Popping Pills: How I said no to abuse and lost

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Pub Date Jan 19 2017 | Archive Date Jan 20 2019

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Popping Pills: How I said no to abuse and lost Stewart’s book is an attempt to describe her experiences with the psychiatrists and the administration of the McGill University Health Centres of Montréal, Québec, Canada and explores her 25 year struggle to be free of the psychiatric abuse that she suffered under their care.

As a current out-patient under the thumb of the McGill University psychiatric department, where she was hospitalized after collapsing on a downtown Montréal street in 1993, and eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia—she has subsequently been forced-drugged and forced-confined repeatedly.

Stewart describes the oscillation between nauseousness and suffering physical pain due to the neuroleptic medications imposed on her and seeking justice with the court system that has failed her over the years and has even mocked her attempt to be freed of the university’s hold on her.

This book has detailed accounts of the feelings that she has experienced as someone who has always contended and continues to know that she is not mentally ill.

She has been persecuted for addressing her case with the authorities and this book is her story of how the medical system and mental health professionals and the politicians she opened her heart to, let her down.

Popping Pills: How I said no to abuse and lost Stewart’s book is an attempt to describe her experiences with the psychiatrists and the administration of the McGill University Health Centres of...


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ISBN 9781542655910
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