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Glenn Newman's avatar

Wow, Julia thankyou for sharing this personal and powerful narrative of your experience of psychiatric 'mental health' colonization. How natural human acts of resistance to subjective and violent acts of oppression were constructed as further patterns of mental illness, whilst assimilation was considered steps towards mental health. If only these perspectives were available to humans training to act in a psychiatric context. Respect and thanks to your courage and writing. Glenn in West Wales.

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Lesley Maclean's avatar

That's amazing Julia. I love that you have this opportunity to revisit your records as a fiction (of course it is). I imagine this would be a great, though also painful, practice for so many people. I can see books written in this way, rewriting and filling out these stories that have been written on our behalf.

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Sara Arenson's avatar

I hate to think what my records would say. If there are even still records all the way back.

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Julia Macintosh's avatar

Yes. It’s quite sobering. xxx

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Julia Macintosh's avatar

Thank you Glenn xxx

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