When you are a client rather than a patient, help becomes a privilege and not a right.
As in... They can deny or refuse help to those who behave a certain way. Or to those brought in unconscious or paralyzed who can't ask for the help themselves.
This happened because they swung in the opposite direction in self defense, after being a patient became synonymous with being a detainee. As in having help forced on them... Which isn't help at all-- it's harm-- torture-- by virtue of that very fact they do it and by virtue of their assumptions flying in the face of what the patient emotionally and spiritually and even physically wants aka needs in the general sense that is all that matters.
If you don't believe me or even the logic of it, but you still believe in "people of status," then it's worth noting that the United Nations has declared all forced psychiatric treatment torture.
Both these extremes are denial of the right of the patient to control when and where and why and with whom and for what and what help they get for what. And how it is done. The system never benefited the patient by choosing for the patient. Back then it was the system believing that those who work for the system are patients too and need help too. But it was often the worst of both worlds, not mutual respect.
The olden days was an era of repressed communication. Of "Either you already know it, or you don't deserve or need to know." Of "Either you understand and agree with our point of view, or you are insane." Of "If you don't understand that your caregiver needs you either to act this way or to be passive in that way in order for you to take care of them in order to deserve their care or else you either get kicked out to rot in the street or it gets forced on you and you forced to pay for it by being forced to obey... And pay for the privilege further overkill by being charged for the force exerted on you and labeled as further care you owe us for." Punished for being trouble we never wanted or chose to be forced to be.
The 1960s was an interesting time.
Punished and then fined for the scene we caused by standing up for human rights, in order to pay our handlers compensation for having to take the trouble to restrain us... Either directly or paying the higher ups for ordering them to do so for fun so it was the opposite of trouble for them. We get tortured to amuse them then they get paid by us for it ... compensation for us torturing THEM allegedly...which tortures us more and amuses them further.
Us saying they enjoy torturing us is usually not us projecting our own alleged attitude of enjoying torturing people onto them... It is us knowing that they are the sick ones who have framed us as the selfish evil crazy ones who are damaging society for fun.
On my criticisms of past and present psychiatry... Not all are bad. This shoe is only being thrown at those it fits. If you are disgusted by anyone it would fit then it isn't gonna fit you. And you will already know that from what I have said and how I say it.
If you are enraged by me "insulting you" with this speech then that right there proves it is aimed at you. Meant for you. You just admitted yourself that you are a psych staffer who likes and feels a need to abuse others... Mainly patients. And to cause people toneed or want or be forced to become patients.
You are sick yourself. Sicker Than 99% of the patients you abused. Not that it should matter... sick people are people no lesser. You are terrified of getting your own treatment dished out to you. So you dish it out harder in the hope that it'll get others not to tar you with the same brush. To love you more for demonstrating such sanity. And those who don't love you and who see through you will at least fear you treating them like that, so in your head that means they won't threaten you.
But it don't work like that. Positivity exists. Good is out there. The universe has standards. Help isn't harm... It is the opposite. You need help, not harm. Counseling in some form... Acknowledgment of your sentience and pain and love... Not denial of it. Not devaluing or punishment or scorn or dismissal of it.
Not to be treated the way you treated those patients of yours.
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