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“Inpatient treatment isn’t ableist” is a fucking wild take when every psych hospital I’ve been in has taken away my cane.
Pretty much all inpatient facilities take away your phone and cut off your contact with the outside world. That is an environment that fosters abuse. That is fundamentally ableist.
It’s not just that some medical rofessiobals are ableist. It’s the system.
There are medical professionals in inpatient facilities who genuinely want to help, but they’re hindered by the abusive system.
If you haven’t actually experienced abuse in inpatient psychiatric facilities, you aren’t qualified to tell people that it’s just a few ableist doctors.
I’m not saying inpatient care shouldn’t be available, I’m saying that the current system needs to be replaced.
Let’s go over this though. First of all, it’s NOT uncommon for people to be institutionalised involuntarily. There’s very little available data, but when it happened to me, close to half the other patients were also there involuntarily. https://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/1279118441534722048?s=21 https://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/1279118441534722048
Calling people who criticise ableism in inpatient psychiatric care “sheltered” and assuming we don’t know that some people need care they can’t get from their communities is misguided at best. Many of us have been in inpatient care.
This is a straw man. The people I’ve seen calling for the abolition of inpatient facilities are people with mental illness who have been abused. https://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/1279120369970851840?s=21 https://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/1279120369970851840
The problem isn’t a few ableist doctors or nurses. The problem is that the actual system we currently have for inpatient psychiatric care prevents good doctors from helping, because they have to follow ableist rules. https://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/1279129133692248064?s=21 https://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/1279129133692248064
(TE: SA)
I was repeatedly raped when I was inpatient, but sure, tell me more about how “this isn’t Victorian London”. https://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/1279129656508084224?s=21 https://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/1279129656508084224
I was repeatedly raped when I was inpatient, but sure, tell me more about how “this isn’t Victorian London”. https://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/1279129656508084224?s=21 https://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/1279129656508084224
I’m not saying it was the same as prison, because it definitely wasn’t. But maybe don’t police how abuse victims talk about their abuse.
It was directed at people who are criticising the inpatient system, many of whom have been through comparable abuse. You don’t get to make general statements like that and then say “well it wasn’t about you” to people’s lived experience. https://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/1279130996026142720?s=21 https://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/1279130996026142720
Ok, now she’s yelling at me for *checks notes* bringing up my loved experiences that don’t fit her narrative, I guess? https://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/1279131181166891008?s=21 https://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/1279131181166891008
Am I just supposed to ignore what I went through in that system because she wasn’t talking specifically about me? Even though it was about the system that abused me?
I wasn’t even saying the system should be totally abolished, although abolition may be needed non the short term so we can build something better. I was saying that she’s being really unfair to people who are talking about abolition.
Expecting people who have been abused at inpatient facilities not to talk about that abuse when abolition comes up just seems really shitty and unreasonable to me.
And lashing out at somebody for talking about their experiences with abuse is just fucking cruel.
I’m honestly really upset and shaken. I followed and respected her for a long time, and I made myself vulnerable to try to give her input on this.
I feel sick.
I just don't get what I did wrong?
I wasn’t prepared for her to throw my trauma in my face like that.
