After I was raped by three Middle Eastern men I had to listen to a lot of people blame Middle Eastern men, me or both. So the horrible things being said about what happened to Lara Logan are not only not shocking to me, but I expected them. As soon as I heard the news I imagined all the crap people would say about how Egyptians are savages or about how she should have known it would happen since she put herself in that dangerous situation. If you don't want to get raped, you should wear a full-body Burka and sit in the closet all day praying that the Lord make you a clean thing.

My husband would hit the walls screaming, "You don't need to have a mental illness! Stop it!" until I cried that I wanted to die, I hated myself and felt so scared. To try to be what he wanted I worked on bipolar workbooks every day for hours to get "normal". Meanwhile, with all of his yelling at me, I started to have panic attacks. Then I started to have depersonalization - where I was dissociating so much that I thought I stopped existing. This is normal with PTSD, but the doctor said I was psychotic and drugged me more. Also, I was terrified that zombies were trying to kill me, so I'd hide in the closet terrified and suicidal. This was my way of trying to make sense of the terror I felt.

 

Psychiatry is a cult. A dangerous cult. A cult that mugs people, drugs people and imprisons them, trying to hypnotise them into believing in psychiatry by threatening them with higher doses of chemicals if they don’t. They prey on the vulnerable and lure youth in, claiming to cure people of their problems.