Letter: We must modernize mental illness treatment

I’d like to share my experience with mental illness in response to the article “Police shooting of boy with autism in Salt Lake City leads to calls for more crisis intervention teams.” In 2017, I experienced a psychotic break. It took nine months from onset to be diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder. Without belaboring the details, I experienced visual and auditory hallucinations and panic attacks nonstop for three months of that period, and I would not let anyone take my car keys