So we know many people wind up here and wind up CTB'ing because of psychiatric assault. Suicide rates skyrocket after medical incarceration and assault REGARDLESS of whether the person was suicidal before they were locked up.
jamanetwork.com
And it's highest among those whose communities blame them for what happened to them. There's a really good thesis on institutional betrayal trauma here.
I use this pro-choice space because I care about talking to people who respect each other's medical and end of life decisions, and don't blame each other for abuse they've experienced.
After a user here wrote about how she previously forcibly drugged non-consenting people, she began DM'ing me without permission or invitation, about how these people brought the assaults on themselves and how right and good she was for doing this to them. I care about warning other survivors about this behavior.
Now, of course, our dear @Ashu has been talking about how this makes me a "problem person."
Yes. We know.
"She poses a problem because she exposes a problem."
He says this is because "feeling bad" about having stripped, groped, and non-consensually invaded the bodies of inmates, could kill users here.
Of course, going through psychiatric assault and then being told "that HAD TO happen to you, it was justified to do that to you," can also kill people.
It does kill people.
We know it does.
For survivors this may be useful but also graphic. It's not just you. You never made them do any of it.
Death is so much more appealing than their "help." As much as I want to stay to support other people who've been through it, my own exit gets more and more urgent as even here I face pro-force harassment.
Suicide Rates After Discharge From Psychiatric Facilities
This meta-analysis quantifies the rates of suicide after discharge from psychiatric facilities and examines what moderates those rates.
jamanetwork.com
And it's highest among those whose communities blame them for what happened to them. There's a really good thesis on institutional betrayal trauma here.
Carly Parnitzke Smith Dissertation Abstract
dynamic.uoregon.edu
I use this pro-choice space because I care about talking to people who respect each other's medical and end of life decisions, and don't blame each other for abuse they've experienced.
After a user here wrote about how she previously forcibly drugged non-consenting people, she began DM'ing me without permission or invitation, about how these people brought the assaults on themselves and how right and good she was for doing this to them. I care about warning other survivors about this behavior.
Now, of course, our dear @Ashu has been talking about how this makes me a "problem person."
Yes. We know.
"She poses a problem because she exposes a problem."
He says this is because "feeling bad" about having stripped, groped, and non-consensually invaded the bodies of inmates, could kill users here.
Of course, going through psychiatric assault and then being told "that HAD TO happen to you, it was justified to do that to you," can also kill people.
It does kill people.
We know it does.
For survivors this may be useful but also graphic. It's not just you. You never made them do any of it.
Death is so much more appealing than their "help." As much as I want to stay to support other people who've been through it, my own exit gets more and more urgent as even here I face pro-force harassment.
