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"People are suffering," said psych survivor and counselor Tracy Myers. "The idea that sticking them in a cell and giving them drugs is a solution for this is insanity."
Governments and treatment providers don’t want to publicly expose “the dark heart” of our mental health system, experts say
Getting support from other psychiatrized people, outside of the system, has the potential to be mutual—not being “treated” or talked down to.
No one is safe from psychiatry’s project of medicalizing and treating every variation of human emotion and behaviour.
School professionals are under pressure to help funnel children into the mental health system and onto drugs. Let's build alternatives.