I joke a lot, on my blog, to show that people living with mental illness have hearts, souls, and funny bones, like everyone else. Then I hear serious stories of mental illness/psychosis that stop me dead in my tracks. A woman, living in San Diego, had severe self-harm command hallucinations from psychosis, and inadequate emergency medical care, leading her to gouge her own eye out while at Sharp Grossmont Hospital. Although this situation may be out of the ordinary, it should be a wake up call to the public at large. We need compassionate people in government to go to bat for us. We need to speak and educate about mental illness. We need to protect our mentally ill population. We need funding for better mental emergency care, better training of medical staff, and far better medical attention than is currently available. We cannot brush the mentally ill population under the rug! We have to take care of them!


https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Woman-Blames-Sharp-Grossmont-For-Self-Inflicted-Injury-During-Psychotic-Episode-507702541.html