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I want so badly to convey how the honest and warm treatment I received made me experience some kind of meaning. How it contributed to my healing and how the courage to show emotions and trust in people's own resources can be life-changing for people in need of support.
Several thousand people are forcibly treated in mental health care every year, and unfortunately very few have the opportunity to have their case assessed by the court. Through these cases, the spotlight will be put on the state's responsibility for the concrete compliance with human rights in psychiatry.
Mutual support is a way of relating that is not intended to "help" but simply consists of giving and receiving support according to the possibilities of each person.
When talking about mental illnesses, it is especially problematic if the center of the solution attempt is a theory that completely ignores what the experience feels like.
Do you want tea or coffee? What does this question have to do with transgressive behaviour, social insecurity and PTSD? More than you might suspect at first.