New York City’s plan to expand involuntary hospitalization is the opposite of ‘compassionate care’
a dramatic expansion of New York City’s involuntary hospitalization policy, I listened in disbelief as he promised to provide the city’s most vulnerable with “compassion and care”. I found myself overcome with both rage and grief, reliving, as I often do, a warm spring day eight years ago.they
My inner monologue formed a loop in my head: don’t show too much emotion, or the nurses will assume you’re unstable. Don’t show too little emotion either, or the drugs must be too strong, they will have to readjust them. Smile, be polite, but not withdrawn. Hold out your arm when it’s time for the daily blood draw, even if you’re terrified of needles. Eat food that’s bland even by Massachusetts standards, and be grateful if there’s a fruit cup with dinner.
Unless you have experienced it, I don’t think you can fully comprehend what it means to lose autonomy over your own body, or to have to “earn the privilege” of 30 minutes of fresh air and sunshine.ll of this occurred under better-than-average circumstances. For one, I am a young, white, cisgender woman. I was not homeless – at the time, I was a student at a liberal arts college. I had private health insurance, which meant I could afford to be held at a private facility.
These were the “best of circumstances” – and yet it remains one of the most traumatic events of my life.
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