule, then I usually have an episode.
00:19:26Because, like, at first I was like, dude, I don't want to stay on disability, because I'm just, like, using
00:19:32everybody's, like, energy, you know?
00:19:35Um, but then after I realized that I'm probably going to have an episode if I try to get too
00:19:41busy, um,
00:19:44so now I'm rethinking, maybe I have to reimagine what my goals, and reimagine what my definition of success is.
00:19:55Right now is, I work for a Lyft, so I just work whenever I want to work, or if I
00:20:00feel bad that day, I just don't work.
00:20:02And I kind of schedule my life with, like, little obligations, like, hardly any obligations.
00:20:10And so I think, I think having less, like, responsibilities helps me, like, maintain my self in recovery.
00:20:26There have been some times where we can't find him.
00:20:31But this is, this is the mission today.
00:20:37Ideal scenario, he doesn't resist, he doesn't run into traffic, he cooperates.
00:20:44It would be even better if he would agree to take medication, which he never has with us before, but
00:20:50that would, that would be ideal.
00:20:52I have a, a client that I need to be transported to Queen's Medical Center.
00:20:57It should have been set up by the major and Sergeant Grant.
00:21:04It's an assisted community treatment court order that I'm trying to get this client transported to Queen's.
00:21:12And you're a counselor?
00:21:15I work with IHS.
00:21:18We go and we get assisted community treatment orders to medicate the real resistant homeless individuals.
00:21:30Yes, for mental health, medication for mental health.
00:21:34It's assisted community treatment order, so all I need is for them to transport.
00:21:39They don't need to do anything other than that.
00:21:43All right, we'll send an officer so I come down, okay?
00:21:46Okay, thank you.
00:21:48You're welcome, bye-bye.
00:21:49Okay, bye.
00:21:53Now we wait.
00:21:55Hey, how's it going?
00:21:57Good, bye-bye.
00:21:58So he's right around the corner here, like a white, gray shirt, long pants.
00:22:03He's right around the corner here.
00:22:05Like, saying he wants to kill himself?
00:22:07No, so this is, I have an assisted community treatment order, so we're trying to medicate him with antipsychotic shot.
00:22:14But in order to do it, we need to do it in a hospital setting.
00:22:16So all I need you to do is take him to Queen's.
00:22:20That's it.
00:22:21Okay, you can't, well, I gotta run it by the Queen's first.
00:22:25But if they want to go...
00:22:26Well, it's already set up with Queen's, it's already set up with Grant and your major.
00:22:32For everyone's future reference, you all have my approval to assist the IHS with the court-approved ACT.
00:22:38That's from the major.
00:22:39Where's the gentleman at?
00:22:40It's right around this corner.
00:22:42But he's, he's agitated.
00:22:44Yeah.
00:22:45What?
00:23:14It's in his last one.
00:23:14I don't know.
00:23:27It's a medical center.
00:23:30It is.
00:23:31Yeah.
00:23:32What is that?
00:23:33You just need one shot.
00:23:35They're going to let you go.
00:23:39They're going to let you go right after.
00:23:40The robot, a vending machine, a police officer.
00:23:44The vending machine?
00:23:46But why are you talking to me?
00:23:47I'm under the custody of a police officer.
00:23:50You're not in trouble.
00:23:52Officer, that being an officer, please.
00:23:55I know, okay.
00:23:56I just said it's a medical institute.
00:23:57It is.
00:23:59All you got to do is take one shot.
00:24:02They're back in the street in Vendor.
00:24:04Do you know what that is?
00:24:05Hey, you know, you're supposed to get a shot today.
00:24:08If that's how you're here for it, then you're on your way.
00:24:09Wait, officers came in the car.
00:24:11You know what I mean?
00:24:11You're not in trouble.
00:24:13Why are you talking to me?
00:24:14You're not officers.
00:24:15I have to be quiet here.
00:24:18I have to watch you.
00:24:20You guys, if you can.
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00:24:40Hey, how are you?
00:24:41Hi, good.
00:24:43All right.
00:24:44And where do you normally get your shot?
00:24:46In your arm?
00:24:47Yeah.
00:24:47Okay.
00:24:50Before I was on medication, but I was on the pills.
00:24:54Yeah.
00:24:55And then I eventually just stopped taking my meds.
00:24:57It's hard to remember sometimes to take the meds, the orals.
00:25:00Yeah.
00:25:00Yeah, and not just that, but even trying to make it to a doctor's appointment.
00:25:04Sometimes when life just gets busy.
00:25:06Yeah.
00:25:07So when you come here, it's like, okay, I'm getting my shot.
00:25:10No matter.
00:25:10You're good for 90 days.
00:25:11No matter.
00:25:13I think you're 90.
00:25:15Three months?
00:25:15Yeah, 90 days.
00:25:16Yeah.
00:25:17Yeah.
00:25:18One, two, three.
00:25:27Yeah.
00:25:27Good job.
00:25:33Oh, you're a pro.
00:25:34Yeah.
00:25:34I was worried.
00:25:36Jarek's like, someone's filling in for you.
00:25:37I was like, oh, no.
00:25:38It's going to be that.
00:25:39Oh, no, no, no.
00:25:40You're like a pro.
00:25:42I'm a nurse, so we do a lot of shots.
00:25:44Thank you so much.
00:25:45Okay.
00:25:46Nice to meet you.
00:25:46Bye, Christina.
00:25:46See you again.
00:25:47Bye.
00:25:47Thanks.
00:25:51Okay.
00:25:52Yeah, she was a good one.
00:25:54How can you tell?
00:25:55The shot wasn't painful.
00:25:56Then I'm supposed to rub it.
00:25:58I'm so happy to get it because, I don't know, like, I think one of the things about
00:26:04schizophrenia is that, like, after a while you, like, don't want to be having it.
00:26:09Like, you just, like, you want to forget that you even have schizophrenia.
00:26:14Getting the shot is, like, a sure way of getting my medication.
00:26:21And the medication is so crucial where it's, like, I could do everything I wanted health-wise, like, eat good,
00:26:30sleep good, rest.
00:26:33And if I wasn't on my medication, I would still have an episode.
00:26:38So it's, like, it's not even a question of, like, are you coping with it well?
00:26:43The question is, did you take your medication?
00:26:47Without it, you're unable to even ask for help, you know?
00:26:51Because you're so, like, if it was for me, I would be so consumed with all the delusions and stuff
00:26:56that I wouldn't even stop to think, like, oh, I need help.
00:27:01It would just be so engulfing my everything that I wouldn't even know anything is wrong with me.
00:27:09I would think that that was just how it was, and I would forget about schizophrenia.
00:27:16I would forget that I'm sick.
00:27:18I moved out of this house, out of my parents' house, and I went to go live in Kailua for
00:27:22two years.
00:27:23And I was just hanging on by a thread, but it didn't even occur to me that I was sick.
00:27:32Like, while I was engulfed in my thoughts, like, I didn't even think I was sick.
00:27:38The only reason why I went back on medication was because I had an episode, and I had the voices
00:27:44were telling me that I was Jesus, and that I had to die for everyone's sins.
00:27:49And I woke up, and I had a knife to my arm, and because I'm kind of like a scaredy
00:27:55cat, I was like, whoa, this is wrong.
00:27:58And then I called 911, and the ambulance came and took me to the ward.
00:28:04But if it wasn't for that knife, like, pushing me to the point of, whoa, something is wrong, dude, I
00:28:12need medication.
00:28:13But before that, I was just living life, like, my mind was so occupied by delusions that I didn't even
00:28:20have time to think, like, I need help.
00:28:27Functions are kind of like functionality, like, you can, like, do interactive things.
00:28:32Like, you give it something, and then it processes it, and then it gives you something back.
00:28:37But I noticed that when I take on too much, then I have more symptoms.
00:28:41Like, I got a job programming, and that was good for three months, and then all of a sudden I
00:28:50got super dark, and I just stopped working.
