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We Are All Created Equal: A personal quest for justice and dignity
My friend encouraged me to write a book about my experiences with the mental health system.
“You should write a book,” she said.
“No, I couldn’t. No one would believe me,” I replied.
“Yes, you could,” she insisted. “You could call it One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the Sequel —it’s worse than the original.”
This 6,000-word, nonfiction piece provides an inside look at the societal treatment of people who have a mental illness. We Are All Created Equal opens with my voluntary admission to a psychiatric unit in Virginia in 2008. The account chronicles my conflict with the mental health system that began when hospital personnel assaulted me. It covers the facts surrounding the assault, as well as my resultant struggle for justice, not only with the mental health system, but also with the criminal justice system and government oversight agencies.
My intentions are to provide a forthright and fair account with a smidgen of humor. In doing so, I aspire to raise awareness of the prominence of discrimination against people with mental illness and to challenge the status quo.
The late President John F. Kennedy said, “One person can make a difference and every person should try.” I subscribe to this philosophy, and that is why I wrote this memoir.
“You should write a book,” she said.
“No, I couldn’t. No one would believe me,” I replied.
“Yes, you could,” she insisted. “You could call it One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the Sequel —it’s worse than the original.”
This 6,000-word, nonfiction piece provides an inside look at the societal treatment of people who have a mental illness. We Are All Created Equal opens with my voluntary admission to a psychiatric unit in Virginia in 2008. The account chronicles my conflict with the mental health system that began when hospital personnel assaulted me. It covers the facts surrounding the assault, as well as my resultant struggle for justice, not only with the mental health system, but also with the criminal justice system and government oversight agencies.
My intentions are to provide a forthright and fair account with a smidgen of humor. In doing so, I aspire to raise awareness of the prominence of discrimination against people with mental illness and to challenge the status quo.
The late President John F. Kennedy said, “One person can make a difference and every person should try.” I subscribe to this philosophy, and that is why I wrote this memoir.
27 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 1, 2011
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