Treatment Replicates the Dynamics and Tactics of Gendered Violence.
“I don’t ever think the trauma was responded to, ever, by the psychiatric system”
“Three burly people came and picked me up and put me in a secluded room, and then IV’ed me… just such significant experiences in my life, in terms of how terrible the mental health system can be”
“What I needed at that point was for someone to sit beside me while I cried and cried and cried, but instead I got locked alone in a room to cry and cry and cry.”
“I’ve always been involuntary admitted to a psychiatric hospital and always in the back of a paddy wagon in handcuffs… all those experiences have been so traumatising”
“I was very clear, right from the first admission, that I did not want to be around men, I didn’t feel safe … there should be gender-streamed areas, there should be better staff supervision.”
