Category: forced treatment

the rise of coercive treatment in psychiatry and society

cover from book your consent is not required. for coercive treatment in psychiatry

I never stop being aware of is how unsafe it is to be vulnerable in this society. The below book takes a magnifying glass to what is happening all over society, under our noses in the name of psychiatry. Coercive treatment in psychiatry is standard care. Anyone who doesn't fit into the mainstream is vulnerable. Rob Wipond has written a book that takes a detailed look. If you’re not aware of just how brutal and coercive psychiatry can be, it’s well worth understanding. Some of it is so extreme it’s hard for those uninitiated to conceive.

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Healing sexual and psychiatric assault

Triquetra symbol of hope Sexual assault, psychiatric assault and the patriarchy

Those of us who have both been sexually assaulted and then assaulted by psychiatry have wounding so deep that nobody listens to us really - nobody listens to both a woman and a crazy person. ...

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Stranger *** (inside the psych ward) By Steven Morgan

a psych ward hallway Stranger*** By Steven Morgan

By Steven Morgan - Tonight will be a Haldol night. The newly minted nurse will say, This is going to make you feel better, and I will duly reply, Ok, anything. She will tell me to lean forward over the table and pull up my gown. I will feel cold air crawl like fingers around my torso. She will tell me it’s going to feel like a prick, but only for a moment. I will feel the skin on my ass cinch around the needle. The tranquilizer will swim out the chute in a billowing yellow cloud. She will announce, Good job, jerking back. ....

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Suicidal thoughts are treated like a crime

a piece of barbed wire Suicidal thoughts are treated like a crime

so REALLY?? they tell us to be sure to ask for help. What do we do when there is no safe "help" available? Until we are, as a society, willing to answer that question people will continue to die without being offered a chance to share and thus process their pain.  Calling 988 the current number for suicide hotline is also unsafe. Suicidal thoughts are treated like a crime. They will report you and send out cops to your home. Rob Wipond is writing a lot about this these days (2025).  A system that criminalizes pain rather than supporting that person with love is sick.

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Retaining agency while getting care

balloons in the air Retaining agency is not resistance to treatment...it is in fact a sign of health. I was thinking about another catch -22 in the mental illness system recently: The mental health system tells clients/patients/consumers that they need better boundaries while expecting them to ignore their boundaries.

The catch - 22 I thought about the other day: The mental health system tells clients/patients/consumers that they need better boundaries while expecting them to ignore their boundaries.

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This is how we get locked up and force drugged for no good reason

picture of woman wth hand up trying to block an assault locked up and force drugged

If you've never seen the cops (or mental illness professionals) out of control for no good reason whatsoever you should watch this. This is how we get locked up and force drugged for no good reason. (video on site)

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Perceived madness will unleash unprovoked violence (violation) by cops, authorities etc.

I don't spend so much time thinking about this stuff anymore, but as a writer I've found that there are many people who need to hear this from someone else because they think they're the only ones such heinous shit happened to. Or worse, they have come to believe they deserved the heinous shit because there is no one in their environment to reflect to them their real beauty and any sort of belief in their inherent well-being (we all have that).

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Bridging the Benzo Divide: Iatrogenic Dependence and/or Addiction?

By Richard Lewis -- As the benzodiazepine crisis spreads throughout the United States and other parts of the world so does the debate within the benzo victim/survivor community about important definitions of key medical terms and about safe and successful paths to healing and recovery. Does “iatrogenic benzo dependence” and “addiction” represent completely separate medical and social phenomena? If they are to have distinctly different scientific definitions, can they also (at the same time) intersect in multiple ways in people’s actual real life experience? And what is the medical and social significance of exploring these concepts and seeking unity of understanding and purpose? Before delving into the content of this debate let’s briefly review the social context from which this “Benzo Divide” has emerged.

Marijuana for Mental Health Conditions?

By Will Hall -- Cannabis (marijuana) is now legal in two states, legal for medical use in 23 more, and polls show the majority of Americans support legalization. As a counselor working with people diagnosed with psychosis and mental illness I am often asked about my clinical -- as well as my personal -- experience with medical cannabis. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Parallels in obstetrics and psychiatry

By Leah Harris -- As I got deeper into the research about childbirth options, I began to notice the commonalities between the natural birth movement and our movement of users and survivors of psychiatry. The first commonality is that we are confronting industries – the birth/obstetric and psychiatric industries, respectively. In both cases, the trend is toward the most invasive medical technologies, which also just happen to make a lot more money for these industries. When it comes to mental health – as we all know, it’s institutionalization, shock, and expensive psych drugs. ... (post included information and a trailer about a new documentary too) [click on title to read the rest]

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