The news and most people in general will focus mental illness when there a wrothy news event . Example A drive by shooting or a robbery gone wrong where someone dies may be mention once one the news . But someone with a mental illness does something wrong its drag though the news for weeks with the public in a outrage how this person is walking the streets .We wonder why people step back and turn away when they find out you have a mental well this is why . In this country we are the black sheeps the fact are there are more mentally ill people in jails in this country then in the hospital which are all closing down due to budget cuts .

I live in Phila. Pa where there are 1 to3 killings a day but you will here little about this on the news but last week a mentally ill man acttacked someone on a train with a hammer didnt kill him or injure him bad but its been all over the news everyday with the focus on mental illness why is the public so hard on mental illness when a crime is committed . Ive been put in jail before during a bipolar melt down and they are filled with mentally ill people who committed minor crimes and spending years locked up because they have know place to go when they are released they are kept till a bed is found and guess what there are no beds . So their they set locked up for years pass their time .

Jails have become all new mental hospitals and with a public who wants us locked and to threw a way the key attitude and it all begins with the news trying to over due a story for better ratings. So **** the news .As you can tell this upsets me . Is it me or have you seen the same black list as me on the news!