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» DennisAllen - Lockdown I work in the mental health field and I find that these articles are very realistic but I have not seen it in my place of work. It is a ugly part of our society that does not have proper safety controls to safeguard against it. Shouldn't the biggest safeguard be ourselves? For every human being is entitled to certain basic rights. It's the individual that makes up this society needs to take control of the situation to make a change.-- posted by DennisAllen » Kasecy - Terror in Lockdown First let me start of by saying that I'm 18 yr old female and from the time I was 16 until the time I was 18 I was in many hospitals for depression,suicide, drugs, abuse just to name a few. Out of the many hospitals I have been in there was one that even thinking about it hurts me. This hospital which I wont reveal names and very known throughout the country. I was at this hospital in it residential treatment facility for adolescents for 9 months. Those 9 months were pure hell. If you can imagine yourself waking up each morning knowing that today you have to fight for your rights as a human being and as a person fighting with an illness. You'd get pretty tired of it. When I was at this hospital there main ways of controlling you was to call as many people as they could (mostly men)to come to the unit and hold you down in what they called "MANAGE". I've dealt with a lot of abuse issues and especially rape. But when they have like 5 and 6 guys come at you because your upset and are yelling it just brings the world to your door and you cant control it. They use to hold me down leaving bruises all over my body then they would pull my pants down to my knees and give me a shot in the butt. In the butt. I cant say what it feels like right now discussing this to you. But it just made me more out of control and caused me to have flashbacks to the days of my abuse and rapes. So all I could do was fight for my life. Because it felt as if I was reliving it again. Not only did they do that but the would put you in seclusion and leave you there between 24 and 72 hours. Sometimes they would put you in restraints and make them so tight that my hands would turn purple and be bruised from the restraints. I cant tell you how many times when I was in these restraints that I urinated on myself. Because they wouldn't let you up to use the bathroom. During these managements sometimes I would come out with bloody noses, black eyes, and many bruises. They say it was because I was so out of control that they had to hold me down tight. Then how do you explain the black eyes and bloody noses. I trusted these people when I first went into the hospital they was supposed to be there to help me. Well all that I have gotten out of it is more flashbacks and very bad Panic attacks. Help to them is controlling you. -- posted by Kasecy » VGaines - Help End Psychiatric Abuse I apologize for the "canned" nature of my post. I am practically physically disabled and am attempting to reach as many people as I can as quickly as I can. Please forgive me for not posting a more personal request to join with me and others in the fight against psychiatric violence, coercion and injustice.Please read or browse the following and seriously consider what you can do to help advance this most important social cause. Peace in struggle, **************************************** I have been surfing the Net looking for individuals and organizations such as yours in an attempt to elicit the aid of ordinary citizens to help end psychiatric abuse in the United States and abroad. Although my email (and site) addresses issues in the United States, I know that psychiatry is practiced much the same worldwide. It is a horror story of another face of America that denies millions of its citizens basic human rights while mocking, denigrating, abusing and traumatizing them. The last thing you want to do in one of these "treatment" centers is to demand your legal rights for you will then be assaulted and injected with powerfully debilitating psychotropic drugs as happened to me. Millions of others are not so fortunate. They desperately need the help of Americans like you, who are not stigmatized with the label of mental illness, to stand up for them or with them to demand that all citizens enjoy full rights of citizenship and protection from false allegations, violence, mistreatment and abuse. How can you help? You can educate yourself and help educate the public. You can join marches, protests and demonstrations. You can respond to alerts. You can stand up in defense of the allegedly insane. You can make the civil and human rights of the allegedly insane as important as the rights of any other group of people. And, if possible, you can link to my site to make the cause of social justice for psychiatric clients/survivors/victims/escapees more easily accessible to the general public. Please join with psychiatric survivors to humanize this profession and to end the tyranny of psychiatric coercion. Thank you for seriously considering what I have written here. The address of my Web site is: http://www.crosswinds.net/~vdgaines/inde... At the minimum, I hope my site will make you think differently about so-called mental illness and the functions of psych wards. If I'm lucky, perhaps, my site will inspire many of you to get actively involved in this fight for justice for some of the most vulnerable people in society. Remember these psychiatrists act in your name. Is this really how you want them to treat fellow citizens who have committed no crime? Do you really want them representing you and what America stands for? I hope not. Most sincerely, Victoria D. Gaines (vdgaines@crosswinds.net) A PROUD Nut Case -- posted by VGaines
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