Thank you so much! I am an incest survivor and domestic violence survivor who has been forcibly psychiatrized, coercively medicated, and institutionalized. I live in fear of psychiatry. In a recent mental health crisis following my mother threatening to sue me for writing about the sexual abuse in my family, my (former) best friend threatened to call 911 and have me institutionalized because I was having thoughts of self injury. I was not suicidal. And this (former) friend insists that she was within her rights to subject me to the violence of psychiatry “for my own good.” I know that psychiatry is not for my own good. Thank you for saying this.
That is where the term “hysterical” came from. Abused women were often institutionalize, for being hysterical. Men would abuse them for years, and then get rid of them by institutionalizing them.
Thank you. This is a very useful perspective. Because of the prevailing narrative I wondered if my depression and anxiety was a mental illness, but since I couldn't afford to see a mental health professional I thought there was no hope for me. Reading about the increasing numbers of people diagnosed with mental health disorders had me thinking that I must be one of the many. More recently, I have realised that I am safe and well now and can choose to move forward, leaving my past in the past and enjoying what might come next.
On a personal level I find this really reassuring and I’m going to download the resource you’ve suggested. It’s left me wondering how to access support that isn’t funnelled through a medical model. When I left an abusive relationship I was asked if I’d been to the doctor, which I didn’t do at the time. But I do need help at the moment, that much I know. Culturally there’s so much credibility attached to the medical establishment, that even though I don’t particularly know if I want to talk to a GP, my trauma almost doesn’t exist if I don’t knock on that door first.
Urgent legal action is necessary due to ongoing medical evidence. Recent evidence received by a survivor of post-sepsis shock highlights serious concerns. It discloses that her long-standing 'mystery' medical issues align with documented adverse effects found in respected psychiatric journals. A review of her past medical records from Ontario, Canada, during the period of 2004-2012 reveals a pattern of over-prescription and lack of appropriate symptomatology. As a result, she now faces chronic disability and is entitled to seek compensation for the unnecessary medications she was overly prescribed without informed consent. Or apology for the decade that she survived severely compromised cognitive impairment.
These 23 years of medical files document trauma and torture that violated every human right under the Canadian Public Health Safety Guidelines.
Beyond that her most instinctive and sensitive him an rights through non compliant medical manupation. Resulting in stigmatized family, spiritual, and social alienation.
Now defying her odds of surviving another medically mishandled nightmare of post-recovery, from non informed post sepsis shock ICU. She was placed on a covid -19 lockdown wing of an unfamiliar and very large psychiatric floor until she could walk on her untreated flesh wounds that developed while recovering. She required a year and a half of out patient wound care every other day. With no supports she endured ongoing symptoms of PTSD upon bring discharged in a taxi without any shoes or explanation of any medical causes. Other than bring told that she tested positive for the Covid -19 Virus on the day of her discharge. She was given instructions to treat her covid - 19 protocol and public safety measures. A prescribed protocol that she refused.
It was her own resolve and insight and administration skills that acquired the 800 page file that not only unpacked her Sudden onset Sepsis attatck and evacuation from her trashed apartment that all 3 department of Emergency Responders added to the narrative of ‘another suicide attempt’ that rose from the ashes of her life that resurrected beyond the lies she had worked so hard to simply appreciate being alive! Counselling others online while nurturing her Spirit that the dopamine receptor blockers, SSRI’s and all the laters FDA economic magic formula’s that completely repress spiritual intuition as well as its inherent necessity to discern, critique and willingly decide on all the important matters that women face most critically during their 30’s that she believed were wasted and erased.
The 800 pages that she had researched and validated through her online professional resources and communities. Revealed the extent of the supernatural and very scientific Creator’s restorative nature of justice and love. All of the documented medical negligence and non compliance of that prescribing psychiatrist are available for the governing bodies to do their job now.
Please, she is an ODSP recipient with all the movement disorders and metabolic abnormalities that the data was correct in predicting.
We are asking for all reputable and respected legal representatives that want this opportunity to do something good for Ontario Canada’s Health Care Crisis amidst the others.
