Why should there be a
curb on the power of shrinks you might ask? Aren't they only interested in the
"health" of our psyches as the name would indicate? Psyche=soul
Iatros=physician, ergo a psychiatrist is a "doctor of the soul." But exactly
how much does your average shrink know of spiritual matters? I'll tell you:
Zip, zero, nothing at all. Removing the concept of soul from the
equation we have "mind" -- its workings supposed to derive entirely from the
chemical reactions taking place in the cell conglomerate which is our
brains.
Hence, all of the so-called mental
illnesses, in fact any form of mental distress, are presumed now to be
the result of brain diseases or "neurobiological brain disorders." Oddly, to
this date no biological marker has been credibly, certainly linked to
any common mental condition, (exemplified by a set of tagged
behaviors-turned-symptoms, lumped into that increasingly broad category termed
"mental disorder"). This doesn't stop your impeccably credentialed shrink from
filling you full of biological treatment -- multifarious dangerous drugs and
even wall-socket -- with no
real medical tests beforehand to assess the actual performance capabilities and
neurological condition of your brain and basing all this only on a highly
subjective and variable judgement of your behavior. Heck, bona fide and
scientific medical assessments might reveal for all to see the damage done
by biological psychiatry, when compared to the same tests given after
months or years of "treatment."
Only behavior
that is lawbreaking, that violates the rights of others to security in their
home, property or person, should be punished or warrant deprivation of liberty.
So segregating and confining, or forcing into a chemical straightjacket outside
of an institution as is the trend now and law in over 40 states, those who are
law-abiding but labeled as being or carrying "mental diseases," never
contagious, is not justifiable as a public health measure and is an egregious
suspension of human rights protections as well as being out of place in a
democracy. Forced drugging of those labeled with a mental disorder is not only
tolerated, but becoming acceptable public policy as the price of "liberty," or
required to receive other needed services, such as housing or vocational
rehabilitation.
To brand your biology as
inferior, "sick" and in need of pharmaceuticals or electric shock to the brain,
simply because you display mental distress or behavior short of lawbreaking
that annoys someone makes as much sense as blaming a poorly operating computer
when the fault is the program. Yet this is the whole point of medical
psychiatry. It wants to work with its crude tools on the computer of our
biological "machine," the brain, and completely ignore the programming. If you
believe the latest government pronouncements then you believe 22% of us have
defective brains (see
about our drug-promoting Surgeon General). I'd say
we've been leaving all the social programming to them and will regret
it. How ludicrous will they get before the public pulls the wool from off its
eyes?
Churches were once willing to address
the spiritual difficulties of their congregations, now they are too willing to
abrogate that responsibility and defer to the psycho-medical model, the view of
the mind of man as [an often broken] biological machine unable to ever assert
[or reassert] full control and assume responsibility for his actions. How
convenient for the profiteering promulgators of the
that this leaves millions doped, addicted, and
dependent for life on an increasingly powerful pharmaceutical industry, of
which biopsychiatry is essentially an arm, hoping for the next new magic bullet
that turns out to be no more magic than the last. While our chosen
rulers pay lip service to God, they ally themselves with those who
retrodiagnose the Son of God as mad, who would have "treated" Jesus and "sent
him back to his carpentry." I have met enough "Men of God" who shun those who
have been labeled by psychiatrists. They are second only to psychiatrists in
their hypocrisy and fraud.
I hope the
accounts and information in the pages to be developed here, and the
I've assembled over the last several years in my
in the meantime, will serve as a warning to those who
might want to believe there is something wrong with their biology because they
feel stress, severe sadness, or breaks from "reality." Seeking out
"professional help" is unlikely to help you at all, but instead to confirm you
in a role characterised by "powerful and pervasive stigma" (quote is the US
Surgeon General's). They'll leave you living shunned by friends, family and in
poverty, turn you into an extreme example of polypharmacy, an unbalanced result
of Medicine's misguided attempts to "balance" your chemicals, and leave you
with permanent neurological damage from a meddling with your biological
foundations carried out in carelessness and ignorance by MD's who are not real
doctors at all, but agents of social control. All this they will blame
on "the tragedy of mental illness" and maintain that the low standards of
mental health 'care' have nothing to do with a flock of unsatisfactory
outcomes and ruined lives.
You can collude
actively or by your inaction with those who circumvent the due process of law
in empowering pseudomedical diagnosticians to override human and civil rights
while not worrying on the future of freedom, a schizophrenic non sequitur if
there ever was one, or you can help to restore the rule of law by aiding
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of "Mental Illness." An "In a Nutshell" presentation ;-)
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Thomas J. Moore's
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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.
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. From India, a primer on the importance of the brain and why psychiatrists are charlatans for running electricity through it.
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Al Siebert, Ph.D. tells what in his view is most wrong with the psychiatric response to "schizophrenia."
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A compilation of . My sublist of .
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New STUPENDOUS site. Max Fink, bite your electrodes!
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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" without some big time 'behavior modification' on her end. , and accept the idea of self-determination and inclusion in policy discussions from those who have survived the system and very well know its inadequacies. BIG MONEY may make her First Lady soon, but this doesn't get her off the hook of responsibility to the people as a whole.
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." Being the quackery that it is, it shouldn't surprise anyone that years of psychiatric drugs produce mentally and neurologically maimed results. However, such torture has not, as the propaganda claims, and to my mind surprisingly, significantly increased the violence rate among those so "treated." Probably the opposite is true. Psychiatry/psychological "diagnoses" and their effects persist long beyond the time the person is recovered 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 support [true help would exclude the long-term "treatment" by neurotoxic drugs and brain damaging electric shock which is the mainstay response of today's mental health system to troubled or bothersome persons]. This is a recovery not possible with any other "severe disease." Of course the psychiatric/pharmaceutical cartel that Tipper is chummy with would have us believe those with psychiatrically defined disabilites can never fully recover, must be on drugs for life and are all potentially dangerous "psychos." Don't buy it. NAMI's, Tipper's, and lately now the Surgeon General's 'Public' Health Service's sort of 'credibility' is bought by phamaceutical company money and influence. A democracy requires policy be set by consensus of all, not just those who have means and power. Please, ; remind her we did not elect her to be a mere lackey and servant of the special interests.
After the psychiatric inmates were forced out of the asylums there was for some no alternative but to reside within the burgeoning system of nursing "homes." Regardless whether they've ever been ascertained to be "crazy" or not, most people in nursing homes are kept under control by the chemical straightjackets the psychopharmaceutical industry provides. Practices have carried over from the former state warehouses, which used to hold the senile that now go to nursing homes. True scientific medical evidence indicates that long-term psychiatric drug administration shrinks the brains of its "patients."
There is an empowering movement to free people from nursing homes and other institutions who can then live in real homes with a variety of care options that are cheaper than the all-too-often only available "option" of long-term "care." Click on the above banner for the opportunity to join that movement for liberty, freedom, and choice.
Enough of this abuse disguised as health
care!
STOP SHRINKS!!
Oh, for pete's
sake! You don't really expect us to warn you
of every annoying little
side-effect, do you?