When Alexis conceived her second child, she reasoned that autistic people should not have to enter pregnancy and birth worrying about being misunderstood, marginalised and traumatised.

Alexis sadly has experience of both being restrained and secluded, and describes various traumatising instances of seclusion in Unbroken . Ryan Gosling shrugs off Barbie Oscars drama with loving kiss from daughter and support from wife Eva Mendes.Title: Unbroken: Learning to Live Beyond Diagnosis (The Inspirational S Item Condition: used item in a good condition. Co-regulation is key; how can we expect a distressed person to calm down in a punitive environment where sirens signal the beginning of a traumatising event, almost every single day in some institutions?

The only real help I was given was one hour of speech and language therapy, one hour of psychotherapy and one hour of occupational therapy per week. The more people who are witness to your actions, the greater the likelihood that your stress levels will increase. In all the time I was in there I was restrained 97 times and put in and out of seclusion frequently – 17 times in total.

I told them what they had done to me was illegal, since I hadn’t been sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Individuals are powerless to resist restraint or seclusion once an alarm has been pressed and staff flock to the scene, unaware of what has transpired, and too scared and dysregulated themselves to give the distressed person the space and time to calm down on their own. With my anxiety at an all-time high, I seemed to become everything that the mental health professionals were saying I was.