00:28:54I just, in my mind, like, shut down, and then they called me and was like, oh, you can't be
00:29:00doing this, you know, like, you gotta, like, work.
00:29:02And so I lost that job.
00:29:10So, for I know, initially his reaction to the medication was pretty decent.
00:29:15Like, he was very upset the day that he went in, but after that he actually came up to me
00:29:21and talked to me a little bit,
00:29:21which was unusual because I'm not one of his favorites. Sean is much better with him.
00:29:27But he actually sought me out, like, the next week and said hi and stuff, so that was positive.
00:29:33I know, we got to get you your shot. We don't want to have to call the police. I know,
00:29:39shot real quick.
00:29:41I don't want to have to call the police.
00:29:49The police got to come, I know, and take you to the hospital. We don't want to do it that
00:29:54way.
00:29:56You can. Just one shot. I don't want to call police.
00:30:08I know, we're just trying to help you. We're just trying to help you.
00:30:16It is.
00:30:26Yeah, that's kind of how I thought that would go.
00:30:28You see all the sores on his face, though?
00:30:30Yeah, he could see it.
00:30:31I did not like that.
00:30:32It's from when he was assaulted, and then he picked all the scabs.
00:30:36So it always looks like it's fresh.
00:30:42Want me to go by myself?
00:30:44No.
00:30:44Can you try?
00:30:45No. Absolutely not.
00:30:48We'll just use the ACT order.
00:30:52I wish he would have accepted it on his own, but...
00:30:57Just not ready yet.
00:30:59Yeah, we should just do it tomorrow.
00:31:00Then there's the weekend.
00:31:02Okay.
00:31:04I'll contact HPV and we'll do it that way.
00:31:12Does he have his shot ready at the pharmacy, or do you have it?
00:31:17What the hell do you think I do, man?
00:31:20I didn't know if you left it there or if you had it.
00:31:25The man, the myth, the legend.
00:31:28Awesome. Got it.
00:31:31You are the man.
00:31:32At least you found him.
00:31:37Hey, he looked real bad, though, today.
00:31:39He looked worse than...
00:31:40Hey, he's about to be mad at you.
00:31:42No, no, I ain't high-fiving that.
00:31:47I am not high-fiving that.
00:31:49Told you about three more shots.
00:31:51Two more shots.
00:31:52Yeah.
00:31:53And maybe we'll see it.
00:31:54Then it'll start giving me my system off.
00:31:59Well, try again.
00:32:07Give me your butt.
00:32:08It's gonna get wet.
00:32:12This weather is not helping us.
00:32:17I think we should go up, then come back down the street
00:32:21and check all the little alleyways,
00:32:23because he used to be down in the alleys down here, too.
00:32:26He's in some parking garage.
00:32:28He's in some parking garage, yeah.
00:32:29Guarantee, with this weather.
00:32:31We're relentless, though.
00:32:33We'll get them.
00:32:34It's not today.
00:32:35It'll be on Monday.
00:32:37It will definitely be on Monday.
00:32:41I don't like them going this long without a shot, too.
00:32:44Medication, yep.
00:32:55But he was upset when we were at the hospital.
00:32:58He was pissed.
00:32:58He was screaming and yelling.
00:33:00I tried to talk to him a few times, trying to tell him that we don't want to do it
00:33:04that way.
00:33:05We'd much rather you just accept your medication.
00:33:07But he wasn't hearing any of that.
00:33:09He kept telling the officer to tell me to go away.
00:33:11He kept telling the officer,
00:33:12Officer, can you make him go away?
00:33:13Officer.
00:33:14Officer.
00:33:15But towards the end, after he took the shot, he thanked us and seemed jovial.
00:33:22He was pleased.
00:33:23He wasn't upset anymore.
00:33:25Nope.
00:33:25He was happy.
00:33:25He said sorry.
00:33:26He was very lucky for me.
00:33:40He was unhappy, didn't he?
00:33:40He did take care of a condition.
00:33:41He said he was helping me.
00:33:41And he felt he was like, I mean, he was hurt.
00:33:42And he felt like he could do.
00:33:43I mean, he looked up a little bit.
00:33:44He said this thing.
00:33:45And he felt like older people would try to be comfortable.
00:33:49If it was, he felt like, hey, he did not know.
00:33:50You know, he felt like he was like, yeah.
00:33:52But he would go away.
00:33:53It's like he did not know how I knew what he looked at.
00:33:56problem solve, to think clearly without having distortions of reality, without
00:34:03having auditory hallucinations, which are very real. Unfortunately this condition
00:34:08also causes one to not be so aware of the impairment or of the symptoms of the
00:34:17illness. So one may not believe that diagnosis is correct and they believe
00:34:23that the delusions that they're having are completely true. In mental health, this word
00:34:29anosognosia is becoming very commonly used and it's a very helpful paradigm to
00:34:36understand when you're treating someone with schizophrenia or related
00:34:40conditions because it really affects one's ability to understand their
00:34:45illness, to be compliant with treatment, and to maintain a steady course of
00:34:50improvement and remission. It's a complete lack of awareness of the disabling
00:34:57symptoms that are caused by the illness. It's different from denial.
00:35:01Fortunately, it's part of the illness and it results in a fairly global lack of
00:35:05awareness of one's impairment as well as the overall impairment that the symptoms
00:35:11cause. It leads to people not wanting to take medication, not even seeing the need
00:35:15to take medication, not wanting to see a psychiatrist, and it's highly correlated
00:35:20with poor outcome.
00:35:29You want coffee? I'll go get it for you. Yeah.
00:35:31McDonald's? Yes, I'll go get you McDonald's coffee.
00:35:34I'm sorry. No, it's okay. I'm just gonna give this to her. You want coffee? You want creamer? Sugar?
00:35:39Give me a second. Okay. Okay. No problem.
00:35:47Oh, he saw me outside of L&L's. He gave me knuckles. He's like, I'm sorry. Yeah, I walk away
00:35:53sometimes.
00:35:54Our boy. We're gonna get him coffee. McDonald's. Yeah, McDonald's.
00:36:01Hotel Steve. Yes, Hotel Steve. Yes, Hotel Steve. Yes, Hotel Steve.
00:36:05Hotel Steve. What's your planning? Huh? What's your planning?
00:36:08What is that? The morning. What's your morning planning? Oh, I don't know.
00:36:10Hey, what's your morning planning? No. No, you're not messing up anything. I'm sorry.
00:36:15You okay? I'm gonna buy my own. Yeah, you don't want food? No. You're not hungry?
00:36:18I was walking. Somebody gave me a breakfast. Oh, that's so nice. I sleep on the sidewalk.
00:36:24I gotta get me an apartment. Yes, we do. Yes, work on that. Let us help you.
00:36:28No, no. I'm all right. I check in with the store and you said, I gotta wait. Okay?
00:36:34Okay. Hey, Tikiara. Okay. You doing good, okay? Stand at the temple.
00:36:37How's it? How's it? What's it? How's it? How's it is?
00:36:40They're all arriving at McDonald's. Oh, yeah? Yeah, McDonald's is good.
00:36:43Oh, you look so much clearer. What was that? Um?
00:36:47Nine-one report. Yeah. I guess I'm only over here, though.
00:36:50Sea Citizen. He'll have it. Yeah.
00:36:52Okay, first time, over here. Yeah. So, I will tell my campaign.
00:36:58That's when you're little.
00:37:00You're so young, yeah.
00:37:00Good to see you.
00:37:02Have a good day.
00:37:04Yes, Rx Medical.
00:37:05We'll see you later.
00:37:07Okay.
00:37:08Bye, Noah.
00:37:15I love him.
00:37:19I love him.
00:37:20He talks so clearer.
00:37:22And he said he wanted an apartment.
00:37:24I know.
00:37:24I've never heard that.
00:37:26I've never heard that.
00:37:28See, like how he was positive like that,
00:37:30that's how he was when he left the hospital.
00:37:32Only then.
00:37:33Like before that, he was irate.
00:37:35He was not happy.
