About some time ago i received a phone call about a family memeber that has schizophrenia. She and another family member were arguing over a financial issue. The argument became soo heated that the family member with the mental disorder was threatened to stop with her craziness or they would 302 her. I thought that was completely UNFAIR! How could you take someone's illness and turn it against them like that? There was no fists fights, no damage was done, and no one was harmed. It was just words back and forth, you know a verbal agrument. The sad part for me in this is that the authorities and hospital staff are going to believe the member that called to 302 her. They wouldnt even take into account the woman with the illness is sane, normal, or has done nothing wrong. Its so scary because i have Biploar and my parents are aware of how my illness can effect me and the things that i do, but what if one day i get really angry or do something she doesnt like? Will she take advantage of my illness and blame everything on it and not think that its just me being me? Will she 302 me or worse? I dont know and i dont want to find out. I mean as pple with mental illnesses do we have rights? Are there pple on ourside and understand that we are just human and have human emotions to? That our illness are not the cause of everything little thing we do. It saddens me and i dont even feel safe in my own family because of it.
Anyone's comments would be greatly appreciated!!!! Thanks for Reading
That makes me mad just reading about that because I have had that very thing happen to me by my loved ones. Of course, this was before any of us knew I was bipolar, but still. I know the impact is has on the person and its SEVERE. I suffer tremendously from PTSD thanks to that, so I understand where you are coming from. I do not believe it is fair to use someone's disorder or disease against them. It is not fair to "threaten" someone by using their disease against them. That is completely wrong and unfair and unhumane. I don't know what to say to make you feel any better really, but I can SO RELATE and it really is a bad situation and an unfair one. Its as if the way the law it set up, the law is immediately supposed to side with the "normal" person and the hell with the mentally ill one. They act as if we don't have a voice. That is SO WRONG. :( Ugh... makes me so mad to hear of stuff like this happening to others. I wouldn't dare do something like that to my worst enemy.
Stephanie
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