when those with mental health issues are treated as criminals

My question is
How many individuals with Mental health conditions are treated as criminals instead of being given the help they need?

I think instead of judges sending these ones to jail or fining them they should be given the treatment they desperately need to get through.

This may mean putting these ones under the mental health act, MHA compulsory treatment order. Or just recommending they go to some sort of rehab programme.

Ive just recently had to go to court 3 times now in total and Im a person with serious mental health issues that affect my life everyday. Can I say the stress thats put on me overtime of waiting for court appearances, and going to court appearances really is not fair on someone with so much on their plate already, especially when this court case is regarding actions that took place because a severely suicidal person was trying to end their life on one particular day.

I did not mean to put people in the situation they found themselves in, and wish i could take back what happened, but the desire to end my life overtook everything else. My reactions, and the way I conducted myself that day was not whom I am day to day. This came from a place of a girl who was so desperate to get out of her life.

Instead of being given the help I need I have been charged with an offence. Which I don't feel is fair treatment. Police are even starting to feel that I need supervision which is just the icing on the cake and when you try to explain to your lawyer and your lawyer tries to explain that to the police the police have their back up like they are trying to prove a point.

I told my lawyer I am not a danger to anyone else but myself please pass that on!

even still I feel very uncomfortable in this situation and the fact is now I am being judged by the police and they are viewing me in a negative light.

I wonder how many other people have been in this situation where they have been treated as a criminal rather than got the help that they need because they were in a state of desperation caused by mental health issues.


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