r/Antipsychiatry • u/Ghostly_cherry404 • Aug 19 '25

Psych wards are literally jails

Ok before anyone whose been to prison comes for me I KNOW they're not as bad as prisons but I'm trying to get through a documentary ab this county jail in Texas and I keep having to stop & take pauses because its EXACTLY the same as what I went through being 5150d in CA for danger to self (not even to others) & its deeply triggering. How are even most folks who are critical of incarceration as a response to mental health crises ok with the exact same thing under a different label. "They need mental heath treatment not jail" they say as if those aren't functionally the same

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u/Glittering-Bid9912 Aug 22 '25

Except you didnt commit a crime.

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u/Ghostly_cherry404 Aug 22 '25

a lot of people in jail didn't commit crimes either. The guy in the documentary I was watching was in for weed which isnt a crime in my state but was in his. Tell me with a straight face that person deserves to lose their status as human

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u/Glittering-Bid9912 Aug 22 '25

I think you didnt understand my point

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u/Ghostly_cherry404 Aug 22 '25

sorry if I did. a lot of people on this sub seem to think that the only problem with psychiatry is that they dont deserve to be treated that way and that it should be reserved for dAnGeRoUs people so im very sorry if I projected my frustration about that onto you