I'm a white, male psychiatrist, stuck in the 1970's. I think every emotion is a mental health problem, caused by a brain chemical imbalance. This is only our second appointment. Using little information, I'm diagnosing you as 'crazy.' Here's a prescription for several brain-disabling drugs. You're now locked into a life-time diagnosis, needing life-time treatment. Meanwhile, I'll get life-time payments: either from you or from your health insurance."
I'll never get questioned by anyone. And, if the scam is found out, I've got peers and attorneys to cover it up."
"The shame...is on
you."
Produced by a Berkely-based, antipsychiatry
group.
of "Mental Illness". An "In a Nutshell" presentation ;-)
Questioning the premises of Psychiatry? Here are a few good books and some free information to strengthen your knowledge base and help you move toward a myth-free autonomy.
. From India, a primer on the importance of the brain and why psychiatrists are charlatans for running electricity through it.
Al Siebert, Ph.D. tells what in his view is most wrong with the psychiatric response to "schizophrenia."
A compilation of . My sublist of .
New STUPENDOUS site. Max Fink, bite your electrodes!
May 2, 2000. .
doesn't think people with psychiatric labels should have full citizen rights, or that their experience and stories should have any influence on public policy, or she would not hesitate to meet personally with the above-reported delegation. Psychiatric abuse and its insitutionalized disregard of basic human rights flourishes, and will continue to flourish with her as a prominent spokesperson for our "mental health." , and must accept input from those who have survived it and very well know its inadequacies. She could be First Lady soon, and we be stuck with her for eight more years. I don't like that prospect, but wouldn't wish a President George W. Bush on anyone, knowing his lack of concern over disability rights. Psych labels last a lifetime and so do the discrimination and fear whipped up by media exaggeration of a few instances of violence by those "with a history of mental illness." Such "diagnoses" and their effects persist long beyond the time the person is "over it" and no longer "mentally ill," and are often preposterous, inaccurate and applied out of context. Many who have been sucked or suckered into the psychiatric system acquire permanent psychological and neurological disabilities because of their "treatment." It is known that a high percentage of those with "schizophrenia" can completely recover, given the right sort of help [true help would exclude the long-term "treatment" by neurotoxic drugs and brain damaging electric shock which is the mainstay response of today's psychiatry to troubled or bothersome persons]. This is a recovery not possible with any other "severe disease." Of course the psychiatric/pharmaceutical cartel would have us believe those with psychiatrically defined disabilites can never fully recover, must be on drugs for life and are potentially all dangerous "psychos." Don't buy it. NAMI's, Tipper's, and lately now the Surgeon General's and the "Public Health Service's" sort of "credibility" is bought by phamaceutical company influence. A democracy requires policy be set by consensus of all, not just those who have means and power. Please, .
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