Tag: torture

Standard psychiatric care is coercive (yes, the United Nations calls forced treatment torture)

As a person who has experienced involuntary commitments, seclusion, restraints, forced medication, and intentional humiliation as part of my “mental health” treatment, I am still working through the severe and persistent effects of force and coercion. Being in relational dynamics in which I had no voice and in which I was not treated as a human being with viable thoughts and legitimate feelings impacted my sense of self in ways that were incredibly destructive. I didn’t have a word for it when it was happening. Torture was something that happened to prisoners of war in faraway places and in terrible movies. It was not something that happened to young Americans in modern hospitals. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

In honor of the woman I witnessed being tortured

moon through the trees Since I learned and posted about the UN report that explicitly called forced psych treatment torture, I've been haunted by a memory of something I witnessed during a hospitalization as a very young woman.

Since posting about the UN report that called forced psych treatment torture, I've been haunted by a memory. It was something I witnessed during a hospitalization as a very young woman. I have my own radical experiences of such torture. I wrote about it in 2007 here. It's not what I've been struggling with in the last few days, however. Instead what plagues me is knowing that this is happening everyday, all over this country and nothing is being done to stop it.

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