Suffering, defending rights, suffering again, thorns and a new road ahead--My twists and turns of struggle (13) (Chapter 4, Section 4 I)

(4) Experiences and setbacks before discharge

1. Doctors discouraged me from defending my rights; examples and analysis of cases in mainland China using mental hospitals to persecute rights defenders, citing relevant authoritative articles and investigation reports

After a call with my father, my discharge was finally on the agenda.

After confirming that my father would not come to Hong Kong, I saw Dr. Chen again. Regarding the question of mishearing, she only said that she knew that my father would not come, and she did not mention her own misunderstanding, nor did she admit or apologize. For these doctors, it is estimated that she/they think that the inpatients are mostly "patients", and they don't need to be respected as citizens, nor do they think that her negligence may cause me to be locked for a few more weeks or even months. thing. As for the issue of responsibility, I'm afraid she doesn't have it in her mind at all. As a doctor, she doesn't have any higher morality and sense of responsibility than the public (although the higher the status, the heavier the responsibility, the greater the responsibility should be). After evading her fault, she started talking to me specifically about my discharge and post-discharge. She asked me if I would continue to defend my rights after I was discharged from the hospital, and I said that I would adopt a moderate method (in fact, I also adopted a moderate method to defend my rights before committing suicide). She said, can you let go of these things and start a new life, which means that she does not agree with me being obsessed with defending rights. I said, I hope that by posting my story to the media and then appealing, the public can pay attention to and understand the suffering of these victims of school violence; I hope to organize the victims and help each other, that is, use Solve problems in a constructive way (rather than creating hatred and destruction). In several conversations on the eve of discharge, she repeatedly suggested that I let go of the past and give up defending my rights. Of course, this is understandable from her point of view, because she contacted my father and misunderstood that the school violence I encountered was not serious; and her "professional responsibility" was to prevent me from committing excessive behaviors such as suicide after I was discharged from the hospital. She thought that if I defended my rights again, I might act aggressively again, so she discouraged me from defending my rights. I was worried that if I insisted on defending my rights, she would not let me out of the hospital, so I had to say that I would let go of the past, find a job, and start a new life.

My take on this dissuasion is that they simply don't understand the severity and reality of the victim's suffering. In my case, several doctors (including the aforementioned Queen Mary Hospital) did not understand the necessity of the demands contained in my rights and appeals. My motivations and goals for defending rights have been elaborated in the first chapter of this article. Due to school violence and cyber violence, I have suffered severe physical and mental trauma, and my future has been destroyed. I cannot study and work normally. How can I write off it? Besides, I have no choice but to defend my rights. To put it badly, can you medical staff make up for my youth, schoolwork and other collateral losses for those perpetrators of school violence? Can you help me get my bright future back? Even if you don't talk about the huge damage, even if you can give me a few months of living expenses to get me through it? You can't 100%, you just lock me up to make me suffer and waste Hong Kong taxpayers' money. So why stop me from defending my rights?

More importantly, what I have done and the goal I have pursued is to draw attention from all walks of life to the universal (rather than individual) problems of school violence and cyber violence through media reports, government attention, and the participation of celebrities, and to promote Establishment and implementation of institutionalized and legalized prevention and control measures, protection, rescue, and compensation for victims... In short, I use fair and honest means to call for a constructive solution to the widespread school violence and cyber violence in China and the world The problem is doing good things, real things, and progress. Why can't you do good deeds? I am not harming people, but saving people. I am fighting for the rights and interests of the victims who are sympathetic to the same disease, so as to prevent future children from repeating the tragic mistakes of me and many victims. Why stop me from doing these necessary and scarce things? When Zhang Pingyi helped children with leprosy, and when Gao Yaojie called for attention to AIDS, should it be stopped? Do you want to persuade them to "don't save people" and "don't appeal"?

Doctors in mental hospitals/psychiatric wards in Hong Kong are only discouraging rights defenders. Even if there are problems objectively, no malicious intentions, and even she/they thinks they are well-intentioned, hospitals are less likely to treat rights defenders at will (I am after all Suicidal behavior, even follow-up treatment has many unreasonable). But mainland China is completely different. By imprisoning rights defenders, petitioners, pro-democracy activists, and various dissidents in mental hospitals to suppress rights protection activities and social movements, it has become a common method frequently used by local governments in mainland China and acquiesced and condoned by the central government. Since Xi Jinping came to power, this "psychotic" method has intensified, and under the situation of high pressure to maintain stability and news control, the victims have no way to escape and nowhere to ask for help.

In this move, the rights protection news website "Minsheng Watch" (due to the CCP's suppression, the website cannot be viewed in China unless a VPN is used) interviewed Wei Xiuyun, a mentally ill patient in Zaoyang, Hubei, as a typical case (the key content is marked in bold). out):

"Interview with Wei Xiuyun, a mentally ill patient in Zaoyang, Hubei"

Author: Minsheng Editor 1 Article source: Original update time: 2018-08-29 23:19

Interviewee: Wei Xiuyun (female)

When: July 24, 2018

Location: West Yanhe Road, Zaoyang City, Hubei Province

Under the single-party dictatorship of the Communist Party, some people who hold public power use the idea of being “mentally ill” to retaliate against rights defenders and solve the “unstable people” who affect the overall situation of local stability. This phenomenon is not only a moral issue, but also a problem. A brutal and illegal method. Forcibly "sentence" a healthy person as a "mental patient" reflects the wanton destruction and trampling of citizens' private rights under the unchecked public power. For the use of public power involving private rights, relying solely on legislation to prohibit the use of public power by those in power with unscrupulous intentions is tantamount to building a castle in the air and pondering it in the mirror. Effective checks and balances must be made in the top-level design of constitutional democracy, separation of powers, and multi-party competition, so that public power can truly be locked in the cage of the system. Only in this way can we completely change the brutal infringement of private rights by public power in the form of drinking poison to quench thirst, effectively improve the government's credibility, continuously enhance the people's sense of security, and achieve harmony, stability and long-term stability on the basis that public power and private power are not inconsistent with each other.

This website has learned that Wei Xiuyun (female), an accountant in Taiping Town, Zaoyang City, Hubei Province, was repeatedly sent to the hospital's psychiatric department for "compulsory treatment" by the town leaders and the stability maintenance police because she insisted on exposing the problem of the unit leaders asking for bribes from lower-level departments. On July 24, 2018, volunteers of this website came to Zaoyang City, Hubei Province to find Wei Xiuyun, and gave an exclusive interview to her about her mental illness.

The full text is as follows:

Volunteer: Hello Wei Xiuyun! According to Bai Jianqiang, a human rights activist in Zaoyang, you have been repeatedly sent to a mental hospital for “diagnosis and treatment” by the government’s stability maintenance department because you have been reporting bribery requests by town leaders. ?

Wei Xiuyun: Yes, I am willing to accept the interview. I hope you will pay attention to my tragic experience and help me to further protect my rights.

