Dear PM Mark Carney,
The question remains how will you deal with our invisible presence in Canadian society.
Especially as a practicing Catholic and Our Defender.
Yours sincerely,
A Concerned Canadian who feels bullied and betrayed by its own country
There’s too much cultural influence in modern day Christianity. Take out the culture and what you have is a raw, honest and humble conversation with God.
Enoch in Genesis 5:19-24 was valued because God considered him a friend who walked with Him for his lifetime. Then God did the most beautiful thing: He took Enoch instead of letting him return to the ground. He did not die like ordinary men. He didn’t die as a war hero or in a life enamoured by wealth. He was taken from this world as God’s friend. That is the only kind of Christian life I truly want.
Bible verses: Genesis 5:18-24
You can take the woman out of the fight but you can’t take the fight out of the woman.
I think I shared this before but I think it’s necessary to reiterate and reissue. It’s especially important for politicians to be smart and informed on psychosis.
A personal and political letter from someone you’d rather forget.
By Someone You’d Rather Forget
There is an uncomfortable truth that most people in our society quietly accept but never say aloud: the mentally ill—especially those of us with schizophrenia—are seen as too difficult to help and too inconvenient to keep around.
In public perception, schizophrenia is a black box: unknowable, unsolvable, unrelatable. No one wants to open it, much less look inside. People don’t know what to do with us, so they look away. Or worse, they push us toward institutional oblivion under the guise of “protection.” We’re told that laws are changing “for our own good,” but when we read between the lines, it’s clear: it’s not about us. It’s about making society more comfortable—at our expense.
Living on the Edge of Policy
I live in British Columbia, Canada, where recent amendments to the Mental Health Act have made it easier for authorities to detain people with mental illness against their will. This is happening under the banner of safety, but the line between care and control is growing thinner by the day.
With elections looming and politicians like Pierre Poilievre signaling even harsher views—such as defunding supports while also rejecting MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) for the mentally ill—the message is chillingly clear: we are seen as problems to be contained, not people to be understood.
What frightens me most is how fast this slope is slipping. A neighbor’s complaint. A misunderstanding. A bad day. That’s all it could take for someone like me to be stripped of my autonomy.
You think I’m exaggerating? Ask anyone living with schizophrenia how often they’ve had to mask their pain just to avoid being deemed a danger. Ask how many of us avoid calling for help because help looks like handcuffs.
We Are Already Invisible. Now We’re Being Erased.
Most self-help books, religious ministries, and public campaigns are made for neurotypical people dealing with manageable problems. They are not for people like me.
We don’t get psychiatrists. We get waitlists.
We don’t get compassion. We get control.
We don’t get healing. We get erasure.
And society is largely fine with it.
Don’t Wait Until It’s Your Child
I’m not writing this to make you feel guilty. I’m writing this because one day, it might be your child. Your niece. Your grandson. Mental illness doesn’t care how wealthy you are or how perfect your genes seem.
When that day comes, you’ll remember people like me—people you dismissed, disbelieved, or discredited—because we were inconvenient to your peace of mind.
This isn’t a threat. It’s a mirror.
When you build a society that disappears the vulnerable, that same structure will eventually turn inward. The same systems that erase us will erase you when you no longer serve them.
Make It Personal Now
If you care about justice, don’t wait until it’s personal. Make it personal now.
Advocate for care that respects autonomy. Challenge policies that criminalize mental illness. Listen when we speak. Stop deciding who gets to be visible.
We are not broken.
We are survivors of a broken world.
And until that world changes, I’ll keep speaking—for myself, and for those who’ve been silenced so long, they’ve forgotten what their voice even sounds like.
Cogency of this article was thanks to ChatGPT. The ideas are mostly mine as Ai inferred and distilled a few ideas .
Promises be like
Reality be like
Fuck off eugenicists.
What Pierre Poilievre said,
“…the mentally ill don’t need our help!”
“When I become PM I promise to ban MAiD for the mentally-ill forever!”
N.B. I think he doesn’t have a clue what he is doing and doesn’t even care to be thoughtful. In order to house all the unhelped mentally-ill people who cannot die by medical assistance in dying (MAiD), he has to build asylums and bring in unconstitutional laws to force them into those badly run asylums where there will be rampant abuse. But the public won’t see this. He would have locked them up and thrown away the key, laughing all the way to the bank. He either doesn’t care, or, at best, hasn’t thought this through. Shame on him. He does not deserve to be Prime Minister of Canada 🍁
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