“Nobody deserves to be abused.” When and why that sentence is not helpful.

Georgia NeSmith
3 min readFeb 20, 2020
Photo by Sydney Sims on Unsplash

“Nobody deserves to be abused.”

A psychiatric nurse taking down information on me for admission to the psychiatric wing of a hospital said that to me. It’s not the first time people have said it, thinking they were being supportive. But it isn’t supportive at all.

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Georgia NeSmith

Retired professor, feminist, writer, photographer, activist, grandmother of 5, overall Wise Woman. Phd UIA School of Journalism & Mass Communication, 1994.