Volunteer: May I ask why you were sent to a mental hospital for "diagnosis and treatment" by the local government? Who sent you there?

Wei Xiuyun: I was originally an accountant in Taiping Town, Zaoyang City. Because the town government often asks the village committee below for a lot of money, and my family was born in a village, I know the difficulties of each village committee, so I decided to In 2004, it began to report the corruption of the town government. However, I never thought that my report was not investigated and dealt with, but was disclosed to the Taiping Town Government by my superiors. After the incident, the town government transferred me from my post and threatened me from time to time. For this reason, I began to petition in Xiangyang City and the Beijing Bureau of Letters and Calls. After that, the town government listed me as the object of stable control and repeatedly illegally accused me. Being detained at home prevented me from going out to petition. The first time I was sent to a mental hospital was on January 3, 2005.

On the same day, Ma Wei, a staff member of the town government of Taiping Town, led a group of people to deceive me to Wuhan City, Hubei Province on the pretext of helping me solve the problem. The psychiatric department of the hospital was handed over to the hospital for custody. During the period, the hospital doctor asked our town government staff: "She is really a mental patient?" The town government staff said: "She is very paranoid and likes to petition and complain, so no matter how much your hospital charges, as long as you get her one If she is mentally ill (cases), we will keep her here for a long time, your hospital can generate income, and our town government can prevent her from going to Beijing to petition. " After the incident, I was detained in this hospital for one day, and the next day, one of the hospital's A leader came to the ward and found that I didn't look like a mental patient, so he asked the doctor to do a mental illness checkup for me. The result of the checkup showed that my mental state was within the normal range (with a certificate of checkup results). After the hospital director got the news, he immediately notified the doctors in the psychiatric department: " Hurry up and tell the town government to let them come and take this person within 24 hours. This falsification of facts to imprison a normal person in a mental hospital is a very serious violation of discipline, and if it is exposed, I am afraid that I will not be able to be the director of the hospital." Later, my brother was notified and rushed to the hospital to pick me up. to the hospital. After my brother and I returned to Zaoyang City, I continued to petition and report.

During the petition, I was illegally kidnapped and detained by the town government officials and police several times. The longest time was when the Zaoyang City stability maintenance police detained me in a toll room in Beijing for seven months.

Volunteer: Have you been detained in a mental hospital since then?

Wei Xiuyun: Yes. About January 4, 2006, a staff member of our town government suddenly notified me that "you have successfully reported the report. The government and the procuratorate have decided to reward you and compensate you. You should go to the procuratorate to go through the formalities.", when I arrived At the entrance of the procuratorate, several staff members of the town government rushed forward and kidnapped me to the Xiangyang City Mental Hospital for "diagnosis and treatment". At the beginning of the period, a few people from the town government pushed me into the hospital. After entering the hospital, the medical staff controlled me again. They quickly stole my belongings, and then took off my coat, belt, and shoes. They tied me to a big iron bed and started to force me with drugs, and I resisted desperately, and they tightened my hands hard, until they tied me for six days and six nights and couldn't resist, they didn't give me Untie. After the loosening, my hands were swollen and numb, and they lost their normal functions. They have not recovered to this day. After 12 years, my hands are still severely red, swollen and painful. Also, they gave me an unidentified drug for 6 consecutive days, which caused my eyes to develop lesions and tear for a long time.

Volunteer: Do you know the name of the person who kidnapped you to the mental hospital?

Wei Xiuyun: I know, it was Wang Xingguo, secretary of the Taiping Town Party Committee, and six members of the Party Committee, including the female director, who kidnapped me to the psychiatric hospital.

Volunteer: Do you remember the name of that psychiatric hospital?

Wei Xiuyun: Remember, it is the fourth ward of the "Anding Hospital" (sound) in Xiangyang City, Hubei Province.

Volunteer: Has the doctor checked you for mental illness?

Wei Xiuyun: I didn't have an examination. The hospital faked a case saying that I was mentally ill, and the doctor threatened me many times, saying, "The government handed you over to us to correct the problem that you like petitioning and filing complaints. Now, we Are you afraid of locking you up with lunatics? See if you are still petitioning or not?"

Volunteer: Have you ever been beaten in the hospital?

Wei Xiuyun: Yes! They gave me medicines for six days in a row, and I refused to take these unknown medicines, and then the medical staff would grab my hair, hit me in the face, then pinch my nose, and use chopsticks to pry my teeth open Put medicine in your mouth. Once, when I clenched my teeth and refused to obey, they took a pair of chopsticks and forcibly pryed my teeth, which ended up prying down one of my front teeth and breaking my lips. The chopsticks stuck in my mouth and pried, and I didn't let go until I pried my mouth open to finish the medicine. After taking the medicine, I started to faint and passed out slowly. I was unconscious, and even lost my bowels and bowels. When I woke up, I found the bed was full of dirt. Until now, this one of my teeth has not recovered, the teeth have turned black and often bleed, and there is still a visible black scar on my lips.

Volunteer: How do you feel living with a mental patient?

Wei Xiuyun: The doctor detained me with more than a dozen female mental patients. These female patients are old and young. They are real mental patients. They also have this situation in the middle of the night, which is very scary. Others run around with the bed over their heads, stumbling around, making it difficult to fall asleep. There are also some patients who will suddenly grin as if they are about to beat someone. I feel very insecure and highly nervous. I think the town government has another attempt to detain me in a mental hospital, that is, they want to use this to intimidate and warn me, so that I will not dare to petition in the future. Furthermore, they sent me to a mental hospital for "diagnosis and treatment" and fabricated cases, so that they could say that I was a mental patient, and my petition and reporting behavior in the future would be deemed invalid.

Volunteer: Was your daily life normal before you were put in a mental hospital? Have you been diagnosed with mental illness in the hospital? Has there been any violent self-harm or assault that hurt others?

Wei Xiuyun: Before I was detained in a mental hospital, my daily life was normal. I had never been found to have a mental illness. There was no genetic history of mental illness in my family, nor did I experience violent self-harm or harm to others. Get along well with colleagues and neighbors at work.

Volunteer: How did you come out in the end?

Wei Xiuyun: I was detained for six days and six nights. After my daughter's grandfather got the news, he made a special trip to the "An Ding Hospital" in Xiangyang City to strongly demand that he be released, otherwise he would have to petition and file a complaint. Our town government is afraid that things will get worse. The older I told the hospital to let me go home.

Volunteer: After being tortured in a mental hospital, do you still dare to petition to defend your rights?

Wei Xiuyun: I did have a psychological shadow for a period of time when I was released, and I had lingering fears. After all, I was tortured inside for six days and six nights. However, as I learned about the law, I began to overcome my fears, and I felt that it was the government officials who broke the law, not me, that I should be afraid of. After that, I recuperated at home for a period of time, cultivated my body, and then started to petition for rights protection. I still insist on petitioning and reporting to this day. I have already achieved some victories. This is the Zaoyang Stability Maintenance Department. I have already promised to pay 30,000 yuan to my daughter and me for being beaten by them.

