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"What, no special toilets for us?
I once contacted NAMI, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, about getting some legal help. The local chapter, I think. No, they didn’t do that. Instead, they advocate for the families of those with mental illness to get treatment for them, like involuntary commitment. So does a place on the web called mentalillnesspolicy.org.
These organizations emphasize the damage that a minority of people with mental illness do to themselves and others in order to motivate and create public policy for so-called “progressive” involuntary treatment. They show no awareness of or concern for what license it gives governments and institutions to threaten, abuse and damage anyone they deem in need of their care, regardless of any evidence to the contrary.
So it doesn’t matter what we want or need; they don’t need to ask us. They just want to do what they think is good for us, voluntary or not. Kind of like that toilet law in the movie, The Help. Of course, those white Southern women didn’t lock their help in their special toilets for weeks or months on end. They needed their help for dirty work.
Imagine if Oklahoma legislators thought they could catch mental illness from a toilet seat. Based on what we’ve seen the last few years, it’s not inconceivable, them thinking that. Then I bet we’d get special toilets, too.
It saves all that trouble of asking those with mental illness what we need and what works best for us. Of considering how to approach us without threats, and get us voluntarily involved with counseling, medication and meaningful, productive employment.
Don’t we all see it every day? When it comes to raising money for a cause, fear and loathing sells better. "
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