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It's time to protect the welfare of people with mental illness by outlawing forced psychiatry in America. Involuntary commitment is a violation of civil liberties.
America: Where we punish people who commit crimes by locking them up, but also help people who attempt suicide -- by locking them up. Make it make sense.
May 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
America: Where we punish people who commit crimes by locking them up, but also help people who attempt suicide -- by locking them up. Make it make sense.
Those times still continue. I've had my rights (and dignity) violated more times than I can count in the field of psychiatry.
April 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Those times still continue. I've had my rights (and dignity) violated more times than I can count in the field of psychiatry.
And to be clear, when I reported the incidents to authorities my case was denied. The police even refused to press charges, claiming I deserved it. I guess since I'm mentally (rather than an illegal immigrant) the importance of preserving "due process" protections doesn't matter.
April 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
And to be clear, when I reported the incidents to authorities my case was denied. The police even refused to press charges, claiming I deserved it. I guess since I'm mentally (rather than an illegal immigrant) the importance of preserving "due process" protections doesn't matter.
If no person is to be denied due process then I wonder how we explain all the instances of my rights being violated as a mentally ill patient where I was NOT afforded due process. Like my being strangled and dragged through the hallways of the ER or my being forcibly injected with an anti-psychotic.
April 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If no person is to be denied due process then I wonder how we explain all the instances of my rights being violated as a mentally ill patient where I was NOT afforded due process. Like my being strangled and dragged through the hallways of the ER or my being forcibly injected with an anti-psychotic.
For over a century we imprisoned mentally ill people in insane asylums without due process -- people that hadn't committed any crimes and weren't even a proven danger to society. It was a serious lapse in Constitutional authority. But of course everyone just forgots that period of American history.
April 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
For over a century we imprisoned mentally ill people in insane asylums without due process -- people that hadn't committed any crimes and weren't even a proven danger to society. It was a serious lapse in Constitutional authority. But of course everyone just forgots that period of American history.
Only in America do convicted felons who are incarcerated for murder, rape, and arson get FREE food, lodging, transporation, and healthcare paid by taxpayers whereas law-abiding citizens who are hospitalized for attempted suicide must pay for their own food, lodging, transporation, and healthcare.
April 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Only in America do convicted felons who are incarcerated for murder, rape, and arson get FREE food, lodging, transporation, and healthcare paid by taxpayers whereas law-abiding citizens who are hospitalized for attempted suicide must pay for their own food, lodging, transporation, and healthcare.
I wonder if it's as horribly moderated as Bluesky is.
April 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I wonder if it's as horribly moderated as Bluesky is.
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One of the oldest euphemisms for internment camps in the U.S. actually comes from the field of psychiatry.
States still use the legal term "civil commitment" for court-ordered involuntary psychiatric confinement, or in simplest terms: prisons designed for the mentally ill.
States still use the legal term "civil commitment" for court-ordered involuntary psychiatric confinement, or in simplest terms: prisons designed for the mentally ill.
April 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One of the oldest euphemisms for internment camps in the U.S. actually comes from the field of psychiatry.
States still use the legal term "civil commitment" for court-ordered involuntary psychiatric confinement, or in simplest terms: prisons designed for the mentally ill.
States still use the legal term "civil commitment" for court-ordered involuntary psychiatric confinement, or in simplest terms: prisons designed for the mentally ill.
One of the oldest euphemisms for internment camps in the U.S. actually comes from the field of psychiatry.
States still use the legal term "civil commitment" for court-ordered involuntary psychiatric confinement, or in simplest terms: prisons designed for the mentally ill.
States still use the legal term "civil commitment" for court-ordered involuntary psychiatric confinement, or in simplest terms: prisons designed for the mentally ill.
April 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One of the oldest euphemisms for internment camps in the U.S. actually comes from the field of psychiatry.
States still use the legal term "civil commitment" for court-ordered involuntary psychiatric confinement, or in simplest terms: prisons designed for the mentally ill.
States still use the legal term "civil commitment" for court-ordered involuntary psychiatric confinement, or in simplest terms: prisons designed for the mentally ill.