P.S.  YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE...USE NKM2 AS YOUR SOLACE AND PLACE FOR UNDERSTANDING.....YOU ARE SAFE HERE...DAVEY

DEAR DAY MEETS NIGHT,  I HAVE SUFFERED PTSD FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS....SERIOUSLY, I GOTTA TELL YA, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!! AND IN A PERFECT WORLD, JUSTICE WOULD BE YOURS...UNFORTUNEATLY WE LIVE IN AN IMPERFECT, UNJUST WORLD. THE VERY SYMBOL OF OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IS A FEMALE STATUE HOLDING A SET OF SCALES, WEARING A BLINDFOLD...I'M AND OLDMAN, BUT MORE THAN THAT, AN OLDER SOUL, AND CAN TELL HOURS OF STORIES THAT WOULD MAKE US BOTH RAGE, CRY, AND BE LEFT EMPTY AND EXHAUSTED, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?  FOR ALL THE YEARS THAT I KEPT THOSE STORIES ALIVE IN MY MIND AND RELIVED THEM, I CAME TO REALIZE THAT ALL THEY DID WAS DETROY MY "TODAYS" MY "NOW" AND I GOT TIRED OF LETTING MY INJUSTICES CONTINUE TO RUIN MY LIFE ANYMORE!!!  I KNOW WHAT IT IS TO WANT JUSTICE, TO BE DRIVEN BY IT'S PROMISE, BUT I ALSO LEARNED, AS YOU DID BY THE RECENT HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE, THAT THE ONLY JUSTICE IS FOUND IN MY OWN MIND...KNOWING, ACCEPTING, FORGIVING, THE WAY THINGS ARE SO THAT I CAN CREATE A BETTER REALITY FOR MYSELF...I'M NOT SAYING ROLL-OVER AND DIE, I'M SAYING THAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW THE LIMITATIONS, YOURS AND THE SYSTEMS, AND MAKE THE MIND CHANGES THAT ONLY YOU CAN MAKE...I'VE BEEN ANGRY MOST OF MY LIFE, AND HONESTLY, ALL IT DID WAS TEAR ME DOWN AND COST ME EVERYTHING...I DIDN'T ROLL OVER, I JUST DECIDED TO STOP PLAYING INTO THE EMOTIONAL PAIN...I WENT THROUGH IT, BUT CHOSE NOT TO LET IT DESTROY ME...YOU CAN KEEP FIGHTING AND KEEP GETTING MISUNDERSTOOD AND ABUSED BY THE SYSTEM OR TAKE BACK YOUR LIFE AND START REBUILDING....BUT NEVER FORGETTING!!!!  GOOD LUCK, YOU ARE NO LONGER A VICTUM IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO BE....DAVEY

i do so, know how you feel. i'm sorry you had to suffer thru that horror, which re-constituted your original horror yet again.

Why is it that the police, and others in a position of authority, can flagrantly abuse our rights as citizens, under the auspices of "mental distress/illness"?

The Answer: (unfortunately) Because they CAN

Because even if we, "the mentally ill" TRY to stand up for our rights, WE'RE IGNORED.

WE'RE MENTALLY ILL-So therefore we have no rights. Once we set foot in the offices of a mental health professional, we automatically surrender those rights, because we have stigmatized ourselves as being "deficient of mental capacity" for even trying to gain some relief from our suffering.

i, as you; also suffer from chronic PTSD. i also suffer from severe depression.

Six years ago, after having been the target of a malignant narcissist- i found myself "devalued and discarded" by what i thought was a human being- whom i had been brainwashed to believe was my true soulmate, the true love of my life. For most of the six years before; this man turned my life into a living chaos- he destroyed my marriage, my family, my professional standing and my finances.

Upon discovering that he had absconded with all my money, i had a phone conversation with him, during which i stated that he had effectively destroyed my life. i hung up, and in sheer desparation called my best friend to commiserate and let off some steam. (Little did i know that, from over a hundred miles away, he had called my local police and stated that i was suicidal)!!

The local constbulary drove into my yard, no lights, no knock on my door, and just kicked it in. They came blasting into my house like storm troopers, up the stairs and into my bedroom. They tasered me, while still on the phone with my friend, and forcibly had an EMT crew strap me down to a gurney and carry me off to the hospital.

i had kept stating thruout the whole ordeal, that i WAS NOT IN THE LEAST SUICIDAL, that i had just lost all my finances to this lurid little excuse for a human being, and was naturally, quite upset about the whole matter, including being jacked out of my house in full view of the neighbors. At the hospital, i continued to try to explain my position, but was met with almost abject cruelty on the part of the ER staff. They stated, that as i had previously sought treatment for depression from the local "mental health office" (more than seven years hence) that i had to be placed "under watch" until a psychiatrist could assess my "condition".

That took three days!

I was relegated to a small room with two beds and a guard. There is no psych ward in our local hospital anymore. i was brought medication by a nurse who would not talk to me, would not even tell me what i being given. i was told that refusal to take the medication would result in my being restrained and it would be forcibly administered.

My friend,as well as my family had tried to intervene on my behalf, they were led to believe that i was quite bonkers and "not fit to talk to anyone". They were told that the police had been given serious reason to believe i was quite suicidal,and, given the fact that i had sought treatment for depression, they had every right to "hold" me for 72 hours.

After three days, i was allowed to see a psychiatrist, the same psych i had consulted years earlier. By this time, i was quite calm, knowing that if i even so much as raised my voice, i'd find myself stuck in this tiny hole for even longer.

Once i explained everything to the doc; he summarily released me with the promise of getting my BP checked and keeping in touch with him if i DID suffer any depression symptoms.

Efforts to attain legal representation were beyond me as i had no finances with which to fight this horrible treatment at the hands of those charged with "service and protection".

THE PLAIN TRUTH IS; PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE FOREJUDGED BECAUSE THEY HAVE SOUGHT TREATMENT.

EVEN THO WE'RE "MENTALLY ILL"- WE STILL HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS BERNIE MADOFF AND PHIL GARRIDOS. (NOW, WHOSE REALLY MENTALLY ILL HERE?)

We must stand up for ourselves, we must force legislation that will give us our rights, the same rights any taxpaying citizen of this country has. TO BE TREATED LIKE HUMAN BEINGS AND NOT RABID DOGS.

How did my little "friend" the narcissist achieve this? Because he comes from money and money talks.

He comes from some old blood highborn family that allows him to roam about the state, wreaking havoc in the lives of the women he targets. After discovering what exactly he was, i found that i was not his only victim. This guy makes Ted Bundy look like not much of a threat! The victims still continue to pour out of the woodwork; and he continues on his merry way, happily seeking out another target.

His family is more than willing to clean up after his messes, because "well, he hasn't killed one yet"

No one but me. i died six years ago- i have nothing now but to awake to that horror every day- relive all that horror every day-i have nothing -i have no one- just the blank stares of my family, who know i'm as good as dead.

SUICIDAL? Why bother? i'm already dead.