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.

I am in USA, CA.

No, it was just an older trained police officer that I talked with.

Ok then I've miss understood the question. I thought you were being questioned in relation to an alleged crime. In the context of them wanting to section you I think actually being forthcoming was probably the right move.

And by all means seek further mental health help. Either through your educational institution or the NHS. I'm assuming you spoke to someone from the mental heath crisis team? Maybe you could talk to your GP about a referral to the mental health team more generally?

What should I have done instead? It was a police officer that seems to be older and seems to know how to deal with milder form of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Bipolar Disorder and anger issues, like me.

There was no lawyer, my psychologist was worried that I could be a possible danger to myself or others. So, that principal called the police, the police came and talked to my psychologist and me and I sound so rational to him that he thinks I am not risky enough to go to mental hospital, but suggested me to go through mental health program that is supported by school I go to.

But I still don't trust myself and that police asked me questions too narrow. The police officer also explained to me that I am not in trouble in any way and was worried about my mental health at this point.

It would be unwise to ask anyone other than a lawyer acting for you to prepare a statement for the police. You can tell your lawyer everything that happened and this conversation is protected by privalidge. That means the lawyer has a legal right and duty to keep what you say secret even if the police or courts ask him what you said. You need to speak to a lawyer. If you don’t have a lawyer ask for some one called the duty solicitor and when he comes make it clear to him you have mental health issues.

It's just even harder to follow their advice when I go from hypomanic state to depressive state. I have history of delusions of guilt.

I am sorry for venting my frustration like that.

Where did I find this statement?

I will go read what you told me.

I strongly encourage you to listen to your lawyer. Their job is to protect you in court. It's true that far to few lawyers know how to deal with a mentally ill client. Something really should be done about it. But your lawyer is one of the few people you'll meet in the legal system who should be unequivocally on your side.

Also good lawyers also know that failing to mention something you rely on in court can hurt your case. What your lawyer will usually do is help you prepare a statement containing everything he thinks you should tell the police, come with you to the police interview and have you read that statement out and then refuse to answer any other questions. If your lawyer has prepared you a statement (and of course assuming everything in it is true) I suggest you just read the statement.

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.

I am sorry, I am trying my best to think clearly.

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.

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.