00:37:37But then when he was leaving the hospital,
00:37:39he was like, oh, thank you.
00:37:40Aloha.
00:37:41And then he comes up like that
00:37:42and not just seeks out Shaan
00:37:45because that's his buddy,
00:37:46but, you know, once he talked to me,
00:37:47I was shocked.
00:37:48That's the kind of stuff that makes my day.
00:37:51Then he's like,
00:37:52I sleep on, you know,
00:37:53I sleep at the church.
00:37:54Oh, yeah, on the sidewalk at the church.
00:37:56I got to get an apartment.
00:37:58Oh, my God.
00:37:59So I'm telling Shez and Jordan right now.
00:38:01I'm so happy.
00:38:03That's so what I wanted from the morning.
00:38:05Oh, my God.
00:38:05And he apologized for walking away from us.
00:38:09Oh, my goodness.
00:38:13Oh, so great.
00:38:15Today was even more.
00:38:16Today was even better.
00:38:17More positive.
00:38:18Today was much better.
00:38:19The best I've seen him ever, yeah.
00:38:20Yes, ever.
00:38:21I think it's going to take
00:38:22a little bit more medication.
00:38:24I think we still have to do baby steps with him.
00:38:26Some more medicine in him
00:38:28and just keep the routine,
00:38:29keep going back and talking to him
00:38:31and building that rapport up
00:38:33and hopefully he'll trust it,
00:38:35you know,
00:38:35we can help him get somewhere safe to sleep.
00:38:38Hopefully he'll start doing medication
00:38:39on the street.
00:38:41Hopefully.
00:38:42But that might be a couple more shots
00:38:43down the road.
00:38:44I don't know.
00:38:45After today,
00:38:46I have a good feeling.
00:38:48Yeah.
00:38:48We'll just have to stay on top of his schedule,
00:38:50make sure he doesn't get behind
00:38:51on the scheduling.
00:38:52But, yeah,
00:38:53EBT first, maybe, hopefully.
00:38:55Yeah, get him finances.
00:38:56Yeah.
00:38:56Get some ID going.
00:39:01This is the Kualao Clubhouse,
00:39:03and I'm going to walk around
00:39:05and show you what's inside.
00:39:08Clubhouse is a psychosocial rehabilitation model,
00:39:11and its mission is to help people
00:39:13with mental illness
00:39:14with their rehabilitation,
00:39:16going back to work or school
00:39:18and having a place to come,
00:39:19a place to come back to,
00:39:21a place to belong
00:39:22and have meaningful relationships.
00:39:25When I first came,
00:39:27I was very, like, timid,
00:39:29and Eve called me
00:39:31and called me
00:39:32and I came back.
00:39:33I bothered him a lot.
00:39:34Yeah.
00:39:35I isolated,
00:39:36and she called me.
00:39:38Yeah, I outreached him a lot.
00:39:39It was during COVID, too,
00:39:40yeah, I think.
00:39:41Yeah.
00:39:46Something's wrong.
00:39:48I've got to go to the setting.
00:39:50Okay, Taylor Swift
00:39:51is singing the song.
00:39:53Yeah.
00:39:54And that's a good thing.
00:39:56I was wondering what the music sounded like.
00:40:01I'm going to go to try George Benson after this.
00:40:04Yeah, try.
00:40:04At the clubhouse,
00:40:06we don't really talk about our mental illness that much,
00:40:09but it's kind of understood
00:40:10that everybody here has experienced something similar,
00:40:14and so it's kind of bonding where you feel kind of at ease
00:40:19because you're like,
00:40:19oh, they actually understand, like,
00:40:21something that I went through,
00:40:23and we don't have to talk about it.
00:40:24Like, we don't have to go dive,
00:40:25dig deep into it,
00:40:26but we can, you know,
00:40:29be around each other
00:40:30and just talk to each other
00:40:31and just hang out and stuff.
00:40:34Alex, you want to go to the pool?
00:40:36No, I'm okay.
00:40:37You'd be good.
00:40:38Tom, you want to go to the pool?
00:40:40So the thing about the pool,
00:40:42you guys, you don't need to swim, swim.
00:40:45You can also just walk for exercise.
00:40:47Clubhouse is there to provide a wide range of services.
00:40:50If you look at the standards,
00:40:51we're providing a lot of different things.
00:40:53We're looking at the whole person,
00:40:54health, employment, education, and community.
00:41:00So it might be that somebody comes in for work,
00:41:02but the other person might come in
00:41:04to have any place to belong.
00:41:06And so the clubhouse really provides
00:41:08a whole array of opportunities or services
00:41:12depending on what that person needs.
00:41:15This is the employment board.
00:41:18And so one of the things that the clubhouse does
00:41:23is they help you transition back into society.
00:41:27So they have employment
00:41:28where they partner with employers.
00:41:32And if you call in sick,
00:41:35then one of the staff members will cover for you.
00:41:38So the employers know,
00:41:40okay, they always have an employee
00:41:41and they feel confident hiring someone like us.
00:41:46And on our side,
00:41:47we get the opportunity to work somewhere
00:41:49without as much stress.
00:41:52Like if we call out sick,
00:41:53then we know someone's going to cover for us, you know?
00:41:56And so it's kind of like a transition
00:41:57to getting back into employment
00:42:00and like getting back into society.
00:42:05You want a coffee?
00:42:06You want a coffee?
00:42:06No.
00:42:07I want some pancakes or something.
00:42:08No.
00:42:10Pancakes, can.
00:42:10Yeah?
00:42:11Yeah.
00:42:11No.
00:42:11It's...
00:42:12Wow.
00:42:12I'll get myself.
00:42:13Okay.
00:42:14Go back.
00:42:15Holy moly.
00:42:17Holy...
00:42:18Oh, he makes me so happy.
00:42:20That's a miracle.
00:42:20Oh my God, I have to do a happy night
00:42:21every time I see him.
00:42:23Oh my God.
00:42:24That is the greatest, greatest story ever.
00:42:27Yeah.
00:42:28Pancakes?
00:42:29Pancakes?
00:42:29You want a sandwich too?
00:42:31Pancakes and sausage?
00:42:32Sausage, yeah.
00:42:33Pancakes and sausage.
00:42:33You want soda?
00:42:34No, no, I'm good.
00:42:35Coffee?
00:42:36Coffee.
00:42:37I'll mention when we're talking for it.
00:42:39Look, he's judging by the friends.
00:42:43He has friends.
00:42:45There's your pancakes and sausage.
00:42:47Good morning.
00:42:47Pancakes.
00:42:48Good morning.
00:42:49Good morning.
00:42:50You going to be okay?
00:42:50Yeah.
00:42:51I'm only up to back in the store
00:42:53and there's no blue and white patrol.
00:42:55Yeah.
00:42:55And only have myself to sidebar.
00:42:57I'll just sleep.
00:42:58What about if we get you on bed?
00:43:00Like at a shelter?
00:43:01I'm going to check in first.
00:43:02If anything changes,
00:43:03then I can go down to Yville Lake.
00:43:05Okay.
00:43:06Okay.
00:43:06You know where it is?
00:43:07Next time, we'll check up on you.
00:43:08If you want to go, let us know, okay?
00:43:09Okay.
00:43:10Okay.
00:43:11Okay.
00:43:11Look good.
00:43:12Yeah.
00:43:12Keep it up, buddy.
00:43:13Stay out of trouble.
00:43:15That's in the bar distributed.
00:43:17Huh?
00:43:18That's the liquor store.
00:43:19Yes.
00:43:20Huh?
00:43:20More than seven years of age.
00:43:22Adolescent.
00:43:23Here, the four-three more.
00:43:25You got to be 21 to buy alcohol, right?
00:43:26Yeah.
00:43:28Yeah.
00:43:28Yeah.
00:43:29You say alcohol.
00:43:30No.
00:43:30No.
00:43:31Sometimes.
00:43:33You smoke cigarettes.
00:43:33You smoke cigarettes.
00:43:33It hasn't been for like three years.
