Thread by @kyblueblood

I want to thank every single person who speaks out about psychiatric harm and the damage the drugs can do.
It's going to take all of us to change things but I can see it slowly happening now.
It's been unbelievable to watch.
#MentalHealthMatters
@madinamerica2
@kevinpmiller

https://twitter.com/kyblueblood/status/1624420195140861954

I owned it business when I became literally disabled by the psychiatric drugs.
The well meaning professionals told me I was mental ill.
My life as I knew it changed forever.
Devalued and poor I was treated like crap.

That's when I made the connection to how they had treated my disabled siblings in the past. They were devalued by society, not allowed to participate. They put them in institutions and restraints. Eventually killing them. Protected to death by the state.
#DisabledLivesMatter

This can happen to you

Or your family.

They can take your children over your disability.
They can destroy your life over a disability.

It's legal and written into our state legislation.
Restraints. Forced treatment, institutionalization,
removing your child due to disability and no reunification.
No right to a jury trial in those cases.
Yet no one cares, Until it happens to you.

#DisabledLivesMatter

Sub standard wages, some people with disabilities are making cents on the dollar, #bottomdollars working in sheltered workshops, like Goodwill using antiquated 14 (c) certificates from the 30s.
#DisabledLivesMatter

It has taken me over 20 years of investigating this subject matter to figure it out.
It's a complex system with little accountability from the state or transparency.

There are waiting list for waivers to keep people in the community and waiting lists for people to come back to their communities from institutions.
There were waiting lists to get into the institutions in the past.

We can do better.

#DisabledLivesMatter

Unroll please
@threadreaderapp

I forgot about the marriage penalty for people who receive disability income.