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Bullying Defined and Bullying in the Mental Health Systems | What's "Dark, Bewitching, Belittling and Scary?"
Bullying is a much-needed topic in schools, mental health systems, communities, workplaces, and even in living arrangements such as mental health housing. Bullying can be defined as seeking to harm or intimidate often perceived as vulnerable. What bullying looks like is dark and emotionally disturbing, involving bewitching, belittling, and even scary behaviors. Being bullied places individuals in an uncomfortable position, creating fear. Those who are bullied have a hard time reacting and standing their ground because they may fear endangering their status in areas like housing, school, and employment.
When adverse circumstances like bullying arise, many people have trouble coping, which can interfere with their daily lives and cloud their decisions, judgments, and feelings.
Bullying in America's mental health systems is particularly troubling to overcome and address due to the stigma of mental health patients being perceived as paranoid, psychotic, dangerous, indifferent, incompetent, or dark. Finding a solution to bullying, which is illegal under HIPAA laws, in hospitals and the behavioral health sector of mental health systems is challenging. These systems are governed by a network of systematic criminal behaviors that are difficult to adhere to because these healthcare sectors are interconnected with each other and with resources like nonprofits aimed at benefiting the welfare of diverse communities in populous counties. This includes families, undocumented immigrants, and people with chronic illnesses, who thrive in an environment where health and safety are prioritized over often marginalized members of psychiatric databases. History has shown that prolonged bullying often precedes a vulnerable party reacting in a vengeful manner. Those who are bullied may react with violence or fall into a deep state of depression, neglecting self-care and becoming increasingly isolated.
How Bullying in the Mental Health System bring havoc in the world- Why, how, when, and my lived experience?
1)Bullying in a mental health system of a diversity setting can be racial with no color line.
Diversity applies not only to those living a pure, godly life but also to those who have sinned or made mistakes in their environment. For example, indirect diversity could include someone living a passive life who unknowingly or knowingly gives birth to a child in an environment where having children is illegal, which is considered a sin. Direct diversity encompasses crimes, breastfeeding, viruses, character flaws, and informant behaviors.
In mental health systems, the division isn't based on ethnicity--whether one is Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, or other--but on personality traits and differences that lead to exclusion from both indirect and direct diverse populations. For instance, despite being in my late 30's, single, childless, financially unstable, and living a morally upright life, I still have personal flaws that affect me and possibly my support system. This exclusion from diversity categorizes me, and others like me, as white in perception, allowing all populations to treat me as less than equal. In mental health systems, diverse communities, and age and financial brackets, bullying is a common experience for me. I see it as a reflection of differences that provoke pessimism in others when I am present, and they often spread rumors and use indirect remarks against me, whether I'm there or not.
2)Bullying in a mental health system is often start by the staff that aide in their informants following their judgmental and provoking approaches to isolate you as a peer of their fellowship.
Mental health systems sit atop a systematic pyramid designed to organize and promote isolation from other sectors of elite status, whether inherited or stemming from past corrupt lifestyles prior to entering these systems. Despite the popular belief that mental health patients single out individuals, I perceive mental health systems as fostering exclusion rather than inclusion, isolating unique and different mentally ill patients from the broader population.
One-way mental health systems achieve this exclusion is by spreading rumors and creating diverse circumstances within group settings, where informants are rewarded for behaviors similar to those being bullied. Meanwhile, outsiders within mental health fellowships are scolded, belittled, and marginalized due to their non-diversity status, exclusion and the unrealistic expectations placed upon them.
From my own experiences, it can be terrifying to face leadership within the mental health community, boldly attacking to undermine your standing in a community or a purer setting. In my experience, bullying within mental health systems creates a domino effect, causing both indirectly and directly diverse individuals to prejudge individuals bullied by the mental health systems representatives which in return leaves the bullied isolated and disturbed.
Interestingly, bullying within mental health systems can be seen as having a positive long-term effect. It may shed light on similar personality traits among others who undergo exclusion, ultimately forming a network of resilient mental health advocates.
3)Bullying in a mental health system is supported by the network more when a client has a history of violent behaviors.
