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I’m writing this chapter from personal experience. I lost my twenties to psychiatry. I first went into a mental hospital when I was 19. I spent my thirtieth birthday in my last mental hospital so far. It took me those 11 years of going in and out of big bins and psychiatric units in general hospitals to realize that psychiatry had nothing to offer me. The system did me more harm than good.
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Lindow, V. (1995). Power and rights: the psychiatric system survivor movement. In: Jack, R. (eds) Empowerment in Community Care. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4507-5_13
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