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In 2016, twelve of the largest mental health institutions entered into an agreement to stop seclusion, the forced solitary confinement of patients in a separate room, by 2020. Most of these organizations still segregate people every day. According to new figures from the Health and Youth Inspectorate, seclusion has even increased sharply. But how reliable are those figures? Patients and relatives of the Clinic and the Intensive Treatment Center talk about the traumas that sometimes caused months of solitary confinement. Is dignified care compatible with solitary confinement?