bylaws which establish minimum separation distance (MSD)
There are particular bylaws which establish minimum separation distance (MSD), which prevent setting up of housing for psychiatric survivors. For example, municipalities in Ontario still enact bylaws for zoning, which restrict the housing for the psychiatric survivors (LeFrançois , Robert, and Geoffrey, p.225). Such enactments and law are likely to make psychiatric survivors feel not cared for and lack the reason for living in a society that cannot allow them to build a shelter to reside in. Such feelings and treatment can make some survivors suicidal, especially those who have no relatives to hold their backs, host, and support them. They feel like outcasts since society fails to treat them as ordinary people.
When there is emotional proximity between psychiatric survivors, that is not considered to be integration. Sometimes, psychiatric survivors are discouraged from relating amongst themselves. For instance, in patients who are in hospitals are usually denied permission to visit their friends in the ward the moment they are discharged (LeFrançois, Robert, and Geoffrey, p. 229). Restrictions such as these would make a survivor feel lonely and pile up staff they might have intended to share with their fellow survivors as a way of encouraging themselves. It may make lead to the survivors developing more psychological or even health problems. It also makes their existence in the community uncomfortable because they no longer feel at liberty to do what they want to do.
Some professional caregivers who follow up on the progress of psychiatric survivors in society might exercise social controls by restricting the survivors from running their own errands because maybe they feel they are still not in a good position to do that. They might also deny them permission to take part in various community activities or even go in social gatherings, which can affect how they associate with people in society.