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Jul 10, 2012, 11:40 AM
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Member Since: Jun 2007
Location: Washington DC metro area
Posts: 15,865
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Originally Posted by AppinIsobel
Erin survived due to her involuntary treatment
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May be so, but her story is not an unmixed recommendation of such treatment:
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Although she has faith in the health-care system, she says she experienced discrimination and disrespect within it.
“I really want professionals to read my book, because I’ve come across a lot of nurses and a lot of psychiatrists who just don’t get it [paranoid schizophrenia] and who don’t really care that they don’t get it. They just have their agenda. They would read my diagnosis, then, without even looking at me, give me drugs.
“There’s definitely a lack of compassion,” she adds. “I remember this one time I was fighting off security guards who were tying me down in restraints, and the nurses were getting the needles ready when this med student came in and said, ‘Oh, boy, I’ve never seen one of these before. Can I watch?’ I just thought, ‘Are you kidding me?’ ”
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Now if thou would'st
When all have given him o'er
From death to life
Thou might'st him yet recover
-- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631
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