Do Clients in AOT Programs Truly Feel “Satisfied” and “Empowered” by Being Forcibly Drugged? -- A Critical Analysis of a 2023 Treatment Advocacy Center Report.
Contrary to common claims, the numbers of people being detained in psychiatric hospitals in the US and Canada have been rising dramatically for decades.
Many callers who call 988 or other mental health help hotlines believe they're anonymous, but get subjected to call traces, unwanted interventions, and police coming to forcibly take them to psychiatric hospitals. The numbers are much higher than is ordinarily publicly admitted by the managers of 988 and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Do we really have a "shortage" of psychiatric hospital beds as is commonly claimed? Two internal US government studies, along with other data, show that the number of psychiatric beds is dramatically higher than is commonly recognized. So who's behind the disinformation campaign, and with what intention?
First in a series of short (3-4 minute) videos about some of the more startling, disturbing, and shocking things I learned while working on my book Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships. In this video, I describe cases of mass-scale fraudulent involuntary psychiatric commitments, and recount
