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Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by the individual writers on Rants, Raves, and Resources do not necessarily represent those of the Site Owner. This page is dedicated to the free expression of personal experience within the parameters of my Mission Statement. This page is to be taken as the opinions of others, many of them based on each ones personal experience. It is not recommended by me to be taken as advice, or direction, on whch anyone should act without questioning the content. If you make the choice to act on the opinions of others, please proceed with the utmost of caution and be prepared to accept responsibility for your own actions.
I repeat again; I am NOT a medical professional or mental health expert. I am an ex mental patient and psychiatric survivour, one who believes also from experience that 'bio-psych' is the wrong way to go.
You See, the Mental Illness System KNOWS What it Causes Even While it is Causing it. They just see it as a 'lesser' of 'Two Evils.'
PSEUDOPATIENTS AND THEIR SETTINGS
(From On Being Sane in Insane Places by David Rosenhan, M.D.)
The eight pseudo patients were a varied group. One was a psychology graduate student in his 20’s. The remaining seven were older and “established.” Among them were three psychologists, a pediatrician, a psychiatrist, a painter, and a housewife. Three pseudo patients were women, five were men. All of them employed pseudonyms, lest their alleged diagnoses embarrass them later.
Restated by Me: When you real name is connected to a psychiatric label, it is going to be 'embarrassing' at the very least. You and I know of course that it is going to be a whole lot MORE than just 'embarrassing. it is going to change your life forever.
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An Experienced First Person Perspective
By, and For, the Psychiatrized
This page is, as it suggests, is for the participation of the Dissatisfied Psychiatric Survivor and is for the purposes of venting, offering alternatives/ideas that seemed to work for the individual writer who is contributing, and any resources on line or otherwise, that he or she found helpful.
Individuals may contribute their own work to this page no more than two or three times a year, so if you have a lot to say, make it a long post. The reason for this limitation is that I do not want to end up editing an online newspaper while ignoring my own work on the website for which I created it in the first place.
To post here, you are required to register your e-mail to my site. You do not need to accept a newsletter or involve yourself in the CounterPsych Forum when you do, although you can if you want to do so, and you can also refuse delivery of any mail when you register. I require this for identification purposes only as it tends to keep the harassers away if they think they are known.
All writing must be submitted to me in it's final form, along with your name and e-mail address. I will not accept it for posting here unless the following conditions are met:
1. No foul language, cursing etc.
2, Do not name specifically your psychiatrist(s) or the institutions in which you were incarcerated. I am taking care of my, and your, liability problems by keeping the names out.
3. Do not suggest any form of violence against self or others, including threats of suicide and/or murder.
I reserve the right to refuse to post any submission, without reasons given, other than that this is my website and I will keep it directed in the way I want it to go.
If the above conditions are met, I will do nothing more than run a spell check through it, so be sure it is in the form you want it to be in before you send it. You may request to have your own essay/post accepted and/or removed at any time by notifying me at:
Patricia-CounterpsychSPAMAWAY@live.ca
Patricia@SPAMAWAYCounterPsych.com
(In both cases remove the word SPAMAWAY and close the space.)
This is a PUBLIC Page so please keep that in mind at all times and be aware that you can use this space to help, or to harm, yourself and all other psychiatrized persons, depending upon what you say, and HOW you say it, so speak from the wisdom of your own personal experience as best you can and help to change the world for the better.
Disclaimer:
The opinions, experiences and feelings expressed by the writers contributing to this page of my Website, are his or her own, and do not necessarily reflect my own experience, opinions or feelings. Though I am very often in agreement with many of the ideas of other psychiatrized persons, that is not always the case just as it is not always the case with 'experts' or the yet to BE psychiatrized, who just may sometimes now be working as professionals in the mental illness system.
(Just as has been said about me from four feet away, "you never know "...)
That stated, this page is for the purpose defined by its own name.
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Inmates Running the Asylum
The ‘diagnosed’ delusional are now using their faulty perceptions to assess and evaluate the perceived delusions of those they have defined as delusional. If the delusional ones they are assessing object to this, the delusional assessors just know, that this is because the ones being assessed, are the non compliant delusional type, unlike the better compliant, delusional ones who are doing the assessing.
