This brilliant,thank you for making it.You speak the truth,something has to be done to challenge this oppressive abusive psychiatric treatment and system.We need to speak out more and brave people like you are part pf this change.We all need to speak out more.
It's been this way for about 200 years or more. Mentally ill people have always been abused because no one knows what to do about them, so they are regarded as a nuisance and frightening. Psychiatry isn't about treating or curing or relieving suffering, it's about subduing and controlling. The solution is to bring an end to psychiatry.
A brilliant exposition of the reality which is called mental health, and in fact is an example of bullying taken to such an extreme that it destroys people who don't understand what is going on.
I've been on antipsychotics for 2 years and in that time have put on 7 stone. I've gone from having a healthy BMI to being obese and although I'm told that the ones I've been put on don't make you gain weight that clearly isn't the case. In that time I've been in and out of hospital 5 times, having been put on section 3 twice. They can't seem to find the right balance between stability and sedation with my medication and when I don't take them I get forced medication in hospital and refused tablets in the community. It looks like I could be on an injection for many years to come.
Jersey Shore University Medical Center emergency room guards also "pulled down my trousers" for no good reason whatsoever. I simply told them I did not want to wear stigma paper clothes scrubs. They never warned me what they would do to me if I did not submit. Only psychiatric so-called "patients" wear scrubs. Those with bodily injury and sickness can wear the clothes they wear on the street. It only got worse from there. And I witnessed horrible abuses.
I've tried Anti-psychotics and hated them. Their so sedating they numb the mind, and they think their helping. They make things worse. How people can take these thing I really don't know.
(Saxon Suite (Tameside) | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust) In May 2017 Felicity Braine called me up on my private number to inform me that I had been banned from visiting my partner on the Saxon ward. I have been with my partner for 17 years and my partner depends on me for support. Felicity Braine asked me a number of questions relating to comments I've posted on the internet about my partners treatment while my partner was a patient on the Saxon ward. Felicity Braine asked me if I had posted comments on a video posted on facebook by Rebecca, Ward Manager of the Saxon Ward. I said "yes I have and why would that be any concern of yours we have the right to free speech". Felicity Braine replied "well we feel it's harassment". Felicity Braine then told me that she had contacted the police and that, the police would probably be taking action against me, Felicity Braine also told me that she had taken legal advice. No police action was ever taken against me in May 2017 or any legal action taken against me, because these were idle threats made by Felicity Braine to intimidate me from making legitimate complaints about my partner collapsing on the Saxon ward and the struggle to get them to treat my partner with respect and dignity while being a patient on that ward. During this same telephone conversation with Felicity Braine in May 2017, Felicity Braine asked me if I had been filming on the Saxon ward, she also asked me if I had told a nurse on the Saxon ward as I was leaving the ward after visiting my partner, that I was keeping a log of everything. In May 2017 Felicity Braine entered my partners room on the Saxon ward and told her that she could only see me for 20 minutes off the ward, despite the fact, that my partner was not a detained patient in May 2017. Again in May 2017, Felicity Braine asked my partner the following question while my partner was on the Saxon ward "does Roy hurt you because if he does we have people you can talk to". "are you afraid of Roy". "does Roy give you any money". Again in May 2017 Felicity Braine told my partner that I had harassed patients on the Saxon ward. You must understand that all these trumped allegations by Felicity Braine are designed to draw attention away from my legitimate concerns about my partners safety and treatment on the Saxon ward. In May 2017 I called up the Saxon ward to ask them if they were CCTV cameras in operation on the ward, they gave me the reply "there's no CCTV cameras on the ward Roy". It is no coincidence that Felicity Braine will always plant unhealthy suggestions in my partners head like, "do you have dark thoughts" before her a Thursday review, then my partner will go into her review with the unhealthy suggestions that Felicity Braine has just planted in her head. My observations are, that Felicity Braine is putting every obstacle that she can think of in the way of my partners recovery. There is no doubt in my mind that I am in a constant struggle to make sure that my partner is treated with respect and dignity while she remains on the Saxon ward. And there is no doubt in my mind that all my complaints and concerns about my partners safety while she's been on that ward, have been legitimate complaints and concerns.
