Was This Your Family's First Introduction to Mental Health Services in New York City?

"This is not my dad's first rodeo with mental health services," she says. "You have to wait for someone to become so delusional that the EMTs, the police know right away they have to take this person to a hospital" She recalls getting into arguments with EMTs who let her ride in an ambulance at 2 a.m. because she had no other alternate mode of transportation. 'I was lucky enough to kind of have neighborhood cops that sort of knew my building'