There is so much that can become better.

"Life After Loss: The Still and Quieting Voice of Nature"

https://atmos.earth/mental-health-and-the-healing-of-nature/

"The truth is that mental health challenges do away with respectability. They bring up painful confessions, truths that you would rather not look in the face, and sharp untruths."

~ Georgina Johnson

"Care is gendered; it is political; it is body intensive and mentally exhausting. It is ok to admit this truth. In fact it’s time we did." 

~ Georgina Johnson

"To say that the mental health services in the U.K. are archaic is an understatement. Whether formal or informal patients, women often came into the unit dazed only to be taken to the physiatrist immediately, diagnosed on the spot, and ordered to take unexplained medication. This is what happened to me. If you rejected the medication or exhibited any anger, you’d be pinned down, sedated, and force fed the pills. I had conversations with women that couldn’t advocate for themselves for a number of reasons, ranging from energy levels to worsening health. Whatever the cause, they were still entitled to care—but what I witnessed was a microcosm of a system that exploits women in a vulnerable state. I couldn’t comprehend that this was where you were sent to get better. At least 80% of the women in my unit were Black and it felt as though the same things that threatened our safety and wellbeing in the outside world were tenfold there. We were being disappeared, our agency stolen. I was only lucky that I was coherent enough to demand that my mum be phoned in on every psychiatrist consultation because I knew she would inject some sense into a nonsensical situation."

~ Georgina Johnson

"The other women got me by. We made friends, ate together, and campaigned for one another. They were my blessing—they made me feel safe and cared for in a place that felt void of both. They were my prayer, they were God’s love irl."

~ Georgina Johnson