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Today we have submitted our appeal with a request for leave to appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court in the Klara case. A case about non-consensual psychiatric care that visualizes with uncanny precision the power imbalances and legal uncertainty in Swedish psychiatry in 2023.
Creative, compassionate, kind deeds and pursuits are like good medicine. There are so many creative things that can make us feel alive again. That's the adventure: figuring out what brings you back to life, what makes you feel safe, grounded, and more open to the world.
Feeling intense pain without the experience of power to do something about it can lead to unbearable despair and hopelessness. The suicidal act can be understood as not the actual denial of the will to live, or life itself, but primarily a choice to escape suffering or an unlivable life situation.
In the 22 years that I went to my mental health treatments, I made a discovery that was revealing for me. I had information about my schizophrenia, which the therapists did not have access to
That’s exactly what people’s emotions are. A dysregulated nervous system that’s begging for help (either due to an acute trigger or trauma in the past).