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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeson" data-source="post: 8245454" data-attributes="member: 16253">I don't know what the young lady's situation was. The manager thought that she was just another tweaker. I believe if she was on drugs the police probably would have taken her in. Where I live they don't believe in decriminalizing anything. I wonder if she was having a mental health problem.Regardless of what her problem was, no one had the capacity to help. The police either didn't want to or couldn't. My money's on didn't want to. Having a social worker or mental health expert they can call on 24/7 could go a long way to help in these situations. I said something in the previous post about taking her with me because something the manager had said. He said she had tried to help them in the store. He gestured toward the icecream toppings bar and she had arranged it for them. My thought after the fact was maybe I could have given her something to focus her mind on for a time and get her away from the store. In a couple of hours it would have been very busy and chaotic. That probably wouldn't have helped her mental state. But in reality what could I have done after my route was over? IF she had somewhere to go she should have been dropped of there and not a gas station. I couldn't bring her home. I know of only one shelter and I don't know if I could have dropped her off there at 6am. It's shameful how the mentally ill and/or drug addicts are treated. I don't know what I could have done. In the end leaving her there was the only real option. Can I ask how she might have been treated in this situation in Sweden or Finland?Sorry, but clearly this has struck me. I needed to share. It's probably a tl;dr but I hope not.</blockquote>

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