I just want to say the work you’re doing is really important and I hope every person in your life tells you that every day. I hope you hear it from your parents and your spouse and your bosses and coworkers and from strangers on the street.
Even “well run” involuntary commitment hospitals tend to lead to more suicides and worse health outcomes and are for most “patients” (really inmates) a form of torture, which is why involuntary commitment for all but the absolute most extreme cases is discouraged in more progressive parts of the western world.
It is terrifying to imagine what an intentionally manipulative and badly run place would be like.
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As for a question:
in your reporting have you done much historical reading going back to draw parallels to 50, 100, and 200 years ago (etc) when men would routinely have their wives and daughters locked away in sanatoriums?
A lot of those sanitariums were also privately run and quite profitable.
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I just want to say the work you’re doing is really important and I hope every person in your life tells you that every day. I hope you hear it from your parents and your spouse and your bosses and coworkers and from strangers on the street.
Even “well run” involuntary commitment hospitals tend to lead to more suicides and worse health outcomes and are for most “patients” (really inmates) a form of torture, which is why involuntary commitment for all but the absolute most extreme cases is discouraged in more progressive parts of the western world.
It is terrifying to imagine what an intentionally manipulative and badly run place would be like.
—
As for a question:
in your reporting have you done much historical reading going back to draw parallels to 50, 100, and 200 years ago (etc) when men would routinely have their wives and daughters locked away in sanatoriums?
A lot of those sanitariums were also privately run and quite profitable.
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