Feminists

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But too many of them take the attitude "Oh well, this patient is crazy, so nothing she says can be trusted". The most nightmarish night of my life was the one I voluntarily checked into a mental hospital suffering from a near-suicidal depression because I'd just lost my job and was in danger of losing everything else because of a false-positive drug test. I actually had two doctors come straight out and say "Well you must have done something wrong, or they wouldn't have fired you". Not that the lab was using an unreliable test (which they were), or that some technician had mixed up the samples.

The next morning I pretended that everything was just yippy-skippy and I was fine now, and checked myself out again, thinking "I may be a little nuts, but those people are batshit!"* If I'd had to stay there any longer, I really would have been certifiable.

Really, the only thing I could compare it to was being in some red Chinese re-education camp, or locked up in a Soviet era psych hospital, where you start to question your own grip on reality. I can totally understand why some people wind up confessing to crimes they haven't committed, when everyone around them insists that they have.

Edited to add: when I said batshit, I was referring to some of the staff, not the patients. They were just screwed up people who needed help, and too many of them weren't getting it.