Something that resonates with me

[Teddy bear]

Impressed by this semi-poetry.

Hope it's okay to repost here. Found it on Facebook, written by someone named Eva Lilli.

// Trigger Warning: descriptions of psychiatric institutionalisation and medical trauma.

"May one write one's own journal?

There they sit in rows
Big bodies, heads down

The chairs can be stacked
And the floor is covered with linoleum

Some are drooling
Most faces paralyzed
They are so obese they can barely get up

The doctor says, "they are ill"
Because he needs research material—and data

That kind comes easily in his position
Scientific lies
And modern slavery

My friend was saved by chance
Tapered off after thirty years of industrial medical abuse

Saved right before the eternal abyss

No compensation in sight
Of course the system protects itself
Abuses the most vulnerable among us

Now she cannot manage on her own
Has lost too much time

She has a service dog—her lifeline and friend

People rush past her
Society has become a fatalistic glitter show
Too much for her vulnerable nervous system

She has suffered a brain injury
From years of vicious chemical experiments

But most days she's happy
Happy she got out...

Was she ever ill, though?
Absolutely not!
She was unlucky to have a frail father
And a violent mother

Such children are for sale
And as adults they are often abandoned without human rights

Many become a stack of meaningless papers
In a forgotten archive

Rest in peace to all our lost friends
And congratulations to the few who got out

Often, life is a matter of coincidences

Live it. 🌱"