00:43:35Oh, really?
00:43:36Only McDonald's.
00:43:37I come over here.
00:43:38Only McDonald's.
00:43:38Buy me a cup of coffee.
00:43:40Good.
00:43:40It's your favorite place to eat.
00:43:41I'm just coming.
00:43:42I'm only on Bishop Street.
00:43:44That's why.
00:43:44Yeah.
00:43:44You stay around here.
00:43:45Yeah.
00:43:46Thank you for your sharing.
00:43:47How's that?
00:43:48Charity.
00:43:49No, you're not charity.
00:43:50The church is left upon a time when they're right in Ivy.
00:43:53Yes.
00:43:54Long time ago.
00:43:55I've never heard of talk normal words.
00:43:56Yes.
00:43:57Oh, my God.
00:43:58We were convers...
00:43:58Oh.
00:43:59Talking about growing up in Kaneohe.
00:44:01Yeah.
00:44:02The travel agent is going to take him back to Kaneohe tomorrow.
00:44:06Take him.
00:44:08Have you guys interacted with I-Noah lately?
00:44:11He's medicated.
00:44:12The one with the scraggly old hair.
00:44:14He always used to stay at the church and yell.
00:44:16You just identified about 20...
00:44:19He stays at the church and he used to yell, but we medicated him and he's like talking sentences
00:44:23to us.
00:44:24You mean that was just here?
00:44:25Yes.
00:44:25Yeah.
00:44:26Oh, yeah.
00:44:26Yes.
00:44:27He's medicated.
00:44:27Two shots in now.
00:44:28I saw him this morning.
00:44:29Yeah.
00:44:30I saw him this morning getting coffee from McDonald's.
00:44:32And he actually talked and made sense.
00:44:34Yes, he did.
00:44:35He took two shots in.
00:44:37I was like, wow.
00:44:38And then I saw walking with you.
00:44:39Yeah.
00:44:40And I was like, wow.
00:44:41Yes.
00:44:41Good for him.
00:44:42Yay.
00:44:43And us run away.
00:44:44I know.
00:44:45It's amazing, too, that after last hospital visit, he was calmer on the officer.
00:44:56I'm happy that everybody else is seeing a difference, too.
00:45:00That it's not just us.
00:45:02That makes me happy.
00:45:04I know it makes me happy.
00:45:05Oh, my God.
00:45:06He's amazing.
00:45:08So proud of him.
00:45:13And two shots, you see?
00:45:14Like, if they don't use meth, the turnaround is so good.
00:45:17And it happens so much faster.
00:45:21I've sat in for like 25 years.
00:45:23Really?
00:45:24Before I went to jail before, and he was my roommate.
00:45:27Really?
00:45:27Yes.
00:45:27Nobody wanted to be his roommate.
00:45:29He was in for a long time.
00:45:30Yeah, I see him over there by the church, and he tried to call the police on him.
00:45:33Yeah, the church guy is not a nice guy.
00:45:35I said, man, you got to understand who you're dealing with.
00:45:38So I told him, you just walk off the property.
00:45:40Yeah.
00:45:40And just let him go.
00:45:41Because a cop came over and said, I'll bust you up.
00:45:43He was getting real violent with the guy.
00:45:45And that's not how you deal with a guy like that.
00:45:47No.
00:45:47And I don't like that.
00:45:48I don't understand that.
00:45:49You don't bring violence with violence.
00:45:50Yeah.
00:45:51That's not going to help him.
00:45:52Yes, because I know I was in jail for almost 20 years.
00:45:55Yeah, from like the 80s to the 2000s.
00:45:59Yep, he went away for a long time.
00:46:04I was formerly incarcerated in the 90s.
00:46:08And I met him in the 90s, about 95 or 96-ish.
00:46:13And he was still exactly the way he is today.
00:46:18But me being his roommate for six months to a year, I learned to understand him and know what his
00:46:25triggers are or what's bothering him or what type of...
00:46:28I'm not a doctor or anything like that, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that something's wrong
00:46:33with him and he needs help.
00:46:35You know what I mean?
00:46:36It's not real hard to figure it out.
00:46:38If a guy is shitting on himself and you walk right past him and you see that he can't get
00:46:43up and stand up by himself and you don't even bother to call 911, that's everybody's problem.
00:46:47You know what I mean?
00:46:47That's not just this person's problem.
00:46:50He needs to sit and talk to himself a lot, which means to me he's schizophrenic.
00:46:55He's hearing voices because he's answering them.
00:46:57He's not in a drug psychosis because he don't get high.
00:47:00I know him.
00:47:01He's not running around here trying to say, here, can I get a hit?
00:47:05He might be hooked on smoking cigarettes.
00:47:07That's about it.
00:47:08They're supposed to have places for these people to go or you guys, somebody should be able to take them
00:47:13who understands because they're not like crooks.
00:47:17Crooks are the kind of people that you call the cops.
00:47:20This guy's sitting in front of my building, but the guy sitting in front of your building has mental health
00:47:24issues and he don't understand.
00:47:25He don't know what it means to be prohibited or no trespassing.
00:47:29He don't understand what he's doing.
00:47:30He's standing in the courtroom like this and he's moving his feet like this.
00:47:34You don't tell me that there's nothing wrong with him.
00:47:36You tell me he's okay.
00:47:37He wants something.
00:47:39He wants medication or he needs some help.
00:47:41You know what I mean?
00:47:42But guess what?
00:47:43They treat him like a crook.
00:47:44They pick him up and if he resists, they do what they do.
00:47:49You know what I mean?
00:47:49I watched it with my own eyes and I watched the pastor of a church.
00:47:54This is the pastor now.
00:47:55This is the guy who leads you to help these people and whatever.
00:48:00This is the guy telling the police officer, this guy, he pissed on the side of our building.
00:48:05Get him off of my property.
00:48:06This is the real guy coming out.
00:48:09And when the guy, when the cop puts hands on this guy, cop knows who this guy is.
00:48:13He knows he's a mental health issue guy.
00:48:15But these people should not be looked at as criminals.
00:48:19And once you do that, you're criminalizing people who are mental, mentally ill.
00:48:25You got to have the patience to take these baby steps with guys like Heen.
00:48:29You know what I mean?
00:48:30And if you can't find people to do it, then you just got to keep looking because that's
00:48:34a part of us.
00:48:35You know what I mean?
00:48:36Heen is a part of us.
00:48:38And if I walk through here, I'll go up River Street and shit like that.
00:48:41This is our problem.
00:48:42This ain't just their problem because you, the person sitting here, we got to live with
00:48:47this shit.
00:48:47We got to drive down this place.
00:48:49You know, I deal with tourists a lot and it's really, really, it's heart sore when I drive
00:48:53past the tourists and they say, what is that?
00:48:54Why are they like this?
00:48:56I have no answer for them.
00:48:58He's sitting in shit, piss, spit, and all that kind of stuff.
00:49:03The bottom of the barrel, he's being treated worse than a slave was being treated in the
00:49:071800s.
00:49:08Just think about that.
00:49:09At least they can eat.
00:49:10They guarantee gonna get something to eat.
00:49:11Even if it's leftovers, I don't give a shit.
00:49:14At least they gonna eat.
00:49:15At least they got a roof over their head.
00:49:17But they gotta bust their ass all day for this guy or whatever.
00:49:20But you know what?
00:49:21It's not as bad as being alone.
00:49:25He's alone.
00:49:26However, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi usage are allowed.
00:49:29This is a non-smoking place.
00:49:32That's so good to fly, man.
00:49:40Oh, it was crazy.
00:49:42The feeling, I was like, brrrr.
00:49:44I was like, oh, shit.
00:49:46It was like a ride or something.
00:49:49First time in five years you traveled, huh?
00:49:52It's been over.
00:49:55Five years.
00:49:56So I got involved with CIT crisis intervention training through NAMI.
00:50:04The police department is like the de facto response team that goes to like mental illness incidences.
