likewater - I'm sorry for your terrible experience. I worked in a jail years ago. One day the pdocs there got so mad at the police for bringing in someone who clearly should have been brought to the local psychiatric hospital. The police officers agreed with the pdocs. I heard them say, "We came here because the local psych hospital turned us away and would not accept this person as a patient. We have brought the person here because we are too concerned to leave this person wandering on the Interstate."

The Director of the jail had been in the local paper quoted as saying, "I am in charge of the largest psych facility in the state. Something is wrong with this picture."

That psych facility is where I now get my care. If I become homeless, I might try to get arrested. But probably not, because the conditions at the jail are much worse than they used to be. What kind of a country are we becoming?

I hope you are in better circumstances at this time.

Rose