You know in 2004, after my second suicide attempt, I went inpatient briefly, in a psychiatric ward of a hospital. (It was a nice place otherwise, BTW. I certainly never thought it was bad or that I was abused there.) But they put me and the other patients in this bizarre group therapy session, where they asked us all to tell them our deepest, darkest secrets. Like I said, it was supposed a psychological therapy session, and they did that. I had nothing to hide, then or now. But that got me to thinking. In my country at least, you can do things things like that bizarre group therapy session, under the guise of mental health. Because different rules apply. You're trying to help that person, and others, the logic goes. Yeah, right. I just know in my country, an officer of the law could never do that. Sit you down and start interrogating you like that. He'd have to first have you sign a waiver that you were given your Miranda warnings. And if you refused to cooperate or asked for an attorney, the meeting would end and you could leave. Unlike group session like that above, where actually you might be under court order to attend, too. We have to rethink mental health in my country. The laws I mean. Either therapists and doctors have to stop trying to uncover their patients' crimes. Unless they suspect obvious abuse somewhere that they are doing. Or mental patients need to have the exact same rights they would if they were being treated as a criminal suspect. Because criminal suspects often have more rights there, ironically.
