Did an involuntary commitment thinking loved one would be safe for 72 hours, nope they were released after 18 and we were told that everyone has some psychosis and to come back when things were worse, so what is worse than watching your loved one having hallucinations, cutting self harm, the system has failed and because of their actions our loved one no longer believes the illness is real.
*Insight refers to a person’s awareness that they are experiencing a mental illness. In some brain diseases, this awareness is impaired or entirely absent due to a symptom called anosognosia—a neurological barrier that prevents the person from recognizing they are unwell. Once lost, insight can be difficult or impossible to regain.
*Insight refers to a person’s awareness that they are experiencing a mental illness. In some brain diseases, this awareness is impaired or entirely absent due to a symptom called anosognosia—a neurological barrier that prevents the person from recognizing they are unwell. Once lost, insight can be difficult or impossible to regain.
Each story is shared by someone impacted by untreated SMI,
lightly edited for clarity, never for meaning.
Do you have an ask? If you were sitting down with your legislator, how would you ask them to help you?
Change the law that will not let me speak for the one in psychosis
