Mad in Ireland: Mental health systems the world over use coercion as a technology of control—a mechanism to enforce compliance with treatment deemed “medically necessary” by psychiatric professionals. Coercive measures within mental health systems include involuntary detention, forced medication, seclusion, and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). However, as an understanding of human rights has expanded, and as the voices of those with lived experience has gained prominence, it has become increasingly clear that such practices can inflict profound harm—psychological, emotional and physical.
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Intentions don’t matter. My daughter experienced the forced hospitalizations and psych drugs as obliteration of her identity, hopes, dreams, quality of life. It was torture from start to finish.
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Another bereaved parent has the song and video of her genius son that testify how he was destroyed in similar fashion. Torture A to Z cannot be quantified with a stupid checklist.
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Psychiatric torture is human sacrifice in modern garb , of which the sociological agenda has been articulated. Humans are exploitative predators. The only true solution must come from within as a desire to do no harm and to turn and face the predators, rather than be like zebras who keep running.
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