For Hopefull,

I really relate to what you wrote- when I am in the psychiatric wing of the hospital, I like the attention and the deep bonding so much I often ask to stay longer. Sometimes I think, that comment that person just made I will leave a suicide note then they will know how ill they made me. I am very into the state of illness, that's why I spend so much time on this board. So little people know just what it's like to be mentally ill I fantasize about them being in my shoes, if only for a day. I want to scream it from the rooftops, I'm ill & you're not it's unfair you will never know or understand. I think with the stigma it is natural for people to want to express their illness in a way that fights stigma and gets the true truth out.