I’ve been trying to post about this for a long time, but haven’t had the opportunity all day. Several people have alerted me about it, and I have no access to their emails. But the deal is this:
Associated Press Report: Disabled Kids Abused in Serbia
Serbia says allegations of abuse at mental institutions part of ‘dark propaganda’
liz | 3:38 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
It is deplorable that some people are treated inhumanely, but that is sometimes a relative term. Hospital conditions in Serbia are very primitive – exacerbated by the boycott and demonizing attitude that the very article hopes to address. It is like saying the Serbs are hungry, here is a picture, – then criticizing them for being against eating. Absurd logic, isn’t it?
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