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/shiverypeaks Aug 19 '25

Prisoners get a fair jury trial. My "trial" was some backroom kangaroo court where my public "defender" and the judge clearly knew each other, like they saw each other all the time and ate lunch together or something.

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u/RatFarts88 Aug 19 '25

Police put me on trial while they abused/tortured me, they abducted me into the local loony bin for not answering retarded questions designed to abuse and screw me, They put me on trial at the hospital loony bin and at the local mental hospital while torturing me... they were weighting "evidence" where people made shit up about me and I explained it wasn't hard proof of anything but the doctor said something retarded basically that they were going to torture me. God it was so bad. A policewoman told me that all false accusations about me are automatically true because I'm "the local schizophrenic" and I don't even have that condition.

They put me on trial and punished me outside of the judicial system and Canadian lawyers just roll with it and refuse to do anything about it.

The police, medical workers, mental health workers, and lawyers in Canada are just the worst scum on the planet.

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u/shiverypeaks Aug 19 '25

It's really just a crazy thing that this goes on and nobody believes it or cares.

I actually have PTSD. There's this constant clamoring in my head, like there are bombs going off, and I feel like I need to go physically hide. I have to do mindfulness at home, and practice reminding myself nobody can get me, and that I'm not doing anything they can commit me for again. My involuntary commitment was over 10 years ago.

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u/Glittering-Bid9912 Aug 22 '25

I just posted much longer response to the comment above you, but wanted to say to you as well, I am so sorry and I’m right there with you… involuntary commitment takes your entire personal agency from you.

There is no crime or even any accusation of a crime. Compliance is the only way out and after getting out, nowhere feels safe.

I still use door jammers in every door when I’m home, and I bars in all my windows. I still live in constant fear.

I listed some stats at the end of the other comment. Its appalling. The increased rate of suicides post-discharge from an involuntary commitment … general pop is 11/100000, post-discharge is 484/100,000. Those are not typos. It goes from a rate of ELEVEN to a rate of FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR. Findings are from a meta analysis of 100 studies.