this game made me feel a lot of things, but mostly it made me feel understood and seen and vindicated. it made me feel "right," in the sense of...a lot of people that have never been thru the psychiatric shitstem don't understand how horrifying it is, it is basically a prison for crazy people, is what they don't want to say.
in any medical situation (i have various chronic illnesses / disability), if you don't have an advocate, you are seen by the medical professionals and the hospitals as "an unwanted" and "an invalid" in the worst way if not, in psychiatry, "a number" (i got assigned A Number when i was there), and there's no avoiding the similarity to prison cell mate numbers.
it's so extremely dehumanizing to be "a patient" in any context, but psychiatric is the worst betrayal to anyone that doesn't know the reality of "getting a suicidal person 'Help'" which really just means "calling the police on you" and it's just.
i feel so so seen and understood and RELIEVED that someone else knows the Extreme Nightmarish Horror of the psychiatric system. because anyone that hasn't, those are the people that'll call 911 on you. those are the people, even well-intentioned, that think "help" means actual competent and compassionate medical attention and care that is of course deeply humanizing. instead of being dehumanized into a number under psychiatric imprisonment, made worse if you are "a person that would not be missed," i.e. a person with no family/friends/visitors/advocates.
so thank you. for making this.