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In this video, in addition to her personal story, Helene shares the need for a paradigm shift in psychiatry and she does this from the perspective of the professional and the survivor – a rich and powerful combination.
However, it should be considered that even in the presence of a violent demonstration of dissent, the response of a state governed by the rule of law cannot consist in the use of health treatment, but in the use of police action and criminal repression.
"I had a sister who was a couple of years older than me, who suffered from very bad anxiety in adolescence, and my mother always came and was afraid, she was afraid of that anxiety. And he always said that "take this, take diapam, take that, take this, now you have to go to Auroora" and I saw that it was terribly bad, that anxiety. Later I have come across that everyone is afraid of psychosis and that psychosis is a terrible misfortune for a person."
It is not a problem that fear and powerlessness enter the work. It only becomes harmful if care providers do not recognize it or run away from it. Coercion is then the escape route par excellence.
Another challenge is to find psychologists who have any reading about damage caused by psychiatric drugs and who do not interpret the option of not using them as "resistance to treatment".