When I was a kid I watched The Snake Pit, featuring Olivia de Havilland as a raving loony who gets locked in a padded cell during the 1920s.
We've come such a long way since then.
A case has come to light of an autistic man who has not been convicted of crimes, but who has been held in a small cell in solitary confinement for 5 years because psychiatric medicine can't calm the bloke down enough to handle.
This is rightly causing national outrage, especially since an unknown number of other people are held in similar circumstances, and that over 7000 people were held in solitary confinement due to mental illness in NZ last year.
To me, this is an indictment on an industry that has failed to make progress in the past century. They're still using ECT, they're still locking people up in solitary whose only crime is to be sick, and they're still prescribing drugs that are worse than the "cure".
Physician, heal thyself!
We've come such a long way since then.
A case has come to light of an autistic man who has not been convicted of crimes, but who has been held in a small cell in solitary confinement for 5 years because psychiatric medicine can't calm the bloke down enough to handle.
This is rightly causing national outrage, especially since an unknown number of other people are held in similar circumstances, and that over 7000 people were held in solitary confinement due to mental illness in NZ last year.
To me, this is an indictment on an industry that has failed to make progress in the past century. They're still using ECT, they're still locking people up in solitary whose only crime is to be sick, and they're still prescribing drugs that are worse than the "cure".
Physician, heal thyself!
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