Some layers don't understand how my mental health crisis works. Police should be able to help me, even if I incriminate myself a little bit.

To be honest, lawyer's advice is not helpful to my situation because I have serious mental health crisis, to a milder degree. I would rather confess anything to the police and explain that I have Bipolar Disorder and serious anger fantasies about killing my former bullies. I would rather get false accused of a crime at first and later on be found innocent and ask for help.

I know lawyers say that anything you do or say can be held against you in court, who the *** cares? At least it's the first step for me to get help.

I am sorry for venting, dear lawyers, please stop! I am not feeling well at all to not say anything to police. I am suffering in silence.

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  • Well, I've just watched a few of the police interrogation videos, and I guess they have a lot of cases, and as long as they can close a few cases and get some bad people convicted and imprisoned, I imagine that it would be less for them to worry about while they are on the job on the streets. I mean I think they'd rather a bad person be in jail than doing something bad on the streets. 

    I don't think it's ever a good system to be guilty first and have to prove your innocence later. Why? Well it has to do with trust. If you are not trustworthy and criminalizing yourself, then people will just think you're lying about everything you say and do, and in that case, how are you going to prove your innocence? You might be relying on evidence to prove your innocence, but sometimes the police just needs some kind of confession in order to get the suspect imprisoned.

    If you want help, the lawyer is trying their best to help you. If you want help for your mental health, go to a psychologist. But don't put your bets on looking guilty and then being proven innocent, because you're taking a huge risk in doing so, and the lawyer is trying to tell you that it's not a good idea, and I don't think it's a good idea either.

  • Here is a logical question, what was my school psychologist supposed to do? Not only do I have Bipolar Disorder, I have serious anger of fantasizing killing my former bullies. And I know that I have normal mood now, because I was doing something productive that is therapeutic, I have history of planning to commit suicide fast to the bridge and that is before I started having mild hypomania. I would rather falsely incriminate myself first, they find me innocent and I get the help I need.

  • Not how it works, Even if the police detain you initiating the process in getting you assistance and support it's unfortunately down to the decision of the individual officers if he believes your unwell. most of the time they give you a warning to avoid filling out the paperwork.

    Any serious incidents where you endanger another will result in your detainment and likely imprisonment in a prison not a mental health unit.

    You need to request a needs assessment through your local authority. to gain access to the help your looking for. unless it becomes a safeguarding issue which let be honest schools, doctors and the police don't take serious you'll be expected to contact the local authority.

  • According to PACE, if you tell the police you have a mental health condition or learning difficulty, they need to get an "appropriate adult" to support you. This may be a friend, relative, health professional or social worker. If you cannot name somebody you want, it will probably be the on-call social worker or somebody from the community mental health team. The whole point is that you don't confess to anything you didn't do and that the interviewer does not ask leading questions or plant ideas. Ideally, the appropriate adult should be somebody who has been trained in the PACE Codes and can ensure that the correct procedures are followed.

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  • According to PACE, if you tell the police you have a mental health condition or learning difficulty, they need to get an "appropriate adult" to support you. This may be a friend, relative, health professional or social worker. If you cannot name somebody you want, it will probably be the on-call social worker or somebody from the community mental health team. The whole point is that you don't confess to anything you didn't do and that the interviewer does not ask leading questions or plant ideas. Ideally, the appropriate adult should be somebody who has been trained in the PACE Codes and can ensure that the correct procedures are followed.

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