I'm glad you get on well with your support worker. Sadly though, there will come the day when they will move on. I don't know if it's the same everywhere, but I think generally when it comes to their strict policy, care workers that leave their post are not allowed to maintain contact with clients, despite no longer being employed.

Personally, I hate that rule, because we're still people who didn't ask to be disabled anyway. Like you said, some can be like a surrogate friend or a brother to you when you are lonely. But the rule is supposed to exist to preserve the important boundaries.

Unfortunately, the authorities are probably on their side. I was put in a cell tons of times. Fortunately, I've never did a 4 day lie down in a police station cell before. The worst day to get arrested is a Friday if Monday is a public holiday. Then your case isn't called until on Tuesday. But I have been in jail a lot. Even a jail cell is more fun. You can open a vent to get air in. You can sort of see outside. The bed is more comfy. You have a TV. You can talk to a person in the same cell who is hopefully helpful and sane. Plus, you get recreation sometimes. It's obviously not a place you want to be, but I'm just saying that it can be tolerable until you get out.

In a cop shop, you get brought some food and cups of water or tea. Rank tea. Some officer keeps opening the hatch on the door and asking 'You all right?' seemingly every few minutes so you cannot switch off. It's no fun being in a cell like that at all. And they have to ask you the same boring questions every single time you are arrested, even if you were just arrested like a few days beforehand.