Volunteer: Has your daughter been beaten by the stability guards too?

Wei Xiuyun: Yes, my daughter is going to college in Beijing. Once I escaped the surveillance of the security guards and went to Beijing to petition. The security guards from Zaoyang chased after them to Beijing, but they couldn’t find my person for a while. Just found my daughter's school. When they got to the school, they lied that the town government gave my daughter a school grant, so as to cheat my daughter out of the school. The daughter was beaten all over. After that, they tried to force my daughter to call me for help. After I received the call from my daughter, I hurried over. As a result, the stability maintenance personnel forcibly kidnapped me back to Zaoyang and detained me for many days. Afterwards, I demanded compensation from them, but they were rejected. For this reason, I appealed and complained many times. Finally, after years of hard work, they finally agreed to pay 30,000 yuan. Although they compensated for this matter, they did not compensate for other persecutions, so I still insist on petitioning and reporting.

Volunteer: Okay, thank you for accepting our interview, I wish you an early success in defending your rights!

Wei Xiuyun: Thank you for your attention, and I hope all sectors of society can help me. thanks"

The practice of forcibly sending rights defenders to psychiatric hospitals by governments across China has become common and normalized in recent years. It has become an unspoken rule of tacit cooperation between government officials, psychiatric hospital managers and even medical staff, and has become an integral part of the stability maintenance system. part. Therefore, there are countless cases like Wei Xiuyun. There are nearly 500 pieces of information on the "People's Livelihood Observation" section of the website "being mentally ill", involving 200-300 rights defenders. On another rights protection website, "Human Rights Protection Network", there are also 129 pieces of information, some of which can be mutually verified with the information on the "People's Livelihood Watch" website. What is even more frightening is that due to the following reasons, the disclosed cases of "mental illness" are only the tip of the iceberg of "mental illness" cases in mainland China that are more terrifying than judicial injustices and even more impossible to redress: It is difficult for petitioners to be repressed by the government. Coalition, lack of information, and generally lack of a high level of knowledge and culture (this has a key impact on the quality of writing and dictation), many “mentally ill” rights defenders have not been able to get in touch with rights protection websites, etc., and even if they do, they cannot express clearly Situation; the government’s crackdown on press freedom is extremely severe, and the defenders of rights protection websites have been arrested (for example, Liu Feiyue, the person responsible for the “Minsheng Watch” website that reported the case was arrested), and it is difficult to interview and report rights defenders who are “mentally ill”; Mental hospitals generally resist media interviews...

In this case, the victim, Wei Xiuyun, was sent to a mental hospital twice by the government just because she reported corruption. She was brutally abused and traumatized in the hospital, and she was left with sequelae and could not live a normal life. But somehow, she was lucky (and many others were unlucky): 1. She was locked up in a mental hospital for the first time, and the hospital released her for fear of being exposed by the media. The time is 2005. At that time, the freedom of the press in China was relatively high, and various infringement incidents and rights protection incidents were exposed more frequently (for example, radio and TV programs often conducted unannounced visits to investigate and broadcast various bad deeds of local governments), and mental hospitals and medical staff were subject to certain degrees of harassment. Supervision and restraint (although there is still a risk of being "mentally ill", for example, when she was in a mental hospital for the second time in 2006, there was no media coverage). Since 2013, there has been little freedom of the press, negative reports have been blocked on a large scale, and reports exposing the dark side of the government are even rarer, so it is difficult for the mainland media to spread this kind of "psychotic" incident. Overseas websites or websites outside the Great Firewall have very little influence in mainland China and are invisible to the vast majority of the public. Exposure to these websites or the media has almost no actual impact on officials and hospitals. 2. Her family has always supported her and tried every means to rescue her. She was released only after her father-in-law's "disturbance" and insistence; her brother also helped her. But on the whole, many family members will not rescue, dare not rescue, or try their best to rescue family members who are "mentally ill" due to rights protection (not to mention those who take the initiative to send their family members to Psychiatric hospital), will lead to long-term or even lifelong imprisonment of the victim in a psychiatric hospital. And those defenders who are permanently detained in mental hospitals are more vulnerable to medical abuse (because they are not afraid of speaking out), and they will never have the opportunity to speak out about their suffering and seek grievances. There are also some people who have no immediate family members and are alone, which is even more tragic. When they are arrested in a mental hospital, no one knows at all. Some people know that they are not relatives and have no right to ask the hospital to release them.

Here is a list of some Chinese rights defenders or political opponents who are "mentally ill" and have been detained/incarcerated in mental hospitals: Luo Yinghua, Li Jinping, Qian Jin, Hu Di, Jiao Yanshou, Wang Qunfeng, Zhong Yafang, Lin Xiuli, Xu Wu , Bao Junsheng, Geng Zhaohong, Wei Chaozhi, Zhang Jun, Wang Peijian, Wang Guoyin, Qu Liangfu, Xing Shiku, Chen Cuiling, Wang Zhifeng, Zhu Han, Li Xiaoping, Xu Dajin, Zhang Zhi, Zhang Wenhe, Cao Sunzhong, He Fangwu, Peng Lanlan, Zhang Haiyan, Zhu Mingxia, Sun Liyong , Du Ling, Shi Genyuan, Song Zaimin, Liu Wei, Ma Shengfen, Huang Meifang, You Baofen, Shen Jiajun, Zhu Guanghua, Pan Xianyang, Gu Xianghong, Xia Funian, Wang Hedi, Lu Liming, Ding Jianyong, Deng Guangying, Cai Yinglan, Ren Yijun, Li Benfeng, Pan Bin, Zhang Qi, Wang Shou'an, Chen Bixiang, Zhang Jilin, Liu Gang (not the student leader of the June 4th Movement), Cao Jiyue, Yang Zhixiang... Some of them/them are not mentally ill at all and are in normal mental state; , being suppressed and persecuted, suffering from poverty and illness, causing anxiety, depression, fear, or other mental illnesses, but without any dangerous behavior or intention such as suicide or hurting others, and do not need to be imprisoned for closed treatment; even if some individuals do have serious mental illnesses They should also be allowed to be discharged from the hospital when they are cured or in remission... But most of them are illegally detained, and whether they are detained or released, they are often out of procedure and require family members or fellow human rights defenders to go to great lengths or beg or make trouble before they can be rescued. Even when they are allowed to leave the hospital, it is often the government, not the hospital, that decides. Of course, they are relatively lucky because they have received public attention (and those who have not received attention will naturally not be able to access rights protection websites), and some of them have high status and popularity, such as writers, scholars/university teachers, rights protection leaders/famous rights defenders , easy to get attention and solidarity, so some of them have been released. Those who have not been disclosed or whose names are unknown are rights defenders and petitioners who are not well-known. They have been detained for longer and suffered more severely. Maybe they will be detained in mental hospitals forever, and no one will be tortured. know. Of course, in many counties and cities, people are more or less aware of such things, and you can see similar comments from time to time on Zhihu and Weibo. However, due to the control of speech, especially the deletion of posts, bans, and bans, most events remain unknown. Even if it is exposed, there is often no specific name, location and basic situation. As a result, one by one fresh lives were destroyed in the cage of the mental ward.

