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Has anyone watched the latest episode of the documentary about Strangeways??

It was about their healthcare wing, and raised a lot of issues about mental health in prisons

I was just shocked at how different mine and the prisons definition of a mental health problem is.. How can seriously self harming men be "cleared of any mental health problems"?? Disturbed and unpredictable people, really badly hurting themsleves. How is that not mental illness?

I was also hit by the sentence describing a man who was deemed not to have any mental health problems "so it must be anger management or a personality disorder instead"

This has really made me question the validity of my own problems, how i should view my borderline pd diagnosis, i'm confused about what mental illness 'is'

Please, if anyone has seen the programme and/or has any views on this, please help me sort through these thoughts!!