I can agree with you Dr.Taylor,but what can you do if you don't represent an entirety of truth,I don't know how things are globally,but the conditions that women are found in after these types of event would typically lead from police to Psychiatrist to medication in Britain,they consider this to be the correct route and the most humane,sensitive one in the face of emergency;I know that this action means that you are placed on medication which removes your capacity to tell the whole truth,they can believe they are stopping someone from committing suicide which can be their response to criticism of people involved in their profession.If you have these experiences it feels like you are removed from a life that you think you understand into an experience that leads you to believe that you no longer know what's going on,which is perceived by others as a removal from reality by people who don't understand that they would behave like this or become involved in this type of description,they can even believe that this is the best and most realistic position to understand these matters from,which is absolutely ridiculous,you can tell that by what they do with people,if you become sectioned they lock you up in hospital and tell you that is because they wish to keep you safe from what people outside may do to you,when you break free and understand enough about human psychology you realise that they are looking after number one as they do have erratic people who can be considered as dangerous because they do things like pour scalding water on each other,but they don't seem to come into contact with those people apart from on their ward round where they can ascertain their personal safety and only occasionally find themself caught out in the open,I had that,I'm not violent,the Dr. turned to glare threateningly in my direction.I haven't read you using the sort of language I feel like using,maybe you still do on LinkedIn,I'm not on that anymore;this can probably read as aggressive and bi-polar depending on who you are and how you interpret individual experience.
Definitely my experience as an incest survivor. And I also hate that I have to "adopt" the medical model and the label at work/with HR to get my employer to accept my absences from work as valid. At my workplace the only valid reasons for absences are childcare, carer's leave or a medical issue with a medical certificate.
How can a woman diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder have the diagnosis changed particularly when they had been subjected to domestic violence when diagnosed?
It's very difficult,I found that out when I tried to have a misdiagnosis removed,in psychiatry in Britain they change descriptions because they don't really have that much idea of what an entire description of truth means,in Psychotherapy you are treated as having a history which culminates generally with a significant event that results with you consulting them,this can help give a person an entire description of truth,it makes it difficult if you can't do that,I'm waiting for a specific court action,but the problem is that if people deal with incomplete descriptions the experts as they like to believe themselves to be can keep adding to a description if they know that someone else can't produce one.The "Specialist" Psychiatrist told me that their version of a description of truth dealt with partial descriptions and not the entire description I believed in,you can also come across a knowledge of tactics if you complain or show them to be wrong,I said I understood things about equality that they didn't,she said she had her opinion and that I had mine and that we can both understand that,this puts a block in your thought processes because you have to agree when you have said you understand equality,so you leave and the only thing you can do is to plan or follow up with another appointment.
Thank you so much! I am an incest survivor and domestic violence survivor who has been forcibly psychiatrized, coercively medicated, and institutionalized. I live in fear of psychiatry. In a recent mental health crisis following my mother threatening to sue me for writing about the sexual abuse in my family, my (former) best friend threatened to call 911 and have me institutionalized because I was having thoughts of self injury. I was not suicidal. And this (former) friend insists that she was within her rights to subject me to the violence of psychiatry “for my own good.” I know that psychiatry is not for my own good. Thank you for saying this.
I could have written this exact narrative myself!
Dr Karen Williams. Australian psychiatrist talks about this. Two podcasts are located here - they maybe useful to people https://icl.gov.au/exploring-understanding-coercive-control-podcast-resources/
That is where the term “hysterical” came from. Abused women were often institutionalize, for being hysterical. Men would abuse them for years, and then get rid of them by institutionalizing them.
Thank you. This is a very useful perspective. Because of the prevailing narrative I wondered if my depression and anxiety was a mental illness, but since I couldn't afford to see a mental health professional I thought there was no hope for me. Reading about the increasing numbers of people diagnosed with mental health disorders had me thinking that I must be one of the many. More recently, I have realised that I am safe and well now and can choose to move forward, leaving my past in the past and enjoying what might come next.
This is so so so important! Thank you -- deeply -- for championing these truths.
PS thank you as always for your work!
On a personal level I find this really reassuring and I’m going to download the resource you’ve suggested. It’s left me wondering how to access support that isn’t funnelled through a medical model. When I left an abusive relationship I was asked if I’d been to the doctor, which I didn’t do at the time. But I do need help at the moment, that much I know. Culturally there’s so much credibility attached to the medical establishment, that even though I don’t particularly know if I want to talk to a GP, my trauma almost doesn’t exist if I don’t knock on that door first.
Urgent legal action is necessary due to ongoing medical evidence. Recent evidence received by a survivor of post-sepsis shock highlights serious concerns. It discloses that her long-standing 'mystery' medical issues align with documented adverse effects found in respected psychiatric journals. A review of her past medical records from Ontario, Canada, during the period of 2004-2012 reveals a pattern of over-prescription and lack of appropriate symptomatology. As a result, she now faces chronic disability and is entitled to seek compensation for the unnecessary medications she was overly prescribed without informed consent. Or apology for the decade that she survived severely compromised cognitive impairment.
These 23 years of medical files document trauma and torture that violated every human right under the Canadian Public Health Safety Guidelines.
