Relatives of “Mental Health”
System Survivors
Our second Relatives of “Mental Health” System Survivors Workshop was held in April 2018. Many participants had never been to a “mental health” liberation workshop before, I assume because they had felt that “mental health” liberation was about their relative, not about them. We focused on how they had been affected by what happened to their relative.
Watching a relative get stuck in the “mental health” system and have a harder and harder time is part of “mental health” oppression. Children can be put in the position of taking care of their parent. Having a relative on psychiatric drugs can put people in the oppressor role when they are responsible for making their relative take the drugs.
New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA
(Janet died on July 24, 2019)
Reprinted from the RC e-mail discussion
list for leaders of “mental health” liberation