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(03-15-2014, 04:57 AM)The People Wrote: It has been my experience - and I worked with mentally ill as a non-T as well as being multie - you will not be locked up as long as you are working with professionals and not hurting yourself. I am a bit confused. Is the body age under 18? If so you will be protected.

Nobody here can tell you what to do. We can just tell you what worked for us to get into a better place. Some people still have family contact but I chose to cut them out of my life a long time ago. It gets lonely but I needed to do it for me. But I couldn't have done it without out help from my T. So if you are strong enough to be out a lot what do you want to do in order to keep yourselves safe?

Hello, People.

Where we live, the laws are nothing short of discrimination. You legally can and will be locked up against your wishes and the wishes of your parent/guardian, whether you are hurting yourself or not. It happened to us and to other patients in the hospital with me. There were scars and wounds on us still, but at the time we saw the "professional" that sent us to the psych ward in the hospital, we were not in the habit of self-injury for a week, and had made a point to never, ever do it again. I stressed this to him, but he did not believe it. Also, to answer your question, the body is now 19. Age does not make a difference to them. We were deemed unfit to make our own decisions, so they took us.

And as far as keeping us safe, we have been arguing with each other about going back into therapy, but I refuse to trust anyone in this area after what they did to us. We do have our own agreed-upon set of rules now, however--and one of them is that no one hurts the body. Without needing to conceal our feelings anymore, SI is a crutch far less appealing, so this rule has been relatively easy to follow.

-Arlen

(On an unrelated note, I am not "coddled" by anyone. I am just the more well-known, and therefore more accepted person by people outside the system.)