No thanks for your neoliberal repressive policies.

A psychiatric survivor of insulin shock treatment, Don Weitz offers a snapshot of homelessness and psychiatric mistreatment in Canada.

The myths and stereotypes surrounding mental illness and the violent mental patient are unfortunately alive and well.

Today, it’s widely acknowledged that the “deinstitutionalization” of psychiatric survivors has been a total failure and fraud; it was from the very start. Why? Because of government incompetence and negligence, poor urban planning, and public indifference to “discharged” psychiatric survivors and other poor, marginalized and stigmatized people in our communities.