FTL.Wanderer
Enlightened
- May 31, 2018
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If you're rich or famous, these kinds of issues might make it out into the open. What about the poor and vulnerable who have no advocates but who're the forced recipients of "treatment"?
Excerpt:
Rebecca Lewis, a 27-year-old Ohioan, has had to confront the personal costs of involuntary hospitalization for three years — ever since she first became a psychiatric patient.
At 24, Lewis began experiencing auditory hallucinations of people calling her name, followed by delusional beliefs about mythological creatures. While these experiences felt very real to her, she nevertheless knew something was off.
Not knowing where to turn, Lewis called a crisis line; the person on the phone advised her to go to an evaluation center in Columbus. When she drove herself there, she found an ambulance waiting for her. "They told me to get into the ambulance," she says, "and they said it would be worse if I ran."
Excerpt:
Rebecca Lewis, a 27-year-old Ohioan, has had to confront the personal costs of involuntary hospitalization for three years — ever since she first became a psychiatric patient.
At 24, Lewis began experiencing auditory hallucinations of people calling her name, followed by delusional beliefs about mythological creatures. While these experiences felt very real to her, she nevertheless knew something was off.
Not knowing where to turn, Lewis called a crisis line; the person on the phone advised her to go to an evaluation center in Columbus. When she drove herself there, she found an ambulance waiting for her. "They told me to get into the ambulance," she says, "and they said it would be worse if I ran."
