You have a lot of courage. I commend you for discussing this.

I haven't been hospitalized in 15 years, but I still remember quite vividly the faking that occurred there. It was frustrating to hear stories of how those fakers were getting admitted at regular intervals and so on. What made me livid, was the professionals actually listened to those fakers and gave them axis 1 diagnoses, while me an autistic was told my personality was disordered. After that, I couldn't get care, even when I was desperately ill with psychosis. Apparently, it was caused by abandonment issues. Huh?

It turns out, I was misdiagnosed. Obviously, the fakers were too, but since they had Axis 1 conditions, they got way more respect than I ever did.

Last October, I mentioned faking and bogus hospitalizations to my psychiatrist and she admitted to me it was common.

Why the hell would someone want to show their self-injury scars? I remember, patients used to do that to new admissions. My very first morning was a lesson on how to self-harm, something I never did. A patient came in my room and introduced herself. She then showed me her scars and told me how she did it.

Sorry, I am not in a very good mood tonight.