Regarding the situation of "being mentally ill" that is rampant in China, the aforementioned "New York University Law School researcher, Professor Yin Chi, who has served as a judge in China for six years, and the director of the Asian American Law Institute of New York University Law School The article "Mental Health, Compulsory Admission and Arbitrary Detention in China" co-authored by Professor Kong Jierong, a senior Chinese affairs expert, has precise analysis and criticism:

“In China, at least hundreds of people are forcibly and involuntarily admitted to hospital by mental health institutions every day. Among these people, some go through the criminal procedure of the case in which they are involved. It goes without saying whether and how to admit a patient with a severe mental disorder. And how long it takes is a growing worldwide issue that has proven to be particularly acute in China, where the government employs a variety of methods to detain its citizens.

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With regard to the compulsory admission of persons with mental disorders, the potential for arbitrary detention is high. In this regard, China still has a lot to do in protecting the personal freedom of its citizens. Although the provisions in the Criminal Procedure Law and the Public Security Administration Punishment Law are imperfect, they at least aim to provide some basic protections for so-called criminals and lawbreakers, respectively. Even the daunting new Surveillance Act -- while it has nothing to do with compulsory mental health admissions -- authorizes a new state agency to place government officials or state-related managers on liens for all kinds of misconduct. (although that period is long). However, the Chinese government uses mental hospitals and other less visible institutions, including compulsory drug rehabilitation centers for drug addicts and prostitutes, detention and education centers, "political re-education" bases, and "black prisons" to a large extent. The practice of arbitrarily detaining citizens in an unregulated manner has been widely criticized.

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Currently, there is no place for a truly neutral third party in the involuntary hospitalization of mentally ill patients in China. Under the Mental Health Act, a diagnostic decision by two psychiatric practitioners is sufficient for a patient to be admitted (and possibly for life) without a hearing or judicial leave. Thus, following the model of the former Soviet Union, the forced admission of individuals to mental hospitals at official request has become a convenient means of suppressing dissidents and human rights activists. According to a recent report by the Minsheng Observatory, a Chinese NGO, China’s medical community “continues to compromise with the authorities in detaining critics of the government on the grounds that mental disorders require hospitalization.”

The Mental Health Act itself is also too broad to be properly implemented. "Mental disorders" are diseases regulated by the Act. Regrettably, the law defines it vaguely as "disorders or abnormalities of mental activities such as perception, emotion, or thinking caused by various reasons, resulting in obvious psychological distress or functional impairment such as social adjustment in patients." The definition is broad, and it goes without saying that not all of the reported 100 million Chinese people suffering from mental problems of varying degrees required involuntary hospitalization. The absence of due process in such an important decision-making process still undermines millions of people's fundamental right to freedom from arbitrary detention. "

Similarly, the "Darkest Corner" - China's Psychiatric Involuntary Treatment Abuse Report, written by the human rights organization "Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD)", also made a detailed analysis of the reasons for the prevalence of "mentally ill" in China ( There are also many case studies):

“One day in April 2011, at 2 a.m., Xu Wu pried open the window and escaped from the intensive care unit of the Psychiatric Department of the Second Hospital of Wuhan Iron and Steel Workers through the gap between the iron bars. Four years ago, Xu Wu’s unit and the police Together, against his will, he was sent to a mental hospital until he escaped.

Xu Wu said he was not mentally ill, but was forcibly admitted to a government department because of a complaint about his work unit. However, he was diagnosed with "delusional disorder" by the hospital and his symptoms did not improve in four years. After successfully escaping, Xu Wu went to Guangdong to participate in the recording of a TV program, telling the thrilling story of his persecution by the original unit and forced admission. When leaving the station, Xu Wu was stuffed into a taxi by seven men with a Wuhan accent (one of whom claimed to be a police officer) in the compound of the Southern TV station and left. Xu Wu was immediately taken back to the mental hospital, but this detonated a storm of public opinion about the compulsory admission of mental illness in China. On the Internet, there was heated discussion about whether he was mentally ill, and whether the hospital, Wuhan Iron and the local public security agency violated the law by detaining him in the hospital.

China's non-resource admissions system for mental illness is like a black hole. Just because a citizen is mentally ill, or even just because his family members, employers, public security agencies or other state agencies claim that he is mentally ill, he/she may "disappear" for an indefinite period of time.

According to official estimates, 800,000 people are admitted to mental hospitals in China every year. Many of them, like Xu Wu, were forcibly admitted. Once admitted to the hospital, they are prohibited from leaving unless the person who decides to admit them (the person who treats them) agrees to their discharge. In a hospital, a patient's right to make a decision is denied unless the hospital or the person who treats it also agrees with the decision; the latter is also legally regarded by the hospital as the "guardian" of the patient. Patients admitted to compulsory treatment also receive compulsory treatment including drugs and electric shocks. Chinese laws and regulations currently do not provide for independent review of the mental state of patients and the legality of admission, and patients do not have the right to request judicial review or to appoint a lawyer. The patient's right to communicate with the outside world is generally also denied.

Reasons behind the abuse of the involuntary admissions system

The weak legal system and the lack of independence of the judiciary are the main reasons for the current abuse of involuntary admissions. China currently does not have a law that specifically protects people with mental disorders. Although there are several national laws that deal with certain aspects of involuntary admissions, such as the Criminal Law, the Police Law, etc., the relevant provisions are not only vague, but also do not clarify the specific circumstances and procedures of involuntary admissions. Regulation. Some local legislatures have also enacted local regulations to regulate involuntary admissions, but these regulations are too broad in the circumstances of involuntary admissions. In addition, neither national laws nor local regulations currently provide for judicial review in admission procedures. Once a patient files a lawsuit against the hospital or the person who was sent to the hospital, the court is often reluctant to deal with it and provide effective judicial protection for the victim who is involuntarily admitted.

The Chinese government released the Mental Health Law (draft) in October 2011, but the timing of the draft's submission to the National People's Congress for a vote has not yet been determined. On the face of it, the draft makes amendments to the current system of compulsory admissions that violate the Covenant.

