Location: Los Angeles, CA
A client who attempts to guilt or manipulate their In-Home Supportive Services worker into giving them money from their paychecks.
Is this considered financial coercion? I ask because I was told that IHSS aren't suppose to give their clients money from their checks.
I'm trying to compared something which occurred to me around this time last year. This instance occurred while I was in the parking lot of a former employer. It involved a close friend of mine at the time and myself. I should note that this occurred a few days after I had been released from the hospital for a psych exam. They cleared me (though I did have an UTI). Despite being cleared, I wasn't exactly in the right state of mind. My active imagination got the better of me during that stay. Though even with a level head I can't make heads of tails of this situation and upon reflection I can't help but wonder if a friend of mine was trying to reach out for help via proxy because he felt it was unsafe to do so directly.
My friend and I were sitting in my car. We usually hang out a lot, but this night it was peculiar because she mentioned a name that she had never mentioned to me before. It was the name of my friend's sister. She never made indirect mentions of her either. The conversation felt as if I was being prepared to meet her yet was had using keywords pertaining to her personality and insecurities. My friend and I worked with this guy at the same place of employment so we knew one another. It should be noted that his sister is a celebrity. Which could also explain the need for proxy communication. She's known, but she's not exactly Tom Cruise levels of known. I state this in the case it is relevant.
I also remember my friend telling me not to look back to where she was sitting. She was sitting in the backseat. I also remember being told to close my eyes, but this one might be me trying to sort through everything that happened. I did sneak a peek at my rearview mirror to find that she was on her phone, but the duration for which she was is unknown. I did have this ridiculous idea that the hospital installed a microchip that was monitoring my thoughts after all. Even without the weird Sci-Fi thing, the use of keywords remains suspicious to me. What also makes this suspicious is that sometime after 9 April 2025 he had removed her from his Instagram account. She told me that she wasn't mad or anything; she was just confused because she said that he was the one who asked if she wanted to be friends there. My friend is known to hold grudges, but she's not the kind of person to seek revenge. I don't suspect anything like that for the record. She also has no motivation to hold a grudge against him. I should note that this also doesn't rule out the possibility that her and him weren't in communication outside of Instagram. I feel I should also note that she has lingering memory problems due to her having meningitis when she was younger.
Do you suspect it's possible that a friend was trying to reach out to me via proxy? I freaking hate how I was in such an uneasy and frightful state that I may have missed something entirely. Especially when the source of my fear was completely stupid and fictitious. What do you think?