#sorry abt the essay in the tags. involuntary commitments are treated so terribly and it’s scary to see ppl advocating for it

[transfemsamwinchester]

saw a tiktok about a schizophrenic man committing a violent hate crime and a lot of the comments were fearmongering about schizophrenic people in general, not the specific situation. and it just got me thinking about how schizophrenia is treated in media and the news, how you only hear about schizophrenic people when they’ve committed a violent crime, how society says these people need to be locked up in mental institutions for their own good, and like. i feel like people don’t understand that bodily autonomy applies to everybody. yes, even truly awful people. and truly awful people who happen to be mentally ill are not awful because of their mental illness, the two are totally unrelated. obviously, someone who’s committing violent hate crimes should not be allowed to continue to do those crimes. but just because a person poses a threat, the way to neutralize that threat is not involuntary commitment. because when you start to shove the “bad” crazy people in mental institutions against their will, that opens the gates for all mentally ill people to be institutionalized.

#the word of chuck #ableism tw #like. as someone who has schizophrenic friends #and who might very well be schizophrenic themselves (i’ve definitely got something undiagnosed) #it’s scary to see how quickly people will jump on the involuntary commitment bandwagon #every single time i’ve been committed it’s been voluntary #bc i’ve known that if i didn’t go voluntarily they’d involuntarily commit me #and i know that when my chart says voluntary commitment i get treated more like a human being #tiktok is evil obviously but there’s this one user w bpd who talks abt her experiences with involuntary commitment #and the shit she says is absolutely bone chilling #like. involuntary commitment cases are treated as so inhuman. the commitment is the tip of the iceberg #when it comes to their bodily autonomy being violated #did you know that if you get admitted for a 72 hour stay weekend days don’t count towards those 72 hours? #so if your times up and you want to leave you can’t. bc the doctors have the weekend off #sorry abt the essay in the tags. involuntary commitments are treated so terribly and it’s scary to see ppl advocating for it #edit: the tiktok user who talks about his experiences in the psych ward is @yamumsatryeduns and uses he/they pronouns #or possibly they/he. they have it in a different order on his bio than they do at the top of his page