A very real and bizzare dillema Please Help.
Hello, my name is Mark and I live in China. That’s right. I am an American living in China. My dad was sent here by his company, and he gets paid a lot of working here. I go to an American school in China where theres other people like me, and things used to be good.
My conflict with my parents is very very deep. We get into arguments for the slightest things and even though I really wanna change that, nothing ever works. My parents are really mad at me and know that I never listen to them. In turn Im sick of my parents always blaming me and accusing me.
Then one day something happened.
When this example with my family happens, I know that some families send their kids to boot camps. Even more families do nothing and let this problem play out. My parents (warning, this is shocking), sick of years of arguments and conflits, made a decision to punish me by sending me to a *Chinese* *Mental* *Hospital*.
Right now I know this is surprising please be assured, I am perfectly mentally sane. Even more, please be assured that I am not kidding this is real! I dont know what else I can say to make you believe me, but I would really like some help in my position.
In the mental hospital I am kept (imprisoned) to a series of bedrooms and an activity room. There are other very strange patients there. In the hospital they give me this medication that makes my head very foggy and unclear. After I take this I cant think very well and all my mental ability to do stuff like math is slightly marked down. If I refuse the medication the people there tie me to a bed and inject it into me. And that has happened too.
Since I behaved well, after a month at the mental hospital, I was allowed to spend weekends at home. My parents lie to my school and cover up everything so no one knows.
Its been two months since I first entered the mental hospital. I am sick of my parents’ outrageous punishment.
In fact, let me tell you in China you can just go to a mental hospital, pay some money, and they’ll hold someone there. There is no need in China for a doctor’s approval to enter a mental hospital. Effectively, mental hospitals are really just rent-a-jails, except for the drug part, which I BELIVE IS JUST WRONG. I SHOULD HAVE MY OWN FREEDOM ON WEHTHER OR NOT TO TAKE DRUGS. I am 15 years old.
Right now as I am typing this I am on one of my homestays for the weekend. I really need help. I have to get out of my situation before my mind is completely wrecked by the drugs. My parents arent thinking about letting me go soon.
I need to know these things. If someone can help me especially someone with a career in law:
1. As an American Citizen (and Passport Holder) do I have any rights? (I know where the embassy is).
2. How would I excersize these rights?
3. The Chinese way of imprisoning me and forcing me with drugs against my will… thats illegal in the US, … right?
I have thought about this situation for a long time. I finally decided that I have a future still ahead of me (and my grades are really good). I am willing to leave my family (and go to a foster one) if that would allow me to escape this imprisonment.
Please hear my story. I heard about this site and I guess were gonna see if it works.
Mark
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