when someone loves you – really loves you – treat them gently. text your best friend back when you can. tell your mother you noticed her haircut and that she was right about that recipe. tell your grandfather that the boats in his bottles are the best things youâve ever seen. be good to the people who are good to you. itâs the least you can do.
Me: Wow tom hardyâs eddie brock is so relateable
Critics:Â wHAT DO YOU MEAN heâs a hungry, stressed, bisexual, monster-fucking, unemployed, auditory-overstimulated, disillusioned, anti-capitalist in a shitty apartment with a drinking problem!!!
Saw a post earlier thatâs like âpsych wards arenât evil and scary! fearmongering does more harm than goodâ and itâs like have you spoken to literally anyone with a negative experience with institutionalization, of which there are Many
I spent all of a WEEK in a modern and fairly chill psych ward and still wanted to die bc it was like a minimum security prison minus weight benches and the opportunity to go outside. I was only allowed to leave bc I agreed to start taking medication for a condition I didnât have.
Many people have had much worse experiences than that, including actual straight-up abusive conditions. Mental healthcare is desperately in need of reform so maybe letâs not embrace our Shiny Constructive CBT-Approved Outlook to the point where we ignore that lol
people wanna believe that there are good and bad institutions and that the bad ones arenât good because of abusive staff/whatever. no one wants to acknowledge that, regardless of the reason, removing someones personal freedoms literally causes trauma because it would mean a radical shift in how we treat everyone from criminals to children
Additionally, the reality of psychiatric institutions is that once you are admitted to inpatient you are not allowed to leave. Even if there were âgoodâ and âbadâ wards you wonât know which is which until the doors lock behind you.
⌠and thatâs if you had a choice to go in the first place.
What sane people refuse to comprehend is that psychiatry is militarized. It is built around the fundamental assumption that there are certain people who must be controlled through the application of force, if necessary. If you are one of those people it is impossible to interact with the âhelpâ they seem to want us to get without being threatened, or worse.
This is institutionalized violence that we cannot get away from just because a particular therapist or doctor might be ânice.â
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