Does involuntary care work? Three B.C. residents share their personal stories
B.C. opened 28 new involuntary care beds, but this treatment has existed for people under the Mental Health Act. Three first-person stores.
“I would choose fatally overdosing over ever having to be involuntarily detained and institutionalized again. That is something I will avoid at all costs.”
Meanwhile, AB+BC make room for thousands of forced institutionalizations per year. 💔
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The real reason we have a housing crisis. Not because of immigrants or international students…
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Somehow the algorithm has figured out I like mushrooms. So now I get loads of mushroom pics on my feed and I’m okay with that 😍
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Lord of the Rings: Two Towers. So it’s going to be a winning year? 😌
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