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One of the conditions of the Czech Republic joining the EU was that it stop using caged beds to restrain the mentally ill, but as one former patient explains, this has not yet happened. 'It is like a cage in a zoo. Like a small prison.' Thirty-year-old Michel Celetka described his week locked in a caged bed in a psychiatric clinic in Brno, his home town. The cage was one and half metres high and two metres long; covered by dense netting attached to metal bars, and padlocked at the top on one side. Michel felt 'confused and trapped' and was not allowed out to eat or use the toilet. 'I had to pee through the cage once because I could not hold it in. My mouth was so dry I even attempted to drink my own urine,' he told BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents. Michel was having a breakdown and was hallucinating. He had checked himself into the clinic, desperate for help.
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