SmileHere: Please don't refer to someone else's diagnosis and experiences as "lesser". I didn't even state my diagnosis - bipolar 2 (and bipolar is up there with Borderline, Schizophrenia, and AsPD for having people think you're insane...).

I was referring to locked up as in I cannot be thrown in jail if I do nothing illegal, and there is no reason at all for others to know my diagnosis outside of medical staff. I have never gone inpatient, although I was hospitalized a few times after my first overdose. There have definitely been times in my life where I should have gone and checked myself in, but I didn't.

But even those times - "locked up" is something I, nor anyone else, deserves for simply having a disorder.