We are human beings. Stigma and abuse, played out by those in power, gave me no credibility when trying to report abuses. Think of yourself in such a situation. Ask yourself how you might feel if you came home from being beaten on a psyche ward, broken physically and mentally, still hoping beyond hope that someone will believe you and those who beat you will face justice. What a joke.
Empowerment is useful treatment.
Disempowerment and oppression are not. This archaic mental health system must change. So, perhaps, must society. The surgeon general claims a large percentage of Americans are mentally ill. Jody Harmon is a Corvallis resident.