01/07/2018
Two So Cal Against Forced Treatment members, Missy and Skylar Emery Freels, share their experiences with some of the more subtly coercive aspects of psychiatry.
"We’re not dysfunctional or bad just because there are two of us in here. What’s more important than being a socially acceptable single person is that we know how to get along and manage our trauma and our life together. Knowing this, we now strive to advocate for other systems and reach out to those that may not understand systems, to show that existing as we do is okay and that we can learn to navigate the world by cooperating. We don’t need the psychiatric system or its labels to allow us to exist, or to try to fix us. We just need to be accepted as we are."
We don’t have to fit any psychiatric paradigm or be acceptably “normal” in order to be happy. All we need is understanding.
