Mind @mind.org.uk · Mar 25 “Their voices unheard, this is never ok, Parliament please I beg you to show them the way.” At our exhibition in Parliament earlier this month, India reads her poem about being sectioned.
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’The 54,000 people behind the Mental Health Act’ was an exhibition we put on to show MPs the experiences of real people who’ve been sectioned under the Mental Health Act. India’s poem highlights how important it is to address racism in the use of the Mental Health Act.
I was misunderstood and sectioned by NHS staff who were too lazy to bother to get to know me. "I'll come and have a chat with you" one hospital doctor kept saying to me. But he never appeared, and we never did have the promised chat, in all the 28 days I was in his dreadful hospital. Liar.