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Trump’s Prescription for Poverty: Forced Psychiatry and the Criminalization of Homelessness

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Trump order pushes forcible hospitalization of homeless people

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New Research Shows Risks of Coercive Psychiatric Treatment

A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is raising difficult but necessary questions about a practice that affects hundreds of thousands of lives each year: involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.

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This equates to a 79% increase in risk of being charged with a violent crime, and almost a doubled risk of dying by suicide or overdose, in the three months following evaluation for hospitalization.

The researchers also found hospitalization often caused destabilization. It led to declines in employment and earnings, and increased use of homeless shelters. It did not lead to better outpatient care or more consistent medication use.

Through the Doorway: Remembering A Father’s Battle Amid Potential Conflict

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I read an article today about a woman reflecting on her father’s PTSD. Her family had the same rule as mine—if you needed to wake Dad, you did so from the doorway to prevent the risk of an accidental reaction triggered by a flashback. I wonder how many children of military veterans have lived with this unspoken understanding, shaped by their parents’ trauma.

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June 7 is Muammar Gaddafi’s birthday.

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From the book by M. Gaddafi “Village, village. Land, land. The suicide of an astronaut and other stories” (Tripoli, 1993, pp. 65-79): “Throughout your entire life, you must resist Death… Death is a man who attacks and never goes on the defensive, even if he is defeated. He is spiteful, sometimes brave, sometimes cowardly. Sometimes, death is defeated and is forced to retreat. It does not win as a result of every attack, as is commonly believed. In how many face-to-face fights has Death become exhausted and, exhausted, retreated! Despite the wounds received in the fight against death, the stubborn opponent never gives in. And this is the superiority of life over death… The correct position is resistance, and running away from Death even abroad will not save you… However, if it has reincarnated as a woman… and we feel it with every cell of our body… then resisting it is unworthy of a man, and one should give in to it at the last moment…».

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