00:50:11To have police officers that can like approach the situation in like an empathetic way or to realize that this
00:50:19is like a mental illness and this isn't someone like acting out.
00:50:23It's like a symptom of an actual illness.
00:50:26I think it's really important.
00:50:27They hear stories from family and friends and affected people.
00:50:40So CIT stands for crisis intervention training and it's a partnership between law enforcement and the mental health care world,
00:50:48the resources, the clinicians and those out there that can provide the proper resources to people undergoing a mental health
00:50:56crisis.
00:50:56The skills that we teach them will help them slow down, assess the situation that's at hand, and just have
00:51:03a better understanding of what they're looking at and how to properly deal with that situation at hand.
00:51:12Those of us playing the scenarios are going to stay in character the whole time.
00:51:16So we ask you not to laugh or intervene or, you know, make any comments or jokes or anything like
00:51:22that because we really are meant to just keep this as real as possible.
00:51:29No, no.
00:51:31No.
00:51:32No.
00:51:32No.
00:51:33No.
00:51:35Hey.
00:51:35Go away.
00:51:36Go away.
00:51:37Go away.
00:51:38How's it?
00:51:39How's it, sister?
00:51:40Hi.
00:51:41Sis.
00:51:42How you doing?
00:51:43What?
00:51:43What?
00:51:44Hi.
00:51:45I'm Officer Pukahi.
00:51:46No.
00:51:47No.
00:51:48Okay.
00:51:49No.
00:51:50No.
00:51:50No.
00:51:56Can you hear them?
00:51:56You want me to talk to them?
00:51:58Can you try to talk to them and get them out of here?
00:52:00Yes.
00:52:01Okay.
00:52:02Okay.
00:52:02Right now, because we are here, you don't have to do anything that they're telling you, okay?
00:52:06They're saying jump out the window.
00:52:08And that's the only way I can be okay.
00:52:10I can jump out the window and be okay.
00:52:12Do you feel like you'll be okay if you jump out the window?
00:52:14No.
00:52:16I don't want to jump out the window.
00:52:16You don't have to jump out the window.
00:52:18Okay?
00:52:18But they're telling me to jump out the window.
00:52:20I understand.
00:52:21And that must be very confusing and frustrating.
00:52:24But believe me, because we are here, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do.
00:52:29I'm actually listening to her.
00:52:30So that was good.
00:52:31But the general recommendation is, I call it don't jump on the unicorn window, man.
00:52:35So they're somewhere else.
00:52:37We need to stay in reality.
00:52:38So you say, it must be very scary that someone is telling you to do that.
00:52:43I can't hear that.
00:52:44Now, I would kind of go down the route where they say, do you think if I ask them to
00:52:47leave,
00:52:48they'll listen?
00:52:48Because I can't see them.
00:52:50And then they may say, yeah, if you tell them to leave, they'll leave.
00:52:52Okay.
00:52:52Well, I want you to leave.
00:52:54Did they listen to me?
00:52:56Right?
00:52:56Because I can't hear them.
00:52:58You know what I mean?
00:52:58So in other words, stay, stay.
00:53:00You don't jump on the unicorn.
00:53:01And then, you know, I got three people that are all seeing the same thing.
00:53:04The only problem is, I like the empathy.
00:53:09And then let's just, we just got to try to make sure that we stay grounded.
00:53:13Validate, but then stay grounded.
00:53:15Yeah, I think it's so important that the police officers are trained to respond to situations
00:53:23that are actually mental health crisis situations.
00:53:26It's not a crime.
00:53:27It's not a crime scene.
00:53:28And so it's an opportunity for officers to learn skills, to help them to be more comfortable
00:53:34to respond to those situations that are really about helping to keep people safe
00:53:39and to get them connected with the resources that are available in the community.
00:53:44When a family member has somebody in crisis or when somebody from the public knows what
00:53:49CIT is, they can call a dispatch and say, hey, this is what's happening.
00:53:53Do you have a CIT officer available?
00:53:55And our dispatchers can look up our CIT officers.
00:53:58Who's working today?
00:53:59Can I get somebody that's CIT trained out there to that call?
00:54:01And let them have a go at coming up with a better outcome for the situation.
00:54:10There's no one right thing to say.
00:54:13So I'm like, what I want to do is, I don't know, like a suggestion would be to be open.
00:54:25And it's the only thing I want to say.
00:54:28But I want to tell them the story where I fall down, you know, the details about having an episode.
00:54:36But then the only suggestion is to stay open.
00:54:41Again, thank you for being here and being here with an open heart.
00:54:44And we appreciate each and every one of you.
00:54:46If you have any questions on the way, please write them down.
00:54:49Here you go.
00:54:54Hi, everyone.
00:54:55My name is Clint.
00:54:57And I live with schizoaffective disorder.
00:55:01And when I was diagnosed, I just was crying because...
00:55:11Wait, hold on for a second.
00:55:13Take a breath if you need a breath.
00:55:15Yeah.
00:55:23I just wanted to be healed more than anything.
00:55:29And I'm stuck with this illness for the rest of my life.
00:55:34Permanent disability.
00:55:38I'm sorry, I can't say more.
00:55:40All right.
00:55:42Let's give you a second.
00:55:43Let's pass it over to Diana.
00:55:45We'll come back to you, Clint.
00:55:46No worries.
00:55:47Thank you, Clint.
00:55:50Hi.
00:55:50I'm Diana Sanchez.
00:55:52And I live in Hilo, Hawaii, with my husband and one of our three sons.
00:56:00And some of you may have met mothers like me when you responded to a 911 call for help.
00:56:07Before I move on to questions, I want to check back in with Clint.
00:56:11Clint, do you feel like sharing?
00:56:12No.
00:56:13Is it okay if I just don't share?
00:56:15Totally fine.
00:56:16Just wanted to check in.
00:56:17No problem.
00:56:17When you see the families in crisis, tell them about us.
00:56:21Tell them about NAMI.
00:56:22You know, we have support groups for them.
00:56:24We have classes for them to take.
00:56:25Send them to us.
00:56:26We'll take care of them.
00:56:27We'll open them up to a community and give them the support that they need so that they
00:56:31can support their loved one as well.
00:56:33Yeah.
00:56:42It didn't go well.
00:56:44I got really nervous.
00:56:46And I forgot what I was going to say.
00:56:51And I kind of just broke down because it was like emotional, just thinking about my diagnosis.
00:57:00Um, but I mean, maybe next time I'll be able to say more.
00:57:07Yeah.
00:57:08Even though you didn't say much, you did say it was powerful.
00:57:11Do you feel that way?
00:57:14I don't know.
00:57:15I was just, I don't know.
00:57:17I was just saying whatever I was feeling.
00:57:19Sometimes it's overwhelming and I don't know.
00:57:24Yeah.
00:57:28I didn't have a real life.
00:57:30Yeah.
00:57:32I had a misfortune in life, like.
00:57:35I know.
00:57:36Like, you know like boxing, the intensity of the other person.
00:57:40I didn't have a real life.
00:57:43We'll get you some more books.
00:57:45You know what?
00:57:46You sure?
00:57:46I was with a diploma.
00:57:50Mm-hmm.
00:57:50People might get problems.
00:57:52You need to take your medicine, okay?
00:57:54Okay.
00:57:55Okay.
00:57:57You need a shot real quick.
00:57:59Real quick because the police, we don't want the police to come.
00:58:03No.
00:58:03The body medicine was a...
00:58:04Remember the shot we did in the hospital?
00:58:07The body medicine was a sweet potato.
00:58:09I know.
00:58:09Let's take your shot real quick.
00:58:11No.
00:58:11I'm not even with a shot.
00:58:12Do you remember the last time the police...
00:58:14The police are going to have to come.
00:58:16We don't want the police to come and get you.
00:58:18No.
00:58:19Wait.
00:58:19Wait.
00:58:20I'm only homeless.
00:58:21My personal...
00:58:21I know.
00:58:22You're good.
00:58:23Wait.
00:58:24Wait.
