Unsurprisingly, marginalized communities got the brunt of misdiagnoses and punishing treatments.
That’s what happened when June and Jennifer Gibbons were sent to an intense psychiatric hospital for 11 years.
Mental health care facilities are vital, but they’re not set up to be helpful to everyone.
Doctors need to reevaluate their usefulness for each individual under their care periodically.
“I did a year’s worth of extensive research myself and Tamara [Lawrance].
Every department had to read the book,” she explained.
“Everybody was very in tune with research for about a year, and then we made it.”
Throughout history, countless people from marginalized communities have had their stories silenced by their oppressors.
It’s not just a problem in the past society still has a long way to go.
That’s an incredible injustice that was done to them."
Our film dives deep into that."
“The Silent Twins” is now playing in theaters.
