CLEVELAND — The News 5 Investigators have discovered you are waiting longer and longer in local emergency rooms. And it gets even worse for those suffering from mental health issues.

When Mark Colella was just 20 years old, it began.

“You start thinking you’re somebody else. Or you think the CIA is after you,” he said.

Colella found himself experiencing manic episodes with delusions of grandeur, strange, intense energy and racing thoughts.

“There’s not like societal brakes on what you’re doing,” he said. “You’re just kind of like doing whatever you feel like doing in the moment.”

Colella told us one time he hopped a fence at the ballpark in Downtown Cleveland and ran the bases just because he wanted to do it all while having a manic episode.

“Luckily, most of the police officers have

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