00:58:24Wait.
00:58:25Wait.
00:58:25Wait.
00:58:27Wait.
00:58:30Wait.
00:58:31I know.
00:58:32I know.
00:58:34I know.
00:58:35I know.
00:58:37I know.
00:58:37I know.
00:58:38I know.
00:58:39Yeah.
00:58:40Yeah.
00:58:41Yeah.
00:58:42He's so much better though.
00:58:43Wait.
00:58:44He's him.
00:58:47He's a lot better.
00:58:49Four months ago, he wouldn't even tolerate a conversation with us or just run away and yell
00:58:53at us.
00:58:53He's not overdue.
00:58:54I think he does.
00:59:02He's not worse.
00:59:03He's just less insight.
00:59:06He's pleasant.
00:59:10That's what they call loose associations.
00:59:14You can kind of pick out a couple of words here and there.
00:59:17Mount Fuji and Tim Tindall and I don't know what else he was talking about.
00:59:23What shot was he supposed to get?
00:59:25He was just switching him to the three-month shot as of today.
00:59:30He was in the one-month shot previously.
00:59:39I was really hoping he'd take it.
00:59:43Kind of bummed.
00:59:45You see when we brought up HPD, how he kind of freaked out too.
00:59:48Yeah.
00:59:49Like, I don't have a gun.
00:59:50I didn't kill anybody.
00:59:52I don't know.
00:59:54I want to work him up, but I want him to make the connection.
01:00:00Yeah.
01:00:00You know, he's right around the corner.
01:00:05Yeah.
01:00:08Yeah.
01:00:09Yeah.
01:00:09You just need to take your shot.
01:00:11Right here.
01:00:13And then you just take one shot.
01:00:14And that's it.
01:00:15Right?
01:00:15At that point, then.
01:00:16No, no, no.
01:00:16You stay at that point, then.
01:00:18No, no, no.
01:00:18I promise.
01:00:21Relax, relax.
01:00:22Right.
01:00:26Good job.
01:00:27Good job, good job.
01:00:30Good job, I know.
01:00:32Good job, I know.
01:00:33Good job, I know.
01:00:34Awesome.
01:00:35How are you?
01:00:35You are good.
01:00:37Bye, I know.
01:00:40You have good day, okay?
01:00:40Thank you, I know.
01:00:42Good job, yes.
01:00:42Good job, yes.
01:00:44I'm sure.
01:00:45That's it, Sean?
01:00:47Thank you, guys.
01:00:47I love this, Sean.
01:00:50Don't make sure it.
01:00:53No, I can't wait.
01:00:56I don't know if that's it.
01:00:57Good job.
01:00:59I don't know if that's it.
01:00:59I don't know if that's it.
01:01:01There it is.
01:01:01There it is.
01:01:02Bye, buddy.
01:01:03Bye, good day.
01:01:04Okay?
01:01:05Good job.
01:01:06Bye, Noah.
01:01:07Yes.
01:01:11Bye.
01:01:13That was huge.
01:01:15So this morning we weren't sure that he was going to take it voluntarily.
01:01:20So usually by now the patients are, after they enforce the act order once or twice, usually
01:01:26they kind of get it that they got to take the medication or otherwise they end up getting
01:01:31taken by the police to the emergency room, which is more headache for the patient.
01:01:37It's like a huge turning point for his treatment.
01:01:40I anticipate that from now on he's going to comply with medication without having us
01:01:47call the police or anything like that.
01:01:50It's been a huge day.
01:01:51We're all ecstatic.
01:01:52Our hearts are bursting with joy.
01:01:54That was so great.
01:01:55That just made my day.
01:01:56I have pictures of him smiling and laughing now.
01:01:58Like real laughing and real smiling.
01:02:00Oh, my God.
01:02:01Oh, man.
01:02:02I was bummed out this morning.
01:02:03That was so much better.
01:02:05Oh, my goodness.
01:02:06Right.
01:02:07Yay.
01:02:07That was the win of the new year.
01:02:09We made it.
01:02:10These kind of moments make all the other headaches and underpay all worthwhile.
01:02:21I know.
01:02:22He is so good, yeah.
01:02:25All right.
01:02:26Have a good weekend, Dr. K.
01:02:29I'm so proud of him.
01:02:31Yeah.
01:02:31He's coming along.
01:02:33Look at that.
01:02:35All around.
01:02:37What are you doing?
01:02:38You just medicated him again.
01:02:40Oh, yeah?
01:02:41Yeah.
01:02:42Oh, so he going to be talking again.
01:02:44Yeah.
01:02:45Yeah.
01:02:45He freaked out the other day.
01:02:47Really?
01:02:47Yeah.
01:02:47Yeah.
01:02:47It's starting to wear off.
01:02:49You know what I mean?
01:02:49It's starting to get.
01:02:50If y'all give him the medication that lasts a few days, he needs to stay on that.
01:02:54You know what?
01:02:55This one will be for three months.
01:02:56Oh, really?
01:02:57Yeah.
01:02:58Oh, that's good.
01:02:59You know what?
01:03:00He's talking.
01:03:01It's like, are you talking now?
01:03:02Yeah.
01:03:03Yeah.
01:03:03He walked right up to me and he said, um, do you think I can get cigarettes?
01:03:08Okay.
01:03:08Okay.
01:03:09He said, can I get a dollar?
01:03:11But he called me too loud.
01:03:13I had to put him on the side.
01:03:14I said, look at him.
01:03:15He called me too loud.
01:03:16He said, I'm sorry.
01:03:17Yeah, that's not me.
01:03:17But you know what?
01:03:18That's okay.
01:03:19As long as he doesn't understand and he happy, he can enjoy.
01:03:24He was even saying this morning that he had a poor upbringing.
01:03:28Yeah.
01:03:29He had a bad upbringing.
01:03:30Yeah.
01:03:31No, it's hard to get that part of him.
01:03:33Yeah.
01:03:33To start working.
01:03:34So he's having flashbacks now.
01:03:36Right.
01:03:37I'm hoping that y'all can get him some kind of place.
01:03:39Yeah.
01:03:39I can help him out.
01:03:41We're going to work upside down for the first.
01:03:43Right, right.
01:03:43I understand.
01:03:44Yeah.
01:03:44Yeah.
01:03:45Yeah.
01:03:47That's what I'm saying.
01:03:47I'm looking for a roommate now.
01:03:49I'll see him after work.
01:03:50I'm going to go after work and probably give him something to drink and eat.
01:03:53All right.
01:03:53That'll be good.
01:03:54Have a great weekend, okay?
01:03:57He's going to do good.
01:03:58He's going to be great.
01:04:03We really wanted to thank you for last week with Ainoa Keane.
01:04:07Did you help us with Ainoa?
01:04:09Oh, yeah.
01:04:10Yeah.
01:04:10You were so great.
01:04:12Yes.
01:04:12You were excellent.
01:04:13We really want to tell you how awesome that was.
01:04:15A lot of police wouldn't have handled him like that, but thank you so much.
01:04:19We couldn't have asked for better.
01:04:19Oh, really?
01:04:20But you were just amazing.
01:04:22That was the best.
01:04:22Thank you so much.
01:04:24We really appreciate it.
01:04:37He is getting better.
01:04:39He is.
01:04:40Yeah.
01:04:40You can understand him when he talks now and he's not angry.
01:04:43Yeah.
01:04:43Or having like this little psychotic.
01:04:45Yeah.
01:04:46Yeah.
01:04:46Talking to himself.
01:04:47Yeah.
01:04:48Yeah.
01:04:49Yeah.
01:04:51And as time goes on, we're expecting improvement, you know.
01:04:54And hopefully get him in a shelter.
01:04:56Of course.
01:04:57Oh, yeah.
01:04:57Hi, Noah.
01:04:58Hey.
01:04:59Hey.
01:05:00Yeah.
01:05:01Hi.
01:05:02How are you doing?
01:05:03Okay.
01:05:03Yeah.
01:05:04I found a dollar.
