That's a picture from today.
That seems to be the response of the Institute of Contemporay Art and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to my objections to the ad that's in the Central Square train station.
When I leave a psychiatric facility, I know that what I'm facing when I get out is what caused me to have to ask to be in that facility. When I decide to ask to be admitted to a mental hospital or crisis unit instead of deciding to kill myself, I know that what I'm deciding is to continue to live a life of psychological and social torture; torture that I can't stop, torture for which I am ridiculed and victim-blamed, torture which is used as a weapon against my right of free speech, torture that is character assassination, torture which is the amusement of everyone who participates in it, torture which has damaged or destroyed every opportunity that I have had to be a productive part of society. Then I get blamed for that, also, accused of not wanting or being capable of work or school or anything other than homelessness and financial dependency.
Copyright L. Kochman, December 5, 2016 @ 4:02 p.m.
