The DU Lounge

The treatment of people seeking help in this society includes cops who shoot first and ask questions later, strip searches, forced drugs, forced incarceration, fraud, and sexual abuse of teenagers.
No way.
I’ve seen a man teetering on a median of a busy intersection, looked at a family member in the car, and mutually agreed that he was better off taking his chances with traffic than taking chances by calling the police..
I’ve read articles about teen girls in Texas being given a cocktail of psychoactive drugs for a couple of years, intended to keep them passive and easily controlled, when there was really nothing wrong that required drugs at all. Routinely drugging immigrant children at Shiloh center outside of Houston. What in any of this inspires trust??

For-profit institutions want to keep people inside as long as possible.

Mental health apps are selling the data.

Teenagers aren’t “allowed to have a bad day”. More than 100,000 are being given two or more psychotropic drugs. Poor girl in this story was given 6, and felt like she was ‘crawling out of her skin’.