Mental health patients are held accountable for their individual actions, much like criminals who are incarcerated without behavioral health considerations. Mental health clients can be deemed incompetent based solely on the perceptions of mental health system representatives and the stigma surrounding mental illness. They may have a history of violent behavior during psychosis or while taking medications yet may not exhibit paranoia or psychosis as reported. When facing physical or behavioral violence after being bullied, it can be challenging for any party involved to see the mental health patient as a victim, due to stereotypes and stigmas.
Breaking through the barriers of mental health stigma and its numerous stereotypes presents many challenges, given the circumstances. For example, when a mental health patient is bullied and has a history of violence but is neither indirectly nor directly diverse, they may be an excluded individual fostered by the mental health system's sector of inclusion. Various situations and circumstances could contribute to their history of violent behavior, such as medication, childhood victimization, or domestic violence. In my own experience, a history of violent behavior occurred during a psychosis episode triggered by detoxing from medication, withdrawal symptoms, and leaving an abusive domestic relationship.
Later, a mental health system representative stated that I was not responsible for the violent behavior. Multiple factors, including medication and studies on patients taking Abilify (which I was prescribed at the time), contributed to this episode. Abilify was subsequently found to potentially cause impulsive behaviors, violent episodes, sexual behaviors, gambling, and substance abuse problems. Despite lawsuits and settlements involving hundreds of thousands of patients, the mental health and legal systems still held me accountable for actions taken while on Abilify.
My psychotic behavior while taking the medication may have triggered my initial violent act, but the causes and effects were not fully considered. I was charged in court and placed under a 51 50 hold, without being seen as a victim due to the medication's influence. The mental health systems in America prescribed me harmful medication that contributed to unhealthy relationships and poor decisions. I felt let down by the mental health system because I followed my doctor's prescribed regimen. I felt bullied into compromising my well-being and physical health by being persistent and taking my medication as I disregard how I begin to dwindle away in areas of decision making, behaviors, and daily functioning. Fearful while being blackmailed to take medication or be confined. Moreover, despite requesting a medication change while my doctor was on leave, I felt pressured into continuing the harmful medication, which had side effects not adequately disclosed. This so-called history of violence drastically altered my life, affecting my relationships, well-being, and reputation among community leaders. At times, I felt coerced into taking medication and unfairly stigmatized, leading to my involuntary psychiatric hold.
Upon examining how bullying and mental health systems affect the mentally ill, it becomes clear that these issues extend to daily life, threatening aspects like self-care, finances, and housing. The causes and effects of bullying within mental health systems can ostracize individuals from society and diverse settings. In return they seek control over the bullied lives impacting communities and individuals that are non-informants. These systems operate hierarchically, posing risks to the nation and its leadership qualities through communicative manifestations. These communicative manifestations aim to transmit viruses and promote equal rights for indirectly and directly diversified people, often at the expense of non-informants. Non-informants are individuals ostracized from their communities or societies, impeding their control over health, wellness, and political power within the broader population.
Below are some bullet points that highlights briefly summarize the causes and effects on a larger scale.
Bullying in a mental health system that interfere with daily living are threatening and often involve blackmailing.
Bullying in a mental health system is used to ostracize one from a society in a diverse setting to gain control over their lives to revive communities and individuals
Bullying in a mental health systems jeopardize the country and leadership born qualities
Bullying in a mental health systems is used to transmit viruses to create equal rights at the expense of non-informants. Bullying in a mental health system is overlooked by the police that only serve the community at a societal detrimental level
The first thing to do when facing bullying in the mental health system sector is to understand why and how it is happening to you as an individual whether the vast population of your peers of mental health concerns.
Next, is to see yourself as an independent from mental health system aside for appointment, therapy, and medication. Then, continuously advocating for self in the spirit for your rights to live free from suppression and unjust circumstances bullying contributes to.
This blog post was drawn from my lived experience and education. Please reach out to me if you have questions and want a further in-depth response regarding bullying from mental health systems and the causes and effects from a peer educator-peer counselor role.
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