‘I had no voice’: black mental health patients on surviving a care system they say is racialised
As a report into mental health care in England finds a sharp increase in people sent for urgent care, two people tell their traumatic stories of being hospitalised
It has been more than four decades since Devon Marston, a 66-year-old community organiser and musician, was taken to a psychiatric hospital where he was restrained, injected and forced to take medication. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
“Everything was said around me and about me, but no one asked me how I was doing,” he said. “I had no voice, and there was no one to say: ‘Don’t do that to him,’ or: ‘Listen to him, hear what he has to say.’”
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By Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent
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As a report into mental health care in England finds a sharp increase in people sent for urgent care, two people tell their traumatic stories of being hospitalised
It has been more than four decades since Devon Marston, a 66-year-old community organiser and musician, was taken to a psychiatric hospital where he was restrained, injected and forced to take medication. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
“Everything was said around me and about me, but no one asked me how I was doing,” he said. “I had no voice, and there was no one to say: ‘Don’t do that to him,’ or: ‘Listen to him, hear what he has to say.’”
Continue reading...
By Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent
‘I had no voice’: black mental health patients on surviving a care system they say is racialised to Continue reading...
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