[HelgaDE]

This is a rant

I'm sick of tired of seeing the media embarrassing those who are having a mental meltdown. Why is is necessarily to write up an article and do a story on someone who doesn't want to be in a mental hospital and does have a history of doing violent things to themselves? Why is it the media business? Why do they they break the Hipaa law so they can tell their story with no remorse? Not only they embarrass the individual but they also endanger the persons reputation by adding the mental health stigmatization onto the person who simply had a bad day?!?!?

I say SCREW the media! I hope one day they can violate my privacy so I can take their sorry little asses to court and sue them for millions!!!!!

Heres a recent article that has me flaming!!!

Travis Gettys, WLWT.com Story by wlwt.com
Story by wlwt.com

CINCINNATI --

A police officer was injured Thursday afternoon trying to stop a patient from running naked outside University Hospital.

Authorities said a patient in the psychiatric ward ran through a corridor on the hospitalss sixth floor, carrying a butter knife, as nurses transferred her to another department.

A nurse attempted to catch the patient, who has a history of injuring herself and whose name has not been released, but was unable to stop the woman.

A University of Cincinnati police officer fell and injured his knee as he chased the woman, who authorities said injured herself during the incident.

Doctors evaluated the officer and the patient, who was apprehended, for their injuries, but authorities have not described those.

Stay tuned to News 5 and WLWT.com for the latest information.

I'm actually thinking about writing up to this Travis Gettys from WLWT and really give him something to talk about!

[lenjan]

1) Police records are public record. If you don't want to be the subject of a story, don't do anything stupid in public and get arrested.

2) They didn't identify the woman by name, age, description of looks, hometown, marital status, or anything else, so she's pretty well unidentifiable.

[HelgaDE]

1. police records are considered public, however medical records is not and are confidential. I didn't know having a mental illness is against the law. I thought those who suffer from mental illness was taken to a hospital, not be put in jail and have charges pending against them for being who they are.

2.of course they didn't release any information regarding to this woman because the hospital doesn't want to get sued for breaking the hipaa law. I bet your *** that if they found out the name, they wouldn't hesitate at all to release it to the public.

[lenjan]

I spent 10 hours at a trial yesterday of a man accused of sexually assaulting a developmentally and physically disabled woman. It took me 3 hours to write the story to avoid being even remotely graphic, though the testimony was excruciatingly graphic, and my paper's policy is not to disclose names of assault victims. Most feel the same way.

Let's not paint the whole profession with a broad brush, shall we? Stereotypes are just as damaging and untrue when applied to professions as anywhere else. (eg, everybody makes lawyer jokes, but it would be a tough world without lawyers.)

I'm sorry you're upset, but I'm also not the a$$hole you're making me out to be by association.

[HelgaDE]

What you're describing is totally different then someone who has a history of self harming. What that guy did was criminal... what this woman did was medical. you're somehow avoiding the real issue here and the reasoning behind my anger torwards the media. At least self harmer's such as myself don't hurt people but ourselves. I assume you work for the media by writing article? Just tell me one thing... why is it necessary to tell the public what a mental patient has done inside of a hospital? What business is it of yours and to the rest of the public to exploit this persons medical history?

My problem mostly has to do with this ~~~> “who has a history of injuring herself and whose name has not been released”, “Stay tuned to News 5 and WLWT.com for the latest information. “

By the way I've never called the media assholes, you only assume this.

[lenjan]

I self-injure, I have bipolar, and I have PTSD. I will tell anyone who asks. I also hold a full-time job (yes, in the media), and as part of that job, I read police reports and criminal complaints every day. I encourage you to do the same. Go down to your local police station and ask to see one shift's reports so you know what goes in there. It is *entirely* possible that all the information you are ticked off about was in the police report and gotten legitimately.

TV people, if you ever watch TV news, always sign off with a tag, including their name and station (station IDs are required by the FCC) and usually "stay tuned," since they are, after all, in the business of getting ratings. You might watch TV news for a week as well and find that out too.

Frankly, stigma exists because people don't know the truth about things. Maybe that story was the first time anybody ever heard of SI and is checking it out on the Internet even now. I wouldn't be so quick to assume it's a bad thing, or that you know how the information was gotten, either.

Sorry for interrupting your rant -- I'm done now. There is always more than one side. It pays to keep that in mind before you go jumping people.

i saw a frustrated rant. but, anything can be taken personally.......

i agree with HelgaDe...hope i got name right. the media tells way too much now.......there was nothing socially redemptive in that story. nada, nothing....

[HelgaDE]

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