it is not lost on me that every single time I bring up this phenomenon (overprescription of antipsychotic medication to young children who have "inconvenient" psych disorders or "behavior issues" or who have been identified as "problems"; also to vulnerable patients in institutions and group home settings) I hear from at least one and sometimes dozens of people saying "whoa, that happened to me I didn't know it was part of a Thing they do on purpose, I thought that it was just sort of a random result of doctors randomly being sort of bad at their job in my particular case" so many of us are or were eligible to be a part of class action lawsuits we did not even know existed until after they were settled (mmmeeeeee! i absolutely could have sued psych professionals involved in my "care" so many times over by now lol) (just knowing that something that was done to you is an offense worthy of litigation is such an important thing to be aware of in terms of Understanding What Happened To You)
this is why it's so important for psychiatric survivors to talk to each other and to talk about our experiences. they don't want us to talk to each other they don't want us to see the patterns they don't want us to understand how the system works. like. this is why I talk about this stuff. people don't know they don't know things about the things that happened to them!!!!!! its OLD MAN EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE YET AGAIN
