Inpatient rights don’t seem to be on anyone’s radar. The only organization I know of is MindFreedom, which organizes letter writing and phone campaigns to try to protect people from forced medications and electric shock.
In the Southern US, it is One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. But I don’t hear about protests at hospitals and troubled teen facilities. I don’t hear about people pushing for things like a patient “bill of rights” in care. I don’t see a recognition of the ways that psychiatry is weaponized against harmless but “deviant” behavior.
Children in care especially seem to be utterly voiceless. A “troubled teen” is automatically assumed to be a liar, so any allegations of abuse can be (literally!) dumped in the paper shredder.
Not exactly a group, but you mentioned troubled teens camps
That place is worse than the one I went to as a kid, but I still feel so sick reading it. I have flashbacks to being told I would have to change.
I don’t understand why these places are allowed to exist.
Yeah. You weren’t given what you needed, from laziness, ineptitude or hubris. Not your fault. If you had a set of caregivers that didn’t give up you wouldn’t have went to that place. Places like that aren’t better because they are just a step above the effort the primary caregivers are providing. It’s allowed because of money, religion, and propaganda.
inpatient
In-patient? Or impatient?