Hello,

First time posting to Reddit.  Sorry if I ramble, I need advice regarding my 34-year old son I'll call him Mick. (not his real name).  Mick lives in northern California and has a high-paying tech job. Recently a few months ago Mick broke up with his girlfriend and mother of his daughter.  It was an ugly break up and she eventually got a restraining order on him and moved to Georgia.

On Monday morning I woke up to a text message with a photo of my son with a rope around his neck.  that he sent claiming he said he was going to commit suicide and was going to hang himself.  He also sent this text to his father, brother-in-law, ex-baby mama # 1 and ex-baby mama #2.

Of course, we all went into panic mode and notified the local police.  (We live in the midwest).  The police said they would not go and check on him because they were afraid he might have a weapon and did not want to put their officers' lives in danger - I totally get that!  So for two days, we did not know if he was alive or dead because police refused to check on him.  They said they would keep trying to call him on the phone, but that's all that they would do.  We all tried calling him, but no answer.  Finally, a few days later, Mick picked up his phone and said the suicide attempt failed and he was hanging for four hours but his neck was too strong so he only blacked out.

A little background on Mick - He abuses Adderal and smokes a lot of pot.  (I grew up in the 60-70, so pot is really not a big deal to me).   Needless to say, Mick has always been a huge pot smoker (since his teens) and it has really affected his life in major ways... his education, losing jobs, relationships, jail, probation, major auto accidents, etc.  He has been in treatment in Hazeldon three times never completing treatment.

Mick has now taken to posting pornographic photos of himself and sending them to me, his dad, his family, his ex's,  ex's parents.  He has sent e-mails to his ex-girlfriend's mom and got her fired from her job making false allegations about her.   The list goes on and on. Most of it sounds unreal, but unfortunately, it is very real.

I have asked the mental health crisis team in his area for help and they said they won't go to him without the police and the police are still refusing to help.  

Mick has flooded family and friends with over 600 texts per night along with pornographic photos of himself.   We have continued to call the police with no help at all.

I know my son has a mental illness and he needs help.  He has threatened both his dad and me with slitting our throats if we come there.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get help for my son?