This Isn’t Care. And We Still Remember

They called it care.

We were told to be grateful.

But our bodies remember something else.

We remember being watched.

We remember being labelled for asking questions.

We remember being subdued, not supported.

What passes for mental health care is often containment with a therapeutic accent — calm voices, locked doors, and a thousand micro-erasures of dignity.

Article 3 of the Human Rights Act protects against inhuman and degrading treatment.

But in many services, the degradation is subtle, systematic, and deniable.

• Insight becomes “risk.”

• Resistance becomes “non-compliance.”

• Emotion becomes “instability.”

• And survivor truth is recoded as symptom.

This isn’t care.

This is management of the inconvenient.

But we remember.

Not as victims — as witnesses.

Not with bitterness — with clarity.

And we’re not going anywhere.

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