I would like to think that Helen Thomas is just speaking out to get public awareness and response because if she truly believes what she is saying she should live where I am staying at the moment.
I cannot go into too much detail even though I am not intending to go legal at this time but friends close to me have been abused under so-called state psychiatric care for other reasons.
Since informing them of my intent to convert officially from no recorded background (never been baptised or confirmed in any other religion) to Orthodox Judaism, I have been exposed to all sorts of nonsense. My latest 'fun' was to be given a big bacon roll and then at some point sedated, during which time (when for all I know I was drooling on the floor as a side effect) they made their latest reports and I suffered 48 hours of missing time.
My file is no doubt even thicker with reports of 'illness' as are others, who at best are being used to maintain funding for their facilities or at worst are storehouses for processing for want of another word.
They have removed their multi-faith room, they lose so-called (in house with no stamps) kosher meals...
Their 'successful' discharged patients include people hobbling down the street with spittle coming out of their mouths, permanent tardive dyskenesia from overdoses of psychiatric medication and people have even committed suicide after coming into contact with these guys.
They may not carry so many guns these days but people are still targetting those who are 'different' or 'defective' and the world moves faster too and there is less time to prepare when they finally come for everybody else.
I like to think I am overreacting but history rhymes and although faces change, ideologies remain :(