Involuntary psychiatric admissions used for political purposes

The current system of involuntary admissions is vulnerable to abuse. Those with "access" (both power and money) can coerce or pay hospitals to detain others as punishment or to "silence" them. These practices often result in impunity. In 2002, Human Rights Watch released a research report showing that forced admissions are used by the government for political purposes, mainly for the detention of political dissidents and Falun Gong practitioners. A decade later, the abuse of the psychiatric admissions system for similar political purposes continues. Many of those currently incarcerated are petitioners, dissidents or activists. In these cases, those who annoyed government officials, including those who petitioned higher authorities or made comments critical of the government, were sent to mental hospitals as punishment.

At the same time, the privatization of some mental hospitals since the 1980s has exacerbated this abuse. Some wealthy people can pay psychiatric institutions to incarcerate or enforce treatment of people, close relatives, employees, etc. they want to "get rid of", depending on the ability and willingness of the person to be treated. In some cases, the person receiving treatment agreed to pay a mental hospital to take in a "mentally ill" relative or employee. After receiving the instructions of the person to be treated, the hospital staff will even go to the street to "catch away" the relatives or employees of the person to be treated. With the increasing funding of government departments to maintain stability, the public security department began to pay the mental hospital, and the hospital would imprison the local "troublemakers" in disguise, and the mental hospital also benefited from it. …”

(There are many specific cases attached to this report, and each case also has a relatively detailed description and analysis. Any single case is as cruel as unjust imprisonment. In some cases, the details of the evil deeds of the mental hospital and the inaction of the judicial organs are astonishing. Due to space limitations, I will not cite it here (I will cite some cases where it is necessary to quote before and after the text). Those who see this paragraph and need to know more specific harm and related cases caused by "being mentally ill" can refer to Google search for ""The Darkest Corner"--Report on Abuse of Involuntary Admission of Psychiatry in China", you can find the full text of the original text)

The report also mentioned that many acts of Chinese mental hospitals, government agencies, and judicial organs, such as depriving involuntary patients or "mentally ill" persons of freedom of personal freedom of communication, depriving "patients" of the right to seek judicial remedies and protection, mental hospitals Violence and abuse of "patients" violate the "United Nations International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" ratified by the Chinese government in 2008. The "Convention" stipulates the following:

Equality and anti-discrimination (art. 5)

Equal recognition before the law (art. 12)

Access to justice (art. 13)

Liberty and security of person (art. 14)

Freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (art. 15)

Freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse (art. 16)

Protection of personal integrity (art. 17)

Respect for home and family (art. 23)

Health (Article 25)

But in a real environment where there is no rule of law, and the rights of the mentally ill and the "mentally ill" are fully deprived, the provisions in the Convention are so weak. Despite the attention of authoritative scholars such as Kong Jierong and Yin Chi, as well as the precise criticism of their articles and investigation reports written by relevant international institutions, the poor mental health situation in China, especially the issue of compulsory admissions, has not changed, on the contrary, it is still worsening with the deterioration of the general environment. deterioration. The suppression and blockade of press freedom also makes it difficult for these precious voices to be widely disseminated. In addition, in the era of information explosion, such issues that are relatively marginal to the public, even if they receive limited publication and dissemination, are immediately submerged in the turbidity of hundreds of millions of pieces of information, and it is difficult for them to gain widespread attention and attention from all walks of life. Pay enough attention, even if these articles and investigative reports carry the suffering and grievances of millions of people.

I have never been hospitalized in a mental hospital in mainland China, and I have only been detained in Hong Kong for 23 days, so I cannot personally experience the harsh environment of a mental hospital in mainland China and the suffering of the inpatients. Moreover, even the mental hospitals in the mainland are complex and diverse: mental hospitals of different regions, cities, and levels of mental hospitals, and mental wards of different models (fully closed or semi-closed; strictly isolated and with certain activity spaces), the situation is often quite different; Different doctors and nurses have different or even diametrically opposed attitudes and behaviors towards different patients. But there is no doubt that in any psychiatric hospital, the inpatients will lose their freedom, control, and various personal rights that they normally enjoy outside the hospital; In an unsupervised environment, the chances of being bullied and abused are greater than in a normal, free, open, at least legally bound, public social environment.

While writing this article, I read Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago from start to finish. Soxhlet described the darkness of the Soviet labor camps, prisons, deportation stations and places of exile incisively and vividly in his book, and analyzed it to the core. But unfortunately, in his book, he did not use a special chapter to describe the Soviet Union's use of mental hospitals to persecute dissidents and abuse of the mental illness compulsory treatment system to imprison people. The content (for example, mentioning that political prisoners in prisons went mad and were immediately dragged out to be beaten to death; criminal prisoners went on hunger strike, protested, and were sent to a mental hospital), which must be said to be a huge regret. And according to Solzhenitsyn's description of the Lenin-Stalin era (and later the Brezhnev era, when "psychosis" was more frequently used as an excuse to persecute dissidents), it is clear that the Soviet Union's mental illness A hospital is not likely to be any better than a prison. The lack of Soxhlet's description of the Soviet mental hospital may just prove that the mental hospital is more closed and dark than the labor camp, the proportion of permanent incarceration is higher, the psychological trauma to the detainees is more serious, and the stigma affects people Attention and trust in survivor narratives. All of this made it more difficult for relevant information to be disclosed, and fewer survivors had the ability and conditions to tell the inside story. Of course, it was also more difficult to obtain information about the history and politics of the Soviet Union (and the successor country Russia after the disintegration of the Soviet Union) and political researchers. attention of the international community and related parties.

Through my reading of materials related to "being mentally ill" in the past few months and my understanding of various cases, I believe that the mental health system in China and even many less developed countries is especially the evil created by the compulsory admission system. If people and organizations The institution can coordinate sufficient human, material and financial resources to conduct in-depth research, collect enough materials, and conduct sufficient analysis and interpretation, which is enough to dig out another "gulag" (even some developed countries) in the era of peace and development. There is also a lot of evil in mental hospitals/wards in countries and regions). Even if we only study China, since 1978, there have been at least millions of "mental patients" who have been unreasonably forcibly admitted to treatment and have been imprisoned for a long time (a large number of them have been imprisoned for life). sent to a mental hospital for reasons of Afterwards, they are allowed to return to society; or work in special positions provided by relief agencies, recuperate in welfare institutions, or self-sufficiency by a combination of the two. But the reality is generally sentenced to "life imprisonment." He/they suffered for a long time, far beyond the "rightists" and "counter-revolutionaries" who were detained in various prisons and labor camps as far away as the Great Northwest and the Great Northern Wilderness, as far as the Northwest and the Great Northern Wilderness, and as far away as the Beijing suburbs and Shanghai outside the extreme left era. The misery of their imprisonment and ill-treatment is roughly equal to or even partially surpassed by various victims, including political prisoners, serving sentences in similarly closed and dark labor camps, labor camps, and prisons.

