They don't want to admit to suicidal thoughts for fear of being labeled mentally ill or being forcibly hospitalized.
Peisner reported that Johnston had been forcibly hospitalized twice in the previous three months, for medication adjustments.
Hundreds of defiant followers have been forcibly hospitalized and medicated, according to reports from Falun Gong and from human rights monitors.
This week, Yasin Malik, a leader of that separatist insurgency, went on a hunger strike to protest the blockade of Jammu and was forcibly hospitalized by security forces.
As a law student, Minter interned at the NCLR and helped start a legal aid program for young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) who had been forcibly hospitalized for psychological treatment to change their gender identity.
Produced between 2005 and 2011, his images show her isolated and claustrophobic existence: a nightgown she was wearing when forcibly hospitalized dangles alone in the frame; wrinkles ripple darkly across the sheets of an empty bed.
