@Appleblossom wrote:
yep reKatterl. I keep trying to feed myself hopeful narratives that are actually realistic, and not PR that doesn’t address the issues around carceral psychiatry and chemical restraint.
I'll be honest, @Appleblossom , I've been following the inquiry into last year's Bondi Junction incident pretty closely, and I can really see the government and the media buttoning down the whole thing to the very simple & neat explanation of 'an inept psychiatrist who unwisely took a schizophrenic off his meds.'
There's a hunger admits the government and general public for a quick and easy way to fix all the people who don't fit in. And this story is playing right into the hands of the people who want to believe that meds solve everything, and that problems only arise when the meds aren't being taken.
Nothing seems to be prompting these investigators to look any deeper into what was happening with this man. They have the perfect answer laid out right in front of them on a silver platter.
I think it'll probably take the patient community at least a decade to recover from this. It's just too convienient to see this as a vindication of the idea that "meds prevent tragedies", and because this is such a high-profile incident, it'll be right through the media as a leading headline, and therefore it'll become deeply settled in the minds of the general public.
