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I can't believe I've never been in a psych ward
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@khan
I once tried to go..but then they were like "Psych! We don't actually exist!"
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@com0ddity lmao
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@khan this the post
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@kala_ adding it to my bucket list
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@khan guy like me been trying to check that off, unfortunately I’m white
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@khan
I actually was once.
Someone called the police as I was half-heartedly trying to anhero and they forced me to come with them to the station.
They kept gaslighting me into staying in more and more confined spaces (don't be worried we will only hear you out and you can go home. Don't be worried our Doctor has to look at you, you won't be institutionalized. Don't be worried you won't have to stay in the hospital. Don't be worried you will be treated in an ambulant manner. Don't be worried it's gonna be the open psych ward. Don't be worried we just need to keep you in the closed psych ward for a month..two tops) and when I acted confused about how it all went down they decided I was schizo.
Luckily their stupid questions where pretty darn transparent...like "Do you believe in Aliens?"-Tier transparent.
I got out after just a few weeks of masking and found out that my right to drive has been revoked.
(Had to pay a fuckton to get it back)
But now I can use the word "Kafkaesque" to describe things that actually have happened to me so I'm clearly the actual winner.
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@com0ddity that's so fucked up
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@khan
It was quite some time ago...And now I'm actually crazy lucky...Just gotta get used to it.
Also I still think that it's good that institutions exist, but we should never forget what they can turn into.
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@com0ddity I was worried I would be put in one earlier this year
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@com0ddity why would you want to obsolete the family
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@khan
And our goal should be to democratize so much that we make institutions and the family obsolete...not go away, but obsolete
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@khan
Because the expectation that family may care about vulnerable people is a product of societies and economies unable to establish actual nets of solidarity.
When a family cares it's good...But if we have gotten used to no-one caring that we delegate it to the family, that's bad.
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@khan
*so used to no one caring, is what I meant to write