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Comment by kranke155 | Hacker News Reader

Huh?

They're detailing how it's highly unpleasant, and in some ways arguably draconian, to be "sectioned", because (again, "in some ways") the individuals suffering it have less autonomy and receive more "punitive detention" style of treatment than actual criminal prisoners do.

Because, contrary to an idealistic public view that mental health is taken care of when discovered, the reality is that it's a system that has little recourse or solution other than to medicate into dullness, and if acting-out requires it, into virtual sedation and lockdown. With all personal rights and dignity gone by default.

Most people who went through it would come out traumatised if they weren't already to start with. It's not treatment the average person would give their dog.

Exactly, the hourly suicide watch, keeps you awake, makes you sleep deprived, creating a situation where you are going to descend into hell, get even more cranky, get drugged even more, throwing up because the drugs make you do this, and the military can slip actors into the mental health ward to further complete their psychological torture, and thats very important because most people dont realise how the military can do things like this. The public buy the lies because there is no transparency of their methods, even GDPR documents are fabricated in some cases, which gives more credibility to people like Virginia Giuffre!

Ironically what Sarah Connor goes through in Terminator 2, isnt that far from the truth, plus we shouldnt forget Religion is a legal form of insanity!

Where there is secrecy, state criminality can exist.

You'd be surprised what goes on, but then most people still believe in religion which is a legal form of insanity.

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