This is how it feels to us to be in the all knowing psychiatrist’s professional care. These are the kind of conversations we have with them which they do not see as a problem. We often look confused until at least the time we become able to see the whole tautology. Until then though (and even after) our ‘confusion’ is ‘interpreted’ by the great doctors as another sign or symptom confirming their diagnosis.
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| Future Madness Prevention? |
04/15/2010 |
By James A Kulacz, veteran
Who $aid morality had anything to do with the $edation of children, or for that matter, adult$? Morality is for prie$t$ and religiou$, not for the di$pa$$ionate men of $cience like most p$ychiatri$ts and p$ychologi$t$, who are only trying to improve the human condition.
A$ any good p$ychiatri$t will tell you, it i$ not about the money they or li$encing board member$ receive from the pharmaceutical indu$try, it i$ about en$uring the be$t $tandard of care available in the world, whether for our children on Ritalin or our $enior$ on a whole handful of $tuff, or our veteran$ on drug$ to quell the demon$ of warfare.
MD$ never become p$ychiatri$ts for the money, it is about caring for their fellow$ and their oath "Fir$t, do no harm (when you ca$h big pharma'$ cheque$)."
And with the new “P$ycho$i$ Ri$k $yndrome” propo$ed for the new diagno$tic manual, there is an even greater chance to help tho$e who “may” in the future $uffer from p$ycho$i$. Dr. Allen Frances MD, former chair of the DSM IV task force, writing in Psychology Today, thinks the real error rate will be from 70-90%. In other word$, a$ many as nine of ten of tho$e diagno$ed will actually receive big pharma’$ medication$ when they don’t need them, followed by a lifetime of health problem$ cau$ed by tho$e medication$.
And if the hi$tory of child p$ychiatry i$ followed, the$e initial diagno$e$ won’t be made by highly skilled p$ychiatri$t$ and p$ychologi$ts; they will be made by teacher$, $ocial worker$, and parent$ watching big pharma television adverti$ing aimed at them.
Follow the bouncing “$s.”
Jame$:
$urvived forced medication, despite a de$troyed thyroid, damaged kidney$, and nearly being Ta$ered (which as a $uffer of epilep$y would likely have been fatal.) But hey, the $hortening of my life$pan and de$truction of my $leep pattern$ from too much $eroquel, lithium and MAOI’$ wa$ for my own good (not the good of the VA p$ychatri$t$ who take $peaking fee$ and “perk$” from big pharma, or of big pharma $elling $eroquel to the VA at $10 a tablet for my “benefit.”)
Psychosis Risk Syndrome by Allen Frances MD, professor emeritus at Duke, former chair of the DSM-IV task force, date Mar 18, 2010. The exact quote from the on-line version of Psychology Today is:
What would be the misidentification rate once the diagnosis became official and was applied in the real world? No one can say for sure, but two thirds is certainly a lower limit of misidentification. There are several reasons to believe that the ratio of wrong diagnoses would actually be much higher: 1)the raters in general practice would be much less expert than specialists in research clinics; 2) the "patients" would be closer to normal and harder to discriminate; and, 3)drug company marketing would influence parents and clinicians to be especially alert to any strangeness in teenagers. It has been estimated that the false positive rate would jump from about 70 percent in specialty clinics to about 90 percent in general practice. This means that as many as an astounding nine in ten individuals identified as "risk syndrome" would not really be at risk for developing psychosis.:
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ORGANIZATION GUIDE
INTRODUCTION
When people go to a church and start talking in tongues, they don't have any idea what they are saying and neither does anyone else. However, such behavior and other bizarre acts as talking to and seeing Angels that no one else can see or hear is both acceptable and desirable within a religious setting.
Should someone have similar experiences outside of a religious setting, however, they could easily be called schizophrenic and locked away indefinitely.
The key difference is in the write up or the nomenclature used to describe the experience. While humans have had access to alternative states of consciousness for countless thousands of years, it is only in relatively recent times that scientists have sought to limit the ability of humans to experience other states of awareness by specifying what they feel is normal and what is not and by setting up an enforcement system backed by the force of law to hunt down people whose state of consciousness they disagree with and lock them away.
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