JoyTalks Episode 3 details what people reported happened to them emotionally when they are arrested. This part of the study is not about guilt or innocence, it is simply what people go through, and may help people understand how mental illness develops in the aftermath of an incident that leads to an arrest.
The variety of emotions and the gravity of them is astonishing. Until you hear people tell it, repeatedly by different folks, it is hard to comprehend – and it better explains to those who have never gone through it what happens to the mind, and why it is traumatizing at an extraordinary level.
