NotSafeForTreatment

“To get ‘help’ you must engage in your shaming”

“I thought I understood before but these amazing art works made me realise that I didn’t! Although I know that I’ll never really know, I do know that I love my friend and will surely love all those that love her.”

“When we are gone we hope others will still care.”

“So many people are coming away from what they were told would help them, feeling that they are personally, fundamentally flawed, when it’s the system that is fundamentally flawed.”

“Wasted so many years hoping the next diagnosis / treatment / prescription would make me ‘better’. Now it feels too late.”

“I want so badly to advocate for myself and others but every time I think about being abandoned by mental health services when I had psychosis I just want to cry. NSFT has traumatised me.”

“I’m so scrambled from so many institutional traumas and abandonments that I couldn’t pick which was most important to write. I AM SO ANGRY ABOUT THAT.”

“Through creativity the unspeakable can shout. We need to listen with all of our senses.”

“A decade of harm in plain sight of everyone whose job it was to notice and act.”

“It’s like fear wasn’t a good enough reason, like they didn’t understand what fear could do.”

“A decade spend getting worse and feeling unheard. Mistreated, misdiagnosed, mugged off.”

“We listen we learn”

“How many deaths before we act?”

Thank you all. Amazingly powerful and experiences that need to be acknowledged and heard. It’s a shame those in power in ‘the system’ have not been here to see and feel. What’s that about? I’m not great with words so sorry this comment doesn’t do justice to what you’ve given me the priviledge of experiencing.

Very powerful – thank you for your honesty and showing vulnerability

This is an amazing thought provoking exhibition by such talented people, I hope it can be viewed by more people to raise awareness and result in change for the better.

Stumbled upon this and thankfully. Thought provoking and left us with a lot to think about. Thank you x

Thank you for creating such a safe space for people to share their experiences. Amazing art, amazing exhibition. Every mental health professional should have seen it.