The system is so screwed up. People who need emergency help with their mental illness can't get it, but those who don't really need emergency help at all are filling up the beds! It's maddening. If only mental illnesses were as visible as a flesh wound.
Although, just to be the devil's advocate, I'd argue that anyone faking a mental illness is probably in need of psychiatric help anyway. Most of the time they probably don't need to be hospitalized, but I'd definitely recommend therapy. They're attention-seeking for a reason. Probably because they were deprived of it, or something to that effect.
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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee
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.
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Oh god.
That makes me sick to my stomach. What an awful trigger to experience in what's supposed to be a "safe place". I'm sorry you went through that.