Also, the legal system tends to not deal with mental illness well, either. A friend of mine that was at college was trying to kill himself, and I called the police there since I was so far away. I told them to break in and save him, which they did. When the found my friend unconscious on the floor, he had also left a pot pipe out. In their infinite wisdom, they decided that this was such an egregious offense that he needed to be charged. So, they saved his life, and then they charged him with possession of drug paraphernalia, an horrific and heinous crime if there ever was one. Due to prior convictions of drunken disorderly(my friend was a severe alcoholic by age 17 to cope with his depression, and it got much worse when he left for college), he was put on an electronic tether for three months. Needless to say, that story does not have a happy ending.
It has been my experience that cops have little to no understanding of mental illness, but due to the little psychological training they do get, they think they know everything about the human mind.
It has been my experience that cops have little to no understanding of mental illness, but due to the little psychological training they do get, they think they know everything about the human mind.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
