Urgent Appeal to Norway to discontinue forced treatment/hospitalization

Recovery, empowerment and experiential expertise. In this documentary (ex-)users and survivors of psychiatry speak about their lived experience from hospitalization to recovery. They discuss what is helpful and what is not helpful at all. Among the most brilliant phrases are: "Insanity is a perfectly...

The picture illustrating this post is not taken in a mental institution. It's from a TV show. A French popular and long-standing game show "Fort Boyard" broadcast in 30 countries has decided to organize a show based on isolation and contention in psychiatry. Candidates...

On February 26 the European Disability Forum, the European Network of (Ex)-Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, Mental Health Europe, the Brain Injured & Families European Confederation and the International Disability Alliance issued this public statement to express our profound concern regarding the recent closure...

In the summer of 2024, during the months of June and July, I was hospitalized twice at University Psychiatric Clinic Ljubljana, where obvious violations of patient and human rights occurred. I mainly want to describe my own experiences, although the medical staff treated other...

"On Thursday January 9th, I was transported by the Pardubice Region's Rapid Rescue Service after an examination at the Choceň clinic and on the recommendation of my general practicioner, first to Pardubice to the psychiatric department of the local hospital (supposedly for examination by...