Candybear,
Thank you for sharing your diagnoses. You somehow can relate to what what I'm complaining about deep inside of your heart. I assume you also been hospitalized against your will as will, right? What goes on inside a hospital that isn't criminal should be kept private regards if it's a police report or not.

Heres what I'm trying to point out here and I hope you could understand being a mental health consumer, not a journalist. Say for instance.. I start having psychotic features and to make things worst, I start having my HIGH Bipolar moment, it's much stronger than any other highs that I get. I feel like I'm in the top of the world. I'm no longer a regular citizen, I'm a SUPER human. I can do things that no other humans can do. I start taking off my cloths in public because I feel that my clothes are keeping me from expressing my true self. I start screaming, “I'M (Bleepin) GOD! OBEY ME NOW YOU PATHERIC MORTALS!” Now someone is witnessing my behaviors and then calls the police on me. The police officers comes the scene where I'm naked from top to bottom They cuff me and take me into the ER to have me assessed by the ER psych. I decided that I'm not going to let these mortals have full control over me so I manage to get lose... I start running around the hospital, Naked. Unfortunately a cop who is trying to stop me from leaving the hospital falls down and injuries himself, maybe having an abrasion to the knee area. I ended up getting captured and transferred into another department.

Should somebody from the media who reads police report everyday exploit my mental illness in a form of an article for the world to see? What if I happen to be a kind of person who enjoys reading my news paper and within the next couple of days I request a newspaper inside the psychiatric hospital (I feel much more stable) and I start to read the newspaper and found an article that describes exactly what happen to me, yes the article doesn't mention my name but deep inside I feel violated because It's telling the world ( my newspaper has articles on line) about what happen on that day where I felt psychotic including my manic behaviors.

I occasionally watch the news. I try to avoid watching it all the time because it triggers me. I do know that they sign off with their names and the news station. I know that their out to get ratings, however it's just immoral to release this kind of information on somebody who is sick. They haven't violated a crime, just sick.

Unfortunately theirs a lot of people out there that aren't fully educated on self harm. They automatically assume that a person who selfs harm is an attention seeker. I was label with this lots of times, I just choose to ignore it and laugh at those people deep inside that they don't know what the hell they're talking about

In my opinion a journalist who writes a medical article should explain in education terms what the specific illness their writing about and how could it effect the human body, etc. I know I would enjoy reading these articles

I'm sorry for firing you up over my rant. I didn't mean to by a long shot. I enjoy expressing my feelings, it's the best therapy for me