It is a pity that so far, there are only a large number of oral and short essays of poor quality on the evil and ugliness in the mental hospital, and there is generally a lack of real names. There is no work that is shocking enough to be forced into treatment for these shouts and names. Suffering is too light, and academic and literary skills are not enough. For example, I cannot complete a book that is enough to attract widespread and even worldwide attention like "A Drop of Tears" and "Gulag Archipelago"; without personal experience For example, many scholars who are bystanders are unable to empathize with the sufferings of the most tragic people in detail, thoroughly, and in essence; those who suffer the most have not had the opportunity to write about their own sufferings. This is yet another cruel paradox.

2. A series of conversations before discharge

(Because of the long time, the following is only the general meaning of the conversation at that time, and there may be a slight deviation from the actual situation)

Around June 25, Dr. Chen, the male doctor, called me for questioning, still in the form of what I said and what he wrote. He asked me, do I still worry about being persecuted when I return to the mainland? I said that I have friends from the trade union to help me, and I am not afraid. Of course, at that time, Mr. Lin hadn't found a social worker who could help me, and it didn't necessarily help me much. Of course I'm still worried. But in order to be discharged from the hospital, and I was locked in the mental ward two times because of honest answers, I had to say that I was not worried. The male doctor Chen extended his thumb to encourage me (in the mental ward, I felt that even those with relatively sharp minds could feel the objective irony), and told me that because I was very calm during the hospital (actually, I was not allowed to do so) If I am not calm and patient, I will not be able to get out if I am not calm), so the doctor decided to allow me to be discharged from the hospital. I was very happy and asked him when can I be discharged? He told me as soon as this Saturday. I also learned from the nurses that there is a semi-closed recovery ward downstairs, so I asked Dr. Chen if he could be transferred to the recovery ward. He said that if he was discharged soon, he would not need to transfer. He also asked me what I was going to do after I was discharged from the hospital, and I said that I would find a job and study and live again. He gave me some encouragement and then said goodbye to me. (In addition, this male Dr. Chen wears a mask most of the time when he talks to me)

(As I have said before, it is inconvenient for me to disclose the names of those who talk to me about the internal regulations of the ward, their colleagues, and other issues related to their own interests. Of course, if someone needs to investigate and verify in the future, I will tell them separately. The specific nursing staff who spoke these words. Therefore, the names of the nursing staff mentioned below are withheld.)

I told the nurses that I had a good relationship with, and they were also happy that I was able to leave the hospital sooner. One of them was the nurse who told me there was a recovery ward downstairs. As I mentioned earlier, when I was first detained, I asked the attending doctor, Dr. Chen, to live in a semi-open ward instead of a fully enclosed ward, but she said no, and said that she had no right to transfer me to another place. ward. But the nurse told me around the Dragon Boat Festival that the floor below the K4 ward where I was staying was the recovery ward. He said that because he did not belong to the same area, he did not know the specific situation of the downstairs ward, but he generally understood that the management downstairs is more relaxed than the K4 ward I live in now, and the activity space is larger. I asked him if he could use mobile phones in the recovery ward, and he said it was not clear, it must be more relaxed than the K4 ward. Later, I checked the situation of the Hong Kong rehabilitation ward on the Internet, and I saw that there are many fitness facilities, more daily activities, etc. The nurse also told me that some patients who lived in the K4 ward were transferred to the downstairs rehabilitation ward because of their improvement, and then they were discharged after they improved. However, he also said that most of the patients were discharged directly from the hospital without being transferred to the ward halfway. When I asked Dr. Chen, the man, he said that I would be discharged soon so I didn't need to change, which means that the doctor has the right to change the ward for the inpatient. This is completely different from what Dr. Chen said. I also understand that these psychiatrists don't make drafts or blush when they lie. Or, the psychiatrist doesn't treat the resident/patient as a normal person, and thinks it's reasonable to be crap or perfunctory. And this is related to my activity space and daily life status. The quality of the ward environment and the degree of freedom will also affect my mental state, which is not unimportant.

I also talked to the nurse about the social role of the psychiatric ward. I said, it is very unfair to see me committing suicide to defend my rights, but being put in a mental ward. The role of the psychiatric ward, he said, is to treat people who may harm themselves or others, and isolate them from society. His implication should be that the mental ward is to maintain social order and public safety. I said, I know this, but putting these people in a mental ward is depriving them of their freedom and protecting the majority by sacrificing the interests of the minority. It was indeed a sacrifice, he said. He also told me that in Hong Kong, after you tell the doctor you don’t commit suicide, the doctor will let you out of the hospital. But I don't feel that way, otherwise, I wouldn't have been detained for 23 days, and I would have to contact my family before being released from the hospital. In mainland China, it is not so easy to let people go. I have already cited many examples.

I told him that my experience of being detained in a mental ward in Hong Kong could be regarded as a special life experience (although the price of this experience was too high, not only the pain during detention, but also the great sequelae). He was right, just take it as an experience. Also, I talked to him about Hong Kong politics. He said that now Hong Kong is more and more like the mainland. He admires those who fight against the CCP. He himself has no conditions to fight against the CCP, but supports those who have the courage to fight. I also asked him how long the youngest inpatients in his ward have been detained. He said that as far as he saw and understood, the shortest one left after only two hours, and some have been hospitalized for 10 years. Others have multiple admissions, discharges, and readmissions. Earlier, I saw him and other nursing staff tied up patients in Ward 5 to self-harm (such as constantly slapping themselves in the face), yelling and feeding patients, and told him that such people are very painful to live like this . He said our job (the paramedics) is to take care of them. I think, these people probably have been tossing themselves and being tossed to death. As far as I personally feel, in this situation, life is worse than death, and it is obviously better than euthanasia. I saw people who looked like teens were locked in. I asked him how old the youngest was, and he said that the youngest he had seen was more than ten years old (as if to say so). I also asked the nurse's opinion whether he would let me write down the situation in the mental ward. He said yes, yes. I also said to him and a few other nurses and nurses who were nice to me at the time that I would thank them when I left the hospital. At that time, I didn't expect something else to happen later, which made me realize that at least the behavior of those nurses, I was obviously wrong to thank them.

The other carer, on the other hand, has more conservative political and social views. When he heard the news that I was going to be discharged from the hospital, he said you should find a job to support your father (I told him about my family earlier), and stop doing those political things. He said that it was whimsical for me to engage in social movements and advised me to give up. Of course he had good intentions, but what happened to me after returning to China proved that I really couldn't give up. Two days before I was discharged from the hospital, I was threatened by Lu Weijie again. I told him the situation the next day, and he said, if I tell you (me) Lu Weijie (the implication should be that Lu is not good), you will definitely be angry again. He also persuaded me that it is impossible for everyone to like you (I never hoped that everyone likes me, but I do not like and should not be bullied and hurt), and there are many things to think about. He told me to pay attention to my appearance, to walk with my chest up and my head up, and not to be hunched over all day. I also said that I would write something after I went out, such as my feelings and comments about being held in a mental ward, and he said to me, "Look at you doing those things again". I also mentioned to him that it was unreasonable to be locked up. He said, if you commit suicide, it proves that you have a mental breakdown, and you are a patient who needs treatment. I said that I have no freedom in this ward, I am suffering, not healing. He said, "You, you are really in the midst of blessings and do not know the blessings. The air-conditioning is blowing here every day, and there is no money for eating and sleeping (he knows that I have applied for exemption of medical expenses). Look at the mainland mental hospital (what does it look like)?" Nursing homes in Hong Kong (what environment)? (The psychiatric ward in Hong Kong is indeed better than the one in the mainland, but it is still a psychiatric ward after all. The lack of freedom itself is the biggest harm. The food is often not enough (even if it is panic hunger), and sleeping pills are needed to sleep. Even so, some I still can't sleep at night. As for the day, I can't rest peacefully, even sitting down is not stable.)

