I Needed Support. I Got Handcuffs. - City Limits

I Needed Support. I Got Handcuffs. - City Limits

“Coercive interventions are costly, traumatic, and ineffective. Community-rooted care, grounded in trust and lived experience, is how we build a system that prevents crisis instead of punishing it.” Outside Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx. (Photo by Adi Talwar) Last month, I was in Harlem—the very community I serve as a peer specialist—when I found myself spiraling after days of little sleep and emotional overload, sparked by recent work wit…