From Mad in Norway: Recent studies from Norway, Sweden and Denmark show that coercion in mental health care often leads to retraumatization, increased symptom burden, and impaired social functioning. Instead of stabilizing the patient, insecurity and stress are amplified (Brænden et al., 2024; Eriksson et al., 2023). Research shows that the brain responds to coercion by activating the stress response system, which inhibits the prefrontal cortex and worsens emotion regulation (Bentsen et al., 2023; Teicher et al., 2016). Porges’ polyvagal theory and Siegel’s relational neurobiology show that healing occurs in safe relationships, not in coercive frameworks that trigger ‘fight-flight-freeze’ or social withdrawal. When the patient is met with empathy and validation, the brain’s capacity for learning, integration and attachment is activated (Porges, 2011; Siegel, 2012).
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I agree, coercion will never heal … and it becomes quite psychopathic when one is dealing with a computer / phone / email hacking narcissist psychologist whose followed you around the internet for years, and believes he should be in charge of you, rather than God.
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