Patients Over Power

‘They have been sidelined’ - historic trauma at Ireland's mental institutions thejournal.ie/investigates-s…

“We have always found ways to lock up mentally ill people": The disturbing history of Irish asylums thejournal.ie/history-of-psy…

Psychiatric patient spent 12 days in isolation without shower - Report finds patients at Portlaoise hospital held in isolation until they showed ‘remorse’ irishtimes.com/news/health/ps…

When it comes to any ambiguity in applying facts to legislation or how legislation is to be interpreted, a society governed by charter is supposed to error on side of protecting RIGHTS for the mentally ill. This is clear, right?

#EndCoercion #MentalHealthRights #MentalHealthBill2024 End the abuse now. Source: share.google/BMxiTq2I4M9hFh…

“I watched people spend days in isolation… I watched people being physically assaulted.” “I was refused access to a bathroom while sick and forced to sit in soiled clothes for hours.”

Look at these reviews of an Irish mental health hospital. This is what people are actually experiencing behind closed doors.

You can be sane and functional by any reasonable standards and still locked in a hospital for a year @MFA_China

No one is immune. #MentalHealthBill2024

That’s the part no one wants to admit.

No one is immune to psychiatric abuse. You just have to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.