WOWEE…check out the Dear Mental Health Professional Hashtag on twitter today. Here is a taste. These are not isolated experiences, now, are they? There are hundreds of more tweets just like these!
See also my writing on the chasm between professionals and “patients” I’ve sat on both sides of the proverbial couch and have seen some pretty uncomfortable stuff. I do my best to expose it. I want to thank all the tweeters doing the same today.
There are grateful tweets mixed in the sad and painful and angry ones too. What is horrifying is the sheer volume of re-traumatizing experiences people share.
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals I’m a complex unique individual, not a text book hypothesis. Please treat me with dignity & respect
— Girl Interrupted (@Girl_Interrupt_) August 10, 2013
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals Please remember my normal is not the same as yours! — Simply Positive (@PositiveSimply) August 10, 2013
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals Medication isn’t a cure-all and can seriously harm people without helping them at all. Find other treatments! — Katy Gray (@SchizophrenicGB) August 10, 2013
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals Sometimes all I need is a few kind words. Why do you so often seem reluctant to offer that? — Were Horse (@Were_Horse) August 10, 2013
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals Please don’t talk to me like I am six. Or stupid. — Were Horse (@Were_Horse) August 10, 2013
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals It is terrifying to be pinned face down, even if it is on a crash mat! Please try other things first love me — Simply Positive (@PositiveSimply) August 10, 2013
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals Don’t treat me as you would treat a child I’m an educated adult, can’t we just talk?
— ♡ Little Fruitloop ♡ (@Glass1ncision) August 10, 2013
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals Avoid labelling- simplifying a person’s problems to a word. Be aware of ‘name-calling’ #somethingIvenoticed
— J (@nobody_knows) August 10, 2013
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals And if/when ppl don’t respond/comply, you think upping the dosage of words/actions/opinions is a good idea — Jon Beech (@_jonb) August 10, 2013
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals A person is a person. Not a diagnosis. — Amanda O’Connell (@amanda_stand) August 10, 2013
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals , it is not helpful if you accuse me of attention seeking. — Nina of Nothingmuch (@notwaving) August 11, 2013
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals Please don’t encourage me to ask questions about the meds you’re prescribing me only to be evasive when I do. — bipolar voice (@bipolarvoice) August 11, 2013
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals i’m sure there are amazing professionals out there, i just haven’t met them.
— Nadia (@Nadiabegum96) August 11, 2013
#DearMentalHealthProfessionals if you need to use uppers & downers in your own life, you’re not qualified to help others # YouKnowWhoYouAre
— Little Bear (@IamMissBear) August 11, 2013
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