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Honestly as someone who's been committed if I was going to be committed indefinitely I would prefer it if the person doing that out of "compassion" just slit my throat while laughing.
Many psych wards are just prisons without activities were expressing frustration gets you immediately sedated and you're forced to fuck with your mind.
Inpatient treatment acutely works for some people, but I have never known someone chronically committed who was having a good time. Schizophrenia is pretty treatable, and only a tiny minority of people with it are ever violent towards others.
Paternalistic insitutionalising against someone's consent is pretty disgusting. I don't really care what the label is, people who aren't hurting others have a right to be free and people have a right to choose what treatments they want or don't want. People also deserve to be treated as individuals and not have behaviours assumed because some old fart in a Tweed jacket slapped a label on them.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this in like some take that this isn't a pretty rough thing for someone to be saying... But from the perspective that I want to believe the best in people and do recognise there are some situations where I can kind of understand how people reach the end of their tether to compassion with this.
It's rough. I live with daily stories from a family member that works in an nhs hospital though. We potentially have completely different opinions on how bad care and support is because of our different systems, I suspect it's slightly better here than the prison conditions you're describing of the american ones but I don't know first hand I have to admit.
I'm from Australia. Funding is so bad nurses have to supply their own pens.
When I was committed my options were watch day time TV in a room of unfamiliar people doing strange things or try to not watch daytime TV in a room full of unfamiliar people doing strange things.
Literally prisoners have more privacy and personal space, also more books and the option for classes etc. Also prisoners aren't forced to take sedatives that make you feel sick and make pissing difficult.
I'd want to kill myself too if someone forced me to watch antique's roadshow all day everyday
Yeah I spent 3 months in there. I literally keep a means of rapid and most likely unpleasant suicide on me because I am never going in anyone's cage again. That in itself sucks because while I'm quite sane, misdiagnosis is fun, I am occasionally severely depressed so it's not the safest thing to carry.
Anyway ableism sucks, humans don't deserve to be treated in ways we treat non humans who also don't deserve it because they're a bit, or a lot, different. I firmly believe that committing people to psych wards involuntarily should require higher levels of evidence of danger to others than putting them in prison would since they have less rights in one.
If people go voluntarily that's one thing, but given psych wards can force ingestion of psychoactive substances it's an extremely fucked up thing to do to someone who's just inconvenient.
Tell me to “dispose” of any human on earth like they’re garbage and I’m fighting you full stop.
You can tell me it was a poor choice of words when they fix your jaw.