01:05:05It was all quarter of someone's property on the sidewalk.
01:05:08Yeah.
01:05:08So, I just wouldn't walk down the street.
01:05:09Oh, good.
01:05:10You got a swisher.
01:05:11Yay.
01:05:11It was a dollar.
01:05:13I was 14 more.
01:05:14Ice block, ice, water.
01:05:16It's all.
01:05:16That's sunny.
01:05:18This side, this side.
01:05:19Aloha.
01:05:20Yeah.
01:05:22That's quite cool.
01:05:23Hey.
01:05:24Good luck at the ceremony.
01:05:25Bye.
01:05:27Hey.
01:05:29You know, Barack Obama.
01:05:31Yeah.
01:05:32He was in the paper.
01:05:34Oh, really?
01:05:35Mm-hmm.
01:05:36And in the year 2007, he came on the paper in the community in New York.
01:05:41He didn't declare war.
01:05:43I guess, I know what happened.
01:05:44I'm from, I'm from Boala.
01:05:47Oh.
01:05:47Small.
01:05:47Yeah.
01:05:48Yeah.
01:05:49I'm naive.
01:05:50Honest.
01:05:51You are so good.
01:05:53But look at you.
01:05:55Yeah.
01:05:55Yeah.
01:05:56You stay safe.
01:05:57Okay?
01:05:57I know.
01:05:58High five, I know.
01:05:59Okay?
01:05:59Hey.
01:06:01Face glory.
01:06:02Yeah.
01:06:02Face glory.
01:06:03Praise God.
01:06:04Stay safe, okay?
01:06:05I know.
01:06:05It's my favourite guy right there.
01:06:07Yes, he is medicated now.
01:06:08He, um...
01:06:10His father and grandfather were judges.
01:06:12Oh, oh.
01:06:13He comes from a really well-to-do family.
01:06:15Supreme Court judges.
01:06:16Yep.
01:06:16Wow.
01:06:17Yeah.
01:06:18He's just...
01:06:19What is he on?
01:06:20He's gonna be his fourth shot?
01:06:21That's his third right now.
01:06:23That's his third, yeah.
01:06:23He's gonna be on his fourth shot.
01:06:25But before, he...
01:06:27He would literally jump up, scream, especially me.
01:06:29I would trigger.
01:06:30She could kind of talk to him.
01:06:31Oh, yeah.
01:06:32But he, I would trigger the crap out of him every time.
01:06:34Oh my God, I love my Noah.
01:06:36And I like that officer.
01:06:38He talks to him so good.
01:06:39Before, he didn't like officers.
01:06:41I mean, no, he...
01:06:42Even when the police would come for him, he was always polite, though.
01:06:45He was always like,
01:06:46No, officer.
01:06:47I didn't do nothing, officer.
01:06:48He has always been very polite.
01:06:52I know it's always been great, actually, with the cops.
01:06:54Just that they always tend to arrest him.
01:06:56Before, he wouldn't even talk.
01:06:58But now, it's like all these memories are coming back.
01:07:01Yeah.
01:07:01And that's why, like, all...
01:07:02A lot of his stuff, he talks about school, like...
01:07:05Before, we didn't even know where he went to school.
01:07:08He...
01:07:08He is so interesting.
01:07:10Yeah.
01:07:10Like, he's come so far.
01:07:12I mean, he still has work to do, but, you know.
01:07:14Yeah.
01:07:15This is a big step.
01:07:16This is a big, big step.
01:07:17Huge.
01:07:19Leave your window down.
01:07:19Leave your window down.
01:07:20Leave your window down.
01:07:22Bye, Noah!
01:07:22Bye, Noah!
01:07:23Bye!
01:07:24Bye!
01:07:25Bye!
01:07:26Love that guy.
01:07:32After...
01:07:33I went off my meds, and I was off meds for two years,
01:07:36living on my own,
01:07:37and I had the incident with the knife and the ER, or the ward.
01:07:41My doctor put me on, like, a high dosage of pills to, like,
01:07:46just get me back on the meds.
01:07:48And as soon as I went on that medication, I had the worst side effects,
01:07:52and I had to go to the ER.
01:07:53And I had this, like, uncontrollable, like, itch, or, like, uneasy feeling.
01:08:00Like, my skin was gonna, like, peel off.
01:08:03And I went to the ER.
01:08:04I remember when my dad was driving me, and he's like,
01:08:07oh, dude, are you okay?
01:08:07And then, like, I went to the ER, and they're like,
01:08:10oh, nothing's wrong with you.
01:08:11And then with the shot, it's like, I don't have any of that.
01:08:17That's good.
01:08:17The shot is, like, I don't know, it changed my life.
01:08:23How many different drugs did you go through
01:08:26until you found the one that worked best for you?
01:08:30I think I tried three or four, maybe five.
01:08:37I think the side effects is what makes it the most difficult
01:08:40for me and other people, like gaining weight,
01:08:46sexual side effects, fatigue.
01:08:51I think those are some of the main ones.
01:08:54But that can really, like, prevent someone from taking medications.
01:08:59And something that I wanted to say to other people
01:09:03who have schizophrenia is that communication is important, too.
01:09:06Because I went, I had this one medication,
01:09:09and it prevented me from having any sexual activity.
01:09:13So I would have no sexual activity.
01:09:16And I didn't tell my doctor.
01:09:18I was just kind of, like, ashamed, you know?
01:09:20Or I just didn't want to bring it up.
01:09:22And so for the longest time I was going and suffering,
01:09:27but talking about your sexuality, your sexual activity,
01:09:32how you're feeling mentally.
01:09:34Like, the doctor has so many patients
01:09:37that they're not going to be like, okay, like, is this happening?
01:09:41You have to, like, communicate,
01:09:42because there's so many different side effects,
01:09:45and the medicine is different for everybody.
01:09:47Look at my trunk.
01:09:50Oh, that's a lower, lower, lower. Super low, though.
01:09:5378. I've got a couple on 78.
01:09:58She's almost always kind of must out.
01:10:01Oh, no. She can take a shit.
01:10:03Oh, my God. That's so low.
01:10:06Hey, Carolyn.
01:10:07Leave me alone. You're crazy.
01:10:10Oh. You're fucking crazy.
01:10:11I just want to...
01:10:12Get away from me.
01:10:14I just want to say hello.
01:10:14I don't want, I don't like you.
01:10:17Oh.
01:10:17Slapped eye, get away from me.
01:10:19Oh, shucks.
01:10:20Get away, slapped eye.
01:10:22Oh, okay.
01:10:22Fucking kill you white people.
01:10:25Get away from me, white men.
01:10:29Okay.
01:10:29I'm your enemy.
01:10:30You don't belong here.
01:10:32Have a good day.
01:10:33Captain Cook, get the fuck out of here.
01:10:37Captain Cook.
01:10:40I think a lot of people that may have misgivings
01:10:42about court-ordered treatment,
01:10:44I understand where they're coming from
01:10:46because I think our minds and our ability to choose
01:10:51is so sacred.
01:10:52That's what makes us human, right?
01:10:54You know, we choose.
01:10:55And I think when people feel like that choice
01:10:57is being taken away, that we're really violating
01:11:01at the core who the person is.
01:11:03But I believe that if the person has been so impacted
01:11:09by their illness that they're no longer able
01:11:11to make decisions that are really in their best interest,
01:11:16we as a society need to think about how we can help
01:11:20that person toward, you know, a time and a place
01:11:23where they can, you know, become able to do that again.
01:11:27I really believe that we were created to be connected
01:11:31to other people.
01:11:33That, to me, makes us human also.
01:11:37And I think when people suffer from schizophrenia
01:11:41or other serious mental illnesses that just push people away,
01:11:48you know, their humanity is just decimated.
01:11:51You know, and so you see the result of it, you know,
01:11:53on the street where people aren't able to take care of themselves.
01:11:56I think that's the saddest thing to me,
01:11:58is that I know that that person's alone
01:12:01and they're not connected.
