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RE: The Drugging Of My Youth - A Survival Story
Your life story really shows how psychiatric services and medication does not work, there is no support in medicating people. This approach of treatment is only helping pharmaceutical companies. Psychiatric hospitals are not healing environments, they are more like prisons.
I spend some time working in mental health and like you the people I saw where not the insane ones, rather the system that got there claws into them is insane.
I'm glad to hear you got away, we need to focus more on community support and empowering people. We do have a great ability to heal ourselves,for who else knows us better. Thank you @wisewoof for sharing your story, I think you should include the familyprotection tag, this is very relevant.
Exactly! Customers not cures... Certainly felt like a prison. Lately I've been interested in working in mental health myself, though I worry it will be reminiscent of my veterinary course where I'll be expected to do things that aren't in line with my morals. I would though like to share my story with those in similar circumstances, give support and possibly lead people to healthier alternative routes for healing. I wasn't sure if it was relevant enough so thankyou for suggesting I use the familyprotection tag! And thankyou for your comment :)