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Originally Posted by Ididitmyway
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The place to start, the first step is for people to start going public with their stories under their real names. Until it happens, nothing will change. I know all the reasons why people are afraid to do that and I know that all those reasons are valid. So, I am not telling anyone to do that. All I am saying is that the reality is what it is, and the fact that people have valid reasons not to break their stories into public awareness doesn't change the reality that the public isn't going to care until it happens. No one cares about what Jane Doe says on some forum. No one would take notice. The public would start taking notice when real people with real names start writing their blogs, op-eds in local newspapers, make podcasts and youtube channels, talk about it on social media and so on. No other action will be successful until some degree of awareness emerges into the public consciousness.
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Real people have written books, years ago, and yet here we still are. I think it needs more than individuals, I think it needs an advocacy group of real people, willing and able to use their real names, which I understand not everybody can.
In my experience NAMI is clueless about this stuff. I've tried to talk to them -- they don't get it. Mad in America would be an ally, I think, but this isn't their main focus. I have communicated with them and if somebody wrote a good article, my sense is they would publish it. I just don't have a good sense of what would do any good. Need to describe the nature of therapy trauma, maybe? Then the lack of understanding and acceptance by the therapy community, hence the lack of any resources to help those of us traumatized by therapy.
Since there isn't an accepted definition of what therapy trauma is, maybe the idea could be conveyed by a set of stories?