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One of my neighbours is clearly not well, so she sometimes just screams for several minutes at a time. She sometimes repeats this in intervals over an hour or so. She’s not in distress and she neither wants nor needs help. She just screams. It’s not that big a deal except when she does it when I’m trying to sleep. She’s loud enough that earplugs don’t really solve the issue.
I don’t really know what to do here. I’m thinking of trying to sound proof my apartment but that feels a bit silly. I could also tell her to duck into her closet when she needs to scream, but I don’t know her well.
You live besides dyarikku?
But that does sound really irritating.
It isn’t great.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Maybe report it to social services or ask the police to do a welfare check anyway.
I am absolutely 100% not calling the police on someone for being mentally ill or being annoying
I would generally agree. I wish healthcare professionals responded to wellness checks instead. The first time I was hospitalized, though, I went to a school counselor and talked to them. I don’t remember if it was a piglet (campus security) or the full grown thing that drove me to the ER, but it wasn’t a doctor or therapist or anything. What I mean is a welfare check is usually doesn’t have the same vibe as calling the police to catch or arrest or even scold somebody. But also it’s totally fair not to want to call police on them at all; they have a bad track record with mentally ill folks.