This is the second part of the video about my captivity in a psychiatric hospital. I still bear the scars of this dramatic period, which was one of the main causes of my current withdrawal from the civilized world.
You're absolutely right, Dave. The problem is not so much with this type of institution as with the doctors and nurses who work there. Their purpose is only to vent, in most cases, their anxieties and frustrations on the skin of human beings whom they first consider 'inferior' and deprived of rights. It is a shame that the state does not offer any kind of protection and surveillance over what goes on behind the bars of these places of torture.
I understand that this was a different time and even a different country, but the way you describe the treatment you were given is absolutely horrible. No one, especially someone that's supposed to be treated you, should ever tell someone their better off dead. What a horrible person and a horrible place, I am so sorry you were subjected to, what sounds to me like, experimentation and torture.
Thanks so much for your support, Sidney. In truth, the situation I have described is common to most psychiatric structures in Southern Italy. We are not treated as citizens who have their own rights, but as inferior beings, 'defective', a source of problems for the society, who therefore wants us sedated or locked up, never listened to or helped.