Although this nurse has been criticizing me, she has a very good heart. He is a person who stands on the side of civilians and hopes to live a stable and small life. I disagree with some of his views, but respect him as a person.

In addition, some nurses raised the issue of the wage gap between medical staff. A nurse said that the monthly salary of nurses (nursing teachers) is 30,000-50,000, the head nurse and higher-level nurses are 60,000-80,000, and doctors are more than 100,000 a month. The salary of nurses is only a few thousand to more than 10,000, which is much lower than that of doctors and nurses. I remember that the approximate number is like this, but because it has been too long, I did not deliberately remember it at the time, so my memory may not be very accurate. But what is certain is that the income gap between medical staff in the same ward is huge. This was elicited while talking to him about the Hong Kong government's investment in mental wards. He said that the Hong Kong government has invested a lot in the construction of mental hospitals. If you (me) are required to pay hospital fees, it may cost thousands of Hong Kong dollars a day. I responded to him and said, I feel that the room and board conditions in the ward are not very good, and it does not occupy a lot of land in the high-rise building. Why spend so much money? He said that the main reason is that labor is expensive, and then he said these salary figures.

Among them, the huge wage gap between nurses and nurses is very unreasonable (as for doctors, I have no in-depth understanding of their work intensity and professional skills, nor do I understand the average salary level in Hong Kong and the income distribution of various industries, and there is no reference material. , difficult to judge). I have already talked about the responsibilities of nurses and nurses. As far as I can see, the work done by nurses and nurses is not much different, at least the labor intensity is similar. Of course, nurses need to master more professional skills than nurses, and do jobs that require a certain level of education, such as dispensing medicines, recording patient performance, and operating medical equipment. But this wage gap is too large, at least unequally distributed compared to most developed countries. So, does giving nurses high wages really help improve the quality and efficiency of nurses? Not necessarily. What I see is that there is no difference in the quality of nurses and nursing staff. As for labor intensity, it is even more similar. Although nurses do more professional work, they tend to sit in closed nurse stations and are more leisurely than nurses. In fact, they have more time to rest and do some personal affairs. For example, when a nurse sits outside, it is generally not inconvenient to take out a mobile phone to play (unless you send a message). Instead, you need to write some forms to pass the time (without paying attention to what is specifically recorded), while the nurse is likely to sit without monitoring. Cell phones are often used in the covered nurse station, which doesn't look like a job requirement, and a couple of times I've seen nurses clearly playing games on their phones from the window. In a relatively boring work environment, being able to use mobile phones more is an invisible benefit for nurses (of course, it is okay to use mobile phones at work, I believe that most people have used mobile phones for non-work tasks). Among the nurses, there are also scum like Lu Weijie, who bully hospitalized patients with high wages, have no basic professional ethics, and are also suspected of illegal crimes. The significant income gap among medical staff in the K4 ward of Eastern District Hospital is also a small microcosm of the gap between the rich and the poor in Hong Kong.

And just a week before I was discharged from the hospital, I saw a psychologist. Not long after I was admitted to the hospital, I told Dr. Chen that I hoped a psychologist would come to talk and do some psychotherapy. She said it would be arranged. Then more than ten days passed, and I didn't see it until I was about to be discharged from the hospital.

The consultant, whose surname is Jiang, is about 30 years old, very amiable, and can speak Mandarin. He told me that he had been asked to do counseling for me. I asked him how long he could talk and if he could consult every day. He said that there are a lot of people asking for counseling, and he only talks to me once a week or two, and this conversation can last for 40 minutes. So I told him about my personal situation in short sections, including my childhood and middle school years, and the reason why I cut my wrists and committed suicide. After listening, he expressed sympathy and understanding. He asked me what my plan was after I was discharged from the hospital, and I said it would depend on the situation, try to find a job as much as possible, or continue to study. During the period, I also talked with him about some situations of rights protection in mainland China. The whole conversation process was very pleasant, because he was a psychologist and had some interactive discussions with me, instead of just asking me about my personal situation rigidly like a doctor. At the end of the conversation, I told him that if I was discharged soon, I wouldn't have a chance to consult with him again, but if I didn't, I might meet again. He told me half-jokingly, that he still hoped that we would never meet again, and wished me an early discharge from the hospital. Then I say goodbye.

On the eve of my discharge, I also spoke with a "psychological counselor". As mentioned earlier, his name is Pan Wcong, and he and his colleagues met when he was lecturing to the inpatients. Because they gave lectures in Hong Kong dialect, I couldn't understand, and sometimes the Mr. Pan would give me some explanations in Mandarin. In addition to lecturing, he also goes to the ward to talk to the inpatients. I talked to him twice, the first time only for a short time. The second time was less than a week before discharge. He said that it was the female doctor Chen who wanted him to chat with me. He asked me what I was going to do after I was discharged from the hospital. I said that I would go to school or find a job, and continue to do things to prevent school violence. Did he say you still plan to defend your rights? I said yes, and the truth still blurted out, although I shouldn't have said it. Then he asked me if I would like to participate in some of the hospital's activities, which are open to residents who are improving. I was shocked at the time, because according to Dr. Chen, I was going to be discharged from the hospital soon, and then Mr. Pan asked me to participate in the activity. Is my discharge put on hold again? I asked him and he said it would not affect the discharge, but I was still very worried. I've also talked to him about academics since then, even though I'm afraid I'll have a hard time continuing my studies.

After Mr. Pan left, I was very worried that because I had to defend my rights, Dr. Chen would not let me out of the hospital. So, when he came to talk to other inpatients in the afternoon, I specifically told him that I hoped he would tell the female Dr. Chen that I hope to meet with my family as soon as possible and be discharged from the hospital as soon as possible. I will live a good life and will not defend my rights or commit suicide. . He promised to tell me that he would type what I said to the place where they communicated with each other (similar to an internal chat room), and the female doctor Chen would see it. I say goodbye.

