Psychiatric institutional "help" is often akin to throwing a boat anchor at a desperately swimming person, pointing at the resultant agitation as proof that the swimmer is drowning and is in need of more boat anchors, then warning the crew that they must be on the alert for anyone trying to climb out of the water, because people in the water are swimmers and must receive boat anchors. Those of us safely in the boat are not swimmers. Swimming is bad: normal people walk on solid things like boat decks. Anchors cure swimming. Oh, and if anyone on deck looks kind of wet, be alert to the possibility that you may be seeing a swimmer. We need to do more outreach and make sure that everyone who needs to be thrown a boat anchor gets one thrown at them because the signs of swimming can be really subtle.
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