and i don't necessarily believe any of this i'm just saying words recreationally
the last sentence of my thesis
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… this is from 1993, when the idea of this last bit happening was genuinely conspiracy theory-level paranoia. now… well.
Or it’s from 1993, the year after a landmark lawsuit against American Express – for tracking the buying habits of its customers in order to sell their information to other companies – ended with new legislation to make it illegal to do that without disclosing it first
FACT:
Usage of the word “The” has begun to decline. This is because as more and more people become educated, usage of the word “Thoum’st” has become more common.
quick question what happened 2009
That’s when we were all using “teh”
got curious and “teh” has an almost identical dip at exactly the same point in time. what the hell happened in 2009
We all just shut up in 2009.
"if this doesn't work out ill just kill myself" has gotten me through all of lifes trials
and here is the thing. all psych wards are bad. every single one. I don’t think there is such a thing as a good psych ward—I’m willing to believe that there are some good people who work in psych wards, who have good intentions, and who might end up helping some people. but the psych ward as a whole? There are no good psych wards. The structure of a psych ward inherently prevents it from being good. Even if you personally think you had a good experience in a psych ward, most likely what that means is that the abusive practices weren’t used on you. But those things are still there. even if you weren’t put into solitary confinement, it is extremely likely that your psych ward still had a room for that. even if you weren’t drugged without your consent, it is very likely other people were being drugged without consent!! even if you weren’t strip searched, or tied to your bed, or starved…it is VERY likely that your psych ward has protocols for all these things and regularly does them to many people who come through the ward! And it is vital to think about how your race, class, and other identities affected your experience before making broad claims about things “never happening” in psych wards.
Psych wards are inherently violent, oppressive, and unethical based solely on the fact that they are a form of incarceration, but even beyond that? If a psych ward is committed to enforcing compliance and incarceration, it is going to have some of those abusive measures that I listed above, and that is going to be standard protocol. Even if there are good people working in a psych ward, their reach is going to be limited—the power of the institution means that they constantly have to weigh the decision to break the rules and help someone, or to follow violent protocols. Most clinicians and staff will choose not to lose their job and even if they find it personally distasteful, will still choose to enable these types of violence. Good people on the inside are not able to fundamentally change the reality of what psych wards are and what they can do.
I strongly believe that people who say they have good experiences are the outlier and also are likely to be white and rich. Even if people don’t think that their experience was abusive, a lot of people generally find it boring, unhelpful, and mediocre. And so, so many people are experiencing abuse in a daily fucking basis in these places. Even if there are individuals who manage to escape the worst of a psych ward, the fact that the psych ward has the power, structure, and protocol to do these things to anyone is a problem.
And adding on: if you’re a good person in this job you’re going to quit. otherwise you’re someone who at a certain point has decided that perpetrating this type of violence is an acceptable tradeoff for the help that you manage to do, and every good person that I’ve known who’s worked in psych wards has gotten horribly burnt out because the mental cost of constantly making those justifications is not sustainable. I’m in a whole discord server full of abolitionist therapists and social workers who left the job and are working to undo harms they’ve caused and work towards alternative methods of care, which is how I know that there are some good people who originally end up in these places. But good clinicians don’t stay.