What they don’t tell you about inpatient psych treatment is everything, in short. To take the long route of things they do not mention would mean devoting an entire book series to the scandal of treatment--a story in and of itself. What they will tell you is that a 201 commitment may be voluntary, but they avoid mentioning you have to sign, or else you will be put on a 302--in other words, involuntarily committed. No one will mention that therapists are mandated reporters, or that children will have their fragile and chaotic worlds completely obliterated if they open their mouths; no one dare utter the truth about some of the caseworkers. No one mentions that many children in the hospital get taken from their families, or that their loved ones will abandon them, determining these children are too fucked up to fix. They forget to mention how an alarming number of adolescents get dump...
I started this blog in late 2015 when I began eating disorder treatment. What started as a personal project, grew into a page for updating family and friends, and now thousands read these posts from all corners of the world. This blows my mind. Today, I consider myself recovered, but my work as an activist is just beginning. For additional inquiries, please feel free to email me.