Beyond that her most instinctive and sensitive him an rights through non compliant medical manupation. Resulting in stigmatized family, spiritual, and social alienation.
Now defying her odds of surviving another medically mishandled nightmare of post-recovery, from non informed post sepsis shock ICU. She was placed on a covid -19 lockdown wing of an unfamiliar and very large psychiatric floor until she could walk on her untreated flesh wounds that developed while recovering. She required a year and a half of out patient wound care every other day. With no supports she endured ongoing symptoms of PTSD upon bring discharged in a taxi without any shoes or explanation of any medical causes. Other than bring told that she tested positive for the Covid -19 Virus on the day of her discharge. She was given instructions to treat her covid - 19 protocol and public safety measures. A prescribed protocol that she refused.
It was her own resolve and insight and administration skills that acquired the 800 page file that not only unpacked her Sudden onset Sepsis attatck and evacuation from her trashed apartment that all 3 department of Emergency Responders added to the narrative of ‘another suicide attempt’ that rose from the ashes of her life that resurrected beyond the lies she had worked so hard to simply appreciate being alive! Counselling others online while nurturing her Spirit that the dopamine receptor blockers, SSRI’s and all the laters FDA economic magic formula’s that completely repress spiritual intuition as well as its inherent necessity to discern, critique and willingly decide on all the important matters that women face most critically during their 30’s that she believed were wasted and erased.
The 800 pages that she had researched and validated through her online professional resources and communities. Revealed the extent of the supernatural and very scientific Creator’s restorative nature of justice and love. All of the documented medical negligence and non compliance of that prescribing psychiatrist are available for the governing bodies to do their job now.
Please, she is an ODSP recipient with all the movement disorders and metabolic abnormalities that the data was correct in predicting.
We are asking for all reputable and respected legal representatives that want this opportunity to do something good for Ontario Canada’s Health Care Crisis amidst the others.
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I can agree with you Dr.Taylor,but what can you do if you don't represent an entirety of truth,I don't know how things are globally,but the conditions that women are found in after these types of event would typically lead from police to Psychiatrist to medication in Britain,they consider this to be the correct route and the most humane,sensitive one in the face of emergency;I know that this action means that you are placed on medication which removes your capacity to tell the whole truth,they can believe they are stopping someone from committing suicide which can be their response to criticism of people involved in their profession.If you have these experiences it feels like you are removed from a life that you think you understand into an experience that leads you to believe that you no longer know what's going on,which is perceived by others as a removal from reality by people who don't understand that they would behave like this or become involved in this type of description,they can even believe that this is the best and most realistic position to understand these matters from,which is absolutely ridiculous,you can tell that by what they do with people,if you become sectioned they lock you up in hospital and tell you that is because they wish to keep you safe from what people outside may do to you,when you break free and understand enough about human psychology you realise that they are looking after number one as they do have erratic people who can be considered as dangerous because they do things like pour scalding water on each other,but they don't seem to come into contact with those people apart from on their ward round where they can ascertain their personal safety and only occasionally find themself caught out in the open,I had that,I'm not violent,the Dr. turned to glare threateningly in my direction.I haven't read you using the sort of language I feel like using,maybe you still do on LinkedIn,I'm not on that anymore;this can probably read as aggressive and bi-polar depending on who you are and how you interpret individual experience.
Definitely my experience as an incest survivor. And I also hate that I have to "adopt" the medical model and the label at work/with HR to get my employer to accept my absences from work as valid. At my workplace the only valid reasons for absences are childcare, carer's leave or a medical issue with a medical certificate.
I don’t even know where to begin with how much this resonates- for all the ugly & sad reasons. Thank you for articulating this so well.
How can a woman diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder have the diagnosis changed particularly when they had been subjected to domestic violence when diagnosed?
It's very difficult,I found that out when I tried to have a misdiagnosis removed,in psychiatry in Britain they change descriptions because they don't really have that much idea of what an entire description of truth means,in Psychotherapy you are treated as having a history which culminates generally with a significant event that results with you consulting them,this can help give a person an entire description of truth,it makes it difficult if you can't do that,I'm waiting for a specific court action,but the problem is that if people deal with incomplete descriptions the experts as they like to believe themselves to be can keep adding to a description if they know that someone else can't produce one.The "Specialist" Psychiatrist told me that their version of a description of truth dealt with partial descriptions and not the entire description I believed in,you can also come across a knowledge of tactics if you complain or show them to be wrong,I said I understood things about equality that they didn't,she said she had her opinion and that I had mine and that we can both understand that,this puts a block in your thought processes because you have to agree when you have said you understand equality,so you leave and the only thing you can do is to plan or follow up with another appointment.