I Survived Psychiatry

<p class=ql-align-justify>1.8 million people are directly concerned by psychiatry in France. 350000 are in hospital. For every 1000 inhabitants there is 1 forced hospitalization. Yet this system which generates social exclusion and stigmatization dominates. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Interned at the age of 16 Christelle Rosar has been hospitalized for twenty years. She was restrained injected with drugs and kept in a vegetative state. She has seen patients remain in hospital from adolescence to death and others gradually suffer the side effects of treatments. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Now liberated she recounts her struggle to regain her autonomy and her place in society denouncing the abuses and flaws of the particularly violent French psychiatric system.</p>