The Ward and the Vanishing ‘I’: How Psychiatric Wards Silence Testimony

Editor’s note: first published on Mad in South Asia 24th July 2026 The Ward and the Vanishing ‘I’: How Psychiatric Wards Silence Testimony This essay critiques psychiatric wards for silencing patient testimony, reducing people to diagnoses, and privileging control over understanding, arguing instead for relational, culturally sensitive care that restores personhood, meaning, and agency. There […]…