I've had plenty of power-games played on me by people in the "helping" professions (the "semantics" accusation is all too familiar), but I've never been held captive. I think about the only thing one can do to avoid that is to never say or do anything that would give those people an excuse to play the "danger to self or others" card. But even that can be difficult.
It's absolutely horrible what you were put through. I've seen enough, and been frightened enough to know how utterly inhumane those places are. No matter how polite and compliant I may try to be, there's something in my demeanor that makes those people obsessed with breaking my will and sabotaging identity. I honestly don't know that I would have survived.
I'm so terribly sorry that you were forced to endure that. It makes me angry, and very, very sad.
I think the bottom line with those people is that we're just not even human in their eyes.
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Date: 2004-08-25 09:26 am (UTC)From:I've had plenty of power-games played on me by people in the "helping" professions (the "semantics" accusation is all too familiar), but I've never been held captive. I think about the only thing one can do to avoid that is to never say or do anything that would give those people an excuse to play the "danger to self or others" card. But even that can be difficult.
It's absolutely horrible what you were put through. I've seen enough, and been frightened enough to know how utterly inhumane those places are. No matter how polite and compliant I may try to be, there's something in my demeanor that makes those people obsessed with breaking my will and sabotaging identity. I honestly don't know that I would have survived.
I'm so terribly sorry that you were forced to endure that. It makes me angry, and very, very sad.
I think the bottom line with those people is that we're just not even human in their eyes.
:-(