Belgium - Nadia Mahjoub Continues Brenda Froyen's Legacy Through Letters from Lived Experience

Belgium - Nadia Mahjoub Continues Brenda Froyen's Legacy Through Letters from Lived Experience On January 7, 2026, PsychoseNet.be published the second letter from Nadia Mahjoub to Brenda Froyen, the Belgian author, Dutch lecturer, and human rights activist who passed in October 2024 after surviving multiple psychoses, restraints, and isolations Nadia, founder of NADA (Netwerk Alternatieven voor Dwang en Afzondering) and UilenSpiegel vzw communicator, shares her recent psychosis: denied timely voluntary admission due to waitlists, leading to forced hospitalization. Despite progress against fixation, hours in an isolation cell normalized trauma, echoing Brenda's fight for humane crisis care Through raw lived experience, Nadia honors Brenda's barricade-stand against systemic failures, vowing to run NADA's marathon for coercion-free alternatives. Her vulnerability reveals the marathon of advocacy amid personal relapse