01:12:03They're not experiencing the joy of having a relationship,
01:12:07you know, with somebody else.
01:12:09The ability to experience joy is very, very much a part
01:12:13of our humanity, I think, you know.
01:12:16And for me, it's so sad when people aren't able to do that anymore.
01:12:26Slowly and slowly, they become less resistant.
01:12:30Like I know, he recently didn't have to have the HPD assist them
01:12:34with the shot.
01:12:34He was good.
01:12:35He took it willingly on his own.
01:12:37That's awesome.
01:12:39Right now, we just, Jordan applied him for food stamps.
01:12:42Even though he didn't want it, just in, just so he could have it
01:12:47in case, you know, on the days we do visit him,
01:12:49he wants more than coffee or more than ice cream.
01:12:52We can buy him food with that.
01:12:55He's still declining shelter, any kind of shelter.
01:13:00To get them housed, they still have to meet us halfway.
01:13:04They still have to be willing and participating.
01:13:07Hi!
01:13:09What?
01:13:10What are you doing?
01:13:12I'm going to go on the sidewalk wait for somebody to buy me coffee.
01:13:16Okay, let's go then.
01:13:16Okay.
01:13:17Yeah.
01:13:17We came to see you.
01:13:19Okay.
01:13:19How you been?
01:13:20Alright.
01:13:21I see you in new clothes.
01:13:22Who gave you new clothes?
01:13:24One guy came on the sidewalk gave me.
01:13:25Oh yeah?
01:13:26I'll taste clothes.
01:13:28So where's your hat and your jacket?
01:13:30The other one.
01:13:30I took away.
01:13:31Okay.
01:13:33That was dirty.
01:13:34It was dirty?
01:13:35Yeah.
01:13:36Yeah.
01:13:36Do you need more, um, bacitration?
01:13:39Yes, please.
01:13:39Okay.
01:13:40Have you been putting it on?
01:13:42Yeah.
01:13:42Okay.
01:13:43Are you hungry?
01:13:45Why can you buy me something, please?
01:13:46Yeah.
01:13:48Please?
01:13:48Yeah, what do you want?
01:13:50Sandwich.
01:13:51What kind of sandwich?
01:13:52You know 7-Eleven have all kinds.
01:13:54You can buy a chicken sandwich.
01:13:55Okay.
01:13:56Do you feel good on the medication?
01:13:59Yeah.
01:14:00Yeah?
01:14:00Yeah.
01:14:01Are you sleeping better, thinking?
01:14:03I see ordinary.
01:14:05Yeah.
01:14:05So do you know how long you cannot come back over here?
01:14:08Yeah.
01:14:09Do you know?
01:14:10No.
01:14:11The security said you cannot come back for one year.
01:14:14Okay.
01:14:14Inside.
01:14:15Okay.
01:14:15Okay?
01:14:16Okay.
01:14:18Yeah.
01:14:19Hakam, what happened the last time?
01:14:21What were you trying to grab from 7-Eleven?
01:14:23I don't have enough money for one coffee every time.
01:14:25Oh.
01:14:25I want to get like water and anything.
01:14:27Pay me.
01:14:28Are you going to just go sit down and hang out over here now?
01:14:32Yeah.
01:14:36What are you hating?
01:14:37Well, I really have to pee.
01:14:39Oh, yeah.
01:14:39Aww.
01:14:41Do you know any bathrooms over here?
01:14:42No.
01:14:43I was going to go to the courthouse.
01:14:45Okay.
01:14:45You want to walk with us over there?
01:14:46No, I'm going.
01:14:47You want to go over there?
01:14:47Yeah.
01:14:48Okay, maybe we'll see you on our way back then.
01:14:50Okay.
01:14:50Okay?
01:14:51You're welcome.
01:14:56Last time I know what's due for his objective, not that guy.
01:14:59Oh, Wayne Wells?
01:15:00Yeah.
01:15:01In town.
01:15:03He received it without any...
01:15:05Oh, it was having a grand old time.
01:15:07Really?
01:15:09Thankful.
01:15:10He said...
01:15:10He's great.
01:15:11He smiled on his face.
01:15:12He said,
01:15:13That's a great doggy.
01:15:14Thank you for the Invega.
01:15:16I love that.
01:15:17So I said...
01:15:18He said, I know...
01:15:19I've been waiting my whole life to hear you say those words.
01:15:24How you doing?
01:15:25How you doing?
01:15:25How you doing?
01:15:26How you doing, man?
01:15:27I always tell him, I say, you're doing pretty good.
01:15:31The first thing he says, can I get a cigarette?
01:15:34I said, Jesus Christ, good Lord.
01:15:36I'm trying to tell you, you need Jesus.
01:15:39And it's the first time he laughed and walked away.
01:15:42Yay.
01:15:43So that's great.
01:15:44The progress is great.
01:15:45I hope you're hooking this up.
01:15:47The progress is great with our friend.
01:15:50And it's a little bit more step by step.
01:15:53We're taking baby steps with Heen.
01:15:55Because Heen is not the type of guy you just jump over the river.
01:15:57You got to let him put his toes and shit in there first.
01:16:00Noah.
01:16:02Tell me a question.
01:16:04Okay.
01:16:05What medication are you on?
01:16:06I don't think...
01:16:07Oh?
01:16:08I...
01:16:08I...
01:16:09I...
01:16:09I...
01:16:10I'm without a bath.
01:16:11I don't know.
01:16:12Hotel Street, Bishop Street.
01:16:14For like 30 days without a bath.
01:16:16Oh.
01:16:17My face breaking out with them.
01:16:19Yes, sir.
01:16:20Dirt.
01:16:21So I get soap and water.
01:16:23Oh.
01:16:23In Caldwell, Cagnoli.
01:16:25I always put a ride in Cagnoli.
01:16:26What about your shot?
01:16:28Shot?
01:16:29Well, you can't get him.
01:16:30No, no.
01:16:30But which shot do you take?
01:16:32Yeah.
01:16:32That's the one I was over here.
01:16:33Yeah.
01:16:34Last time.
01:16:34Yeah.
01:16:35Yeah.
01:16:36Do you remember the name of it?
01:16:38Uh...
01:16:38No.
01:16:40In Vega, In Vega.
01:16:41Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:16:43Hey, take that.
01:16:44Do you need anything?
01:16:45No.
01:16:45Right there.
01:16:46Just cigarettes?
01:16:47Yeah.
01:16:47Okay.
01:16:48I can't like one.
01:16:49Yeah.
01:16:49Go ahead.
01:16:50All you.
01:16:51Okay.
01:16:52You look good, buddy.
01:16:53Hey, take that.
01:16:54All right.
01:16:55You have a great day.
01:16:56Yeah.
01:16:56Okay, we'll check up on you.
01:17:05We'll see you later.
01:17:07Okay.
01:17:09A couple months back, I did a peer specialist training, learning how to use your story to
01:17:15relate with other people going through crisis.
01:17:18And I saw my classmate and he mentioned that they were looking for a peer specialist at his
01:17:23workplace.
01:17:25So I applied and I got it.
01:17:27So it's like a shelter for people who are in crisis.
01:17:30And then at that shelter, they receive services like case managers provide them connections
01:17:37to different services.
01:17:39But the full circle is employing some of the people that were in crisis.
01:17:44The job is actually doing me a favor because it gives me purpose.
01:17:49It gives me something to do.
01:17:51It gives me coworkers.
01:17:54And I just feel, I guess, more like integrated with society.
01:17:59It really brought my spirits up because just being isolated and kind of being like outside
01:18:06of society.
01:18:07I mean, there's a lot of freedom to just doing nothing and you're outside of society.
01:18:12But it's also kind of nice to be plugged in and have human connections.
01:18:19And like when you have a job and you're doing something, it feels good to like be needed
01:18:26or it feels like you're, that human connection that you're helping somebody but they're helping
01:18:33you too.
01:18:34So yeah, just having that connection is, I think, a step in my recovery.
01:19:10I just really appreciate you.
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