http://www.ncd.gov/publications/privileges.html
>From Privileges to Rights:
People Labeled with Psychiatric Disabilities Speak for Themselves
National [US] Council on Disability
January 20, 2000
>From the Executive Summary:
"[.] People with psychiatric disabilities are routinely deprived of their
rights in a way no other disability group has been. In order to learn more
about the problems of psychiatric disability, NCD conducted a hearing
specifically on this topic. At the hearing, held in Albany, New York, in
November 1998, NCD heard testimony from mental health professionals,
lawyers, advocates, and relatives of people with psychiatric disabilities.
However, unlike most investigations on the topic of psychiatric disability,
the primary participants in this hearing were people with psychiatric
disabilities themselves, who testified passionately and eloquently both
about the mistreatment they had experienced or witnessed, and their
proposals for real and viable change. NCD heard testimony graphically
describing how people with psychiatric disabilities have been beaten,
shocked, isolated, incarcerated, restricted, raped, deprived of food and
bathroom privileges, and physically and psychologically abused in
institutions and in their communities. The testimony pointed to the
inescapable fact that people with psychiatric disabilities are
systematically and routinely deprived of their rights, and treated as less
than full citizens or full human beings.[.]"
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