be careful what you wish for. I can say that staying in a forensic unit, it was a maximum security facility and would qualify as a prison rather than a 'hospital',

for a month, with men and women mixed together, some violent criminals who were being evaluated and me, who was psychotic and driven into a paranoid fear of the police, after they had been banging on my door regularly for months,

well I didn't stop for police once when driving and that landed me a month in a 'forensic unit'. It's true by then I was psychotic but I never broke the law while psychotic before.

I found there is a very thin line in my behavior and now I do have to remember to always obey the law. After my last break with reality I lost that inhibition, which is really quite scary.

I'm scared of who I was, who I can be and what happened to me. It was a step up from prison but not a place to recover from psychotic episode.

I feel sorry for all the mentally ill people warehoused in jail instead of getting treated.