Solitary Confinement

These metrics are normal for me and have been for more than a decade now:

• Days in a room alone
• Weeks without a conversation, even in-passing conversations, weeks without any kind of conversation at all
• Months without real socializing

I'm grateful my confinement has not been so inescable and so damaging as to qualify as torture.

Having been tortured in other ways and reading about how people are tortured through the particular punishment of solitary confinement in US prisons today, particularly homeless schizophrenic people tortured to death in prisons, gives me the most terrified form of gratitude imaginable.

I'm grateful I've not been tortured recently, I'm grateful I'm not being tortured right now, but I'm not at all confident that I'm safe from being tortured again.

Sharing my story

I'm interested in using my story as a tool for change. The systems are so bad, horrendous, really, and the solutions are so simple.

The journey's not over…

What I personally need in order to heal is so simple, yet unavailable, so my condition exacerbates and worsens, and has me in a bit of a crisis. I could certainly use some help.

Most upsetting is lacking ammenity to do my work.