Mental health and justice system, etc.

I'm pretty much still sad but things (separations, deaths, etc.) take time to heal. It has been almost two months. Today was a very bad day with flashbacks and complete exhaustion and confusion. I went out yesterday and met WAY too many people. There was not enough time to respond to everything and just images today float by with the difficult ones rising to the top! I wish i could manipulate the internet better because i saw this photo the other day that SO pictures one aspect of PTSD on film. It depicted how their are two views, two 'lenses' if you will, that sufferers see or experience. Interpretation is everything. Reality is irrelevant. I thought today - why me? - you know, is this some kind of Sylvia Plath (without the suicide) thing? Does this make me a more "authentic" artist. I can't do tech stuff. Does mean i'm supposed to write? I am a very anti-social person now. Is that because i am to be alone, completely alone to write? Not sure where this is coming from but you know what i mean. I'm tired, i guess and feel like complaining. The main thing i wanted to say was about a story i heard (from the horse's mouth) - as in HEARD vs."read"!! - about her recent experience with the justice system; being apprehended under the Mental Health Act (for talking about suicide), waiting in the emerg for six hours until a G.P. comes and says "you were just trying to egg him on, right". She said - "Yeah, for sure, that's right" (anything to get home) and off she went back home in the back of the cop car. Later that day she was charged for acts of, what she guesses someone interpreted as criminal. She did not. Again, it is all in the interpretation and there are always two sides to every story. That being sad, our PTSD woman was processed under the "Mental Health Diversion Program" in the court system where those, who do not have a record and who have mental health issues can apply for and, if successful in complying with the orders set down by the court will have the charges expunged after a year. She was released to her family after having spent almost two days without her meds, sitting in a cell about 3x6 overnight, frozen with a cement slab to lie on and the most disgusting toilet she had EVER seen and probably the ultimate humiliation there (for her) was being VIDEOTAPED when everything she did, including peeing. I asked her if anyone heard her side of the story, of what you saw happen. No. They did not. She was a mental patient, had threatened suicide the night before and did not "have a story". In her state of mind, it was determined, she could not see the truth. We PTSDers are crazy but we're not bloody stupid. The whole episode, as she described it, made me ill. My therapist reminded me this week - you don't get "justice" from the courts - that's not what they're designed for!!! I laughed at how right on she was.