I am anxiously waiting for Mr. Lin Zuming. Because I am worried that I will be controlled by the public security organs when I return to the mainland, so I hope someone on the mainland will respond. Then I asked the nurse about the visitation issue several times, to understand the visitation hours and requirements. The nurse asked me who was coming to visit, if not politically. I said why and he said it was what the doctor said. Then I asked another nurse. I said why I heard some nurses say that people involved in politics can't visit me. He said that your situation is special (should mean cutting your wrists at the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government), the hospital is a neutral institution and cannot be subject to outside interference. Didn't I say that the trade unions are also not good? He said it should be, don't worry, and don't know if it's true or perfunctory (but it doesn't actually prevent visits). Of course, if it is in the mainland, in most mental hospitals, except for family members who can visit, or family members bring people to visit, other people cannot see the inpatients. If the petition involves politics and rights protection, even family members may not be able to see them, let alone lawyers and members of rights protection NGOs.

Three days before he was discharged from the hospital, Mr. Lin Zuming came to visit. The whole conversation was mainly about my post-discharge arrangements (some of the content is inconvenient to talk about because of political sensitivity, and I will omit it here. Of course, I need to make a statement here, no matter Mr. Lin Zuming, Ms. Feng Ailing, and other pan-democratic people communicate with me At the time, they never let me engage in any political behavior in the mainland, on the contrary, some advised me to settle down and live a good life). Mr. Lin told me that the mainland side is not very good, because after all, I committed suicide in the Liaison Office, so some social workers are unwilling to respond because they are worried about being politically sensitive. I said what to do? He said he is still looking for someone to pick him up.

Then Mr. Lin told me that there was a well-known domestic defense lawyer in the field of "psychiatry", Ms. H, who was introduced by his friend, who was in Shenzhen, and asked me to contact me (of course, there are some reasonable and necessary considerations for me to contact myself). , but I don’t even know him directly. I’ve never known Ms. H, how can I contact you?), then gave me Ms. H’s mobile phone number and asked me to add her as a friend on WeChat. The note said it was Wang Qingmin, a student from Henan. Added immediately. He asked me to directly call the phone number to ask Ms. H if she was willing to pick me up. I called back and forth several times, but I heard that the other party was on the phone. It is estimated that it was automatically set to reject unfamiliar calls. And Mr. Lin asked me to use WeChat to send a message to Ms. H, and then tell her the general situation. I sent a message and Ms. H responded immediately. She said, what can I do for you? I said I hope someone will pick me up when I go back to Shenzhen to avoid losing contact. She asked, do you have no family? I said that my family is in Henan, far from Shenzhen, so I hope she can meet her at the exit. Then I sent her a couple of profile documents to let her know about me. Then it took a while for her to reply, forgetting what she said, but she didn't want to pick me up. At this time, the nurse called me and said that the doctor wanted to see me (not in the morning or in the evening, so I had to take up this visiting time), so I had to leave the visiting room (that is, the restaurant) to see Dr. Chen. It took more than ten minutes, and after the meeting, I returned to the visiting room. I told Mr. Lin that the doctor said I might be discharged by Friday. Then I called Ms. H and still couldn't get through. I said it seemed that the lady was unwilling to pick me up, and Mr. Lin said he would contact someone else to pick me up.

I asked Mr. Lin if he had made any progress in contacting the organization for the prevention and control of school violence. He said that he had inquired. There is no organization specialized in preventing and controlling school violence. There is only a gay rights protection organization called "Tongyu" in Beijing. There are concerns, but mainly for gay students. Mr. Lin asked me what my sexual orientation was. I said that my sexual orientation was heterosexual, but my gender temperament was somewhat feminine. At that time, I also took the opportunity to delete the photos I took at the June 4th Memorial Hall, the June 4th party and the party commemorating Mr. Li Wangyang (I didn't know what would happen when I returned to the mainland at that time, so I had to plan for the worst. I was worried about my phone after being sent back to the mainland. It was directly detained by the police, and it was too late to delete it). Then we talked a few more words. Mr. Lin said he had something to call and then I said goodbye to him.

When I saw the doctor in the middle, what did Dr. Chen tell me? She told me that the hospital might schedule my discharge on Friday (June 29) or Saturday (June 30). She said that she would issue a referral letter in English, and then let me go to a mainland hospital for further treatment. Did I say this is an official diagnosis? She said no. I asked if I could issue a formal and legally valid diagnosis certificate. She said that there is no way to issue any certificate (maybe my hospital stay is too short to be diagnosed with mental illness and the type and extent of the illness?). This referral letter also It's not a proof, just tell me your (me) personal situation, as well as the treatment process and performance here (the ward of the Eastern District Hospital), so that when you go back to the mainland to see a doctor, it is convenient for the doctor to understand the situation. I said there was no referral letter in Chinese, she said no. I said that the vast majority of hospitals in mainland China do not understand English. Can you write a Chinese-English version or translate it? She said that they can't translate (it's a procedural issue, not their responsibility), so I asked a friend to translate it myself. Then she asked me about my plan to leave the hospital, and I said I would study and work. She also asked me what career I wanted to do, and I said I wanted to be a teaching assistant. She said that it would require a high degree. I thought to myself that I thought I was enough to be admitted to the top 20 famous schools in the country, but I said in person that it would be considered a She didn't have time to listen to her mental disorder or something, and it was a long story, so I didn't refute it. I only said that I would work hard to find a job, and then I thanked me and left.

It is worth adding that I did not know the full names of the two Dr Chens from the beginning to the end. Especially the female Dr. Chen, who has seen me no less than seven or eight times, but never told me her full name verbally or by showing me her work card. And my discharge from the hospital, and even my future life, is almost entirely in her hands, so I naturally dare not ask her full name. Although the ward does not stipulate that the inpatients cannot ask the names of the medical staff, an invisible pressure makes the inpatients in the disadvantaged and the patients in the doctor's eyes dare not ask, and may offend the psychiatrist who decides their own destiny. This is the power of power and the potential shock/intimidation of the strong side. When the status is severely unequal and the strength is disparate, the weaker party will take the initiative and self-abandon many reasonable requirements and important right to know in the normal environment, so that the weaker will not dare to speak, and even resistance and conflict will not occur. , under the appearance of "peace" and "harmony", one party has lost its rights and interests silently and directly admitting its fate. This kind of situation can be found everywhere in all areas of society, whether in government agencies or in the marketplace. In the psychiatric ward, I dared not ask the name of the attending doctor, and I could not even know the most basic information of the person who decided whether I was free or not. This is an intuitive manifestation of social injustice and institutional oppression. (In turn, the medical staff has my medical records and other identification documents, and can also ask me many things) (While I was writing this article, I found the one that I took photos to prove that I was hospitalized there, and I was going to send it to my father as a police officer. The paper picture of the visa has the doctor's printed name and signature on it. The print should be the female doctor's name, called Chan Lok Yan Tammy, and the Chinese name is suspected to be "Chen Lexin (Chen Lexin)". However, the Chinese name is Not entirely sure)