Psychiatric Survivor

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1) First Lie of Psychiatry
The first lie of psychiatry is that you are not in prison, you are in a hospital.
The Talosians learned that humans have a “unique hatred of captivity” even when made as pleasant as possible, humans prefer death.
The “patient” is assumed guilty of being mentally ill and then drugged, opposite of the “Presumption of innocence”. Once drugged the “patient” is unable to fight his/her commitment, unable to fight for his/her rights through legal means. The intelligence drops, poor eyesight, weakness and nausea. Numerous “side effects” of the drugs keep the prisoner silent. I propose it is the “side effects” themselves, that the psychiatrist use to control their “patients” behaviour.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_torture#The_torture_process

For myself the first lie was confusing, as you got to agree with the boss man that it isn’t a prison, yet at the same time you know in your mind it is a prison. What are the rules? They know them and you don’t. I still don’t know the rules, and even if I knew them, the rules don’t mean shit if the guards(oops I mean hospital workers) don’t follow them. So it’s somewhat useless to know them whatever they are. The hospital workers will never admit to you, let alone themselves that they work in a prison, so you got to agree with the boss man that it is a hospital.
What made this doubly confusing for myself was the prison wasn’t a locked prison, when I first entered the psychiatric world. At the time of my entry (around 1985), there still was no locks on the doors of four east (the psych ward I know). They used excessive drugging and lack of clothing to prevent escapes. I had to be smart enough not to try to run, even though I wanted to, as the knowledge there is no where to run to, and the escape would not be successful. If I was not smart enough, more drugs or restraints would be used.
Today they have a locked door, due to a successful escape resulting in a physical death, I heard through the gossip mill.
Doctor: (voice raised) “We’ve argued about this before. You must believe you are mentally ill or we can’t help you.”
I do not know if the tradition of taking the prisoners… oops I mean patients clothing is still in effect, I do believe so. But last I was there I was waved the reward system of “giving” someone their own clothing for good behaviour, due to my past time served there. Story on taking a patients clothing. A history of mental illness and going to the ER story
Humiliation from the guards oops I mean nursing staff. To enforce their dominance over their flock they can and do use restraints on their subjects. Five point restraints is typical. Each appendage and the stomach. Restraint is the euphemism for tied up like a hog. Then what happens after an hour or two being tied up? The prisoner/patient has to urinate/pee/piss/void. But they are tied up. piss story
Judges are sentencing criminals to this ward as well for crimes like murder, so locked doors are a necessity for these co-prisoners, oops I mean co-patients. All mental patients are all friends to one another , like all black people know each other and are all brothers.
All hospital psychiatric wards have a box or hole to put the unruly prisoner… oops I mean patient. The one on four east is/was called the “pink” room. It consists of a bed bolted to the floor with four or five point restraints on the bed. Above the bed (the patient gets to see) on the ceiling is this round air vent that is the only source of entertainment or contemplation for the duration of your stay. To me it (made?)makes a magical pleasant kind of hissing sound and it became my friend such as Wilson soccer ball in the Tom Hanks film Cast Away. If you have a phobia about dirt or cleaning you’d be in trouble as you can clearly see an accumulation of dust and dirt on it. Mine is mild…I must clean that dust away…but wait.. is the dust Wilsons smiling face? Where would his face go? Did it ever exist?
The one good thing about the old ward was there was a pool table in the central area. Sure it was a worn out piece of crap, but it was something. No matter how drugged one was, you could still hold a stick and hit a ball. They took it out a few years after they got the locked doors installed. Reportedly due to some kind of incident. I don’t know the details, but you can imagine.
They have (had) a relatively small TV that’s either on maximum volume or not at all, and you still can’t hear it over the noise, or because its on maximum. The eternal struggle for the correct TV show goes on. If you have ever had a fight with just two people over the TV in your house imagine say ten people fighting over what show to watch. Yet another power struggle of fun. I imagine in criminal steel bar prisons with one TV it is similar.
The hardest thing about the ward is the boredom, and with the boredom (24 hour cement walls) the knowledge of the injustice of loss of freedom . The anger I had to make cold one, a logical one of hatred. Only now with experience I can know of a expected release date, as a young prisoner… I meant patient I had no idea how long I would be imprisoned , and the guards oops I mean hospital workers would, and did lie about when I would be getting out. When the lies were revealed as the days came and went, more hope was lost and the boss man became ever more powerful.
I learnt I am no longer a human being, but a defective object, for psychiatrists to fix.
When first admitted/jailed they dope the heck out of you, this can reduce you to a drooling moron. Over the many weeks as they reduce the amount of drugs, they tell you , you are getting better, your family tells you , you are getting better, when all it is , is they are reducing the drugging. The final outrage comes when they claim to have helped you after jailing and drugging you, and wish to take credit for your “recovery” and wish to be thanked for the torture/help they forced you to endure.
2) Second Lie of Psychiatry

The second lie of psychiatry is that the drugs and various treatments work to fix a chemical imbalance.
What the medication/drugs and treatment are for is to change YOU not a chemical imbalance. Your (non-physical) mind and soul are diseased and have to be controlled with mind altering drugs and medication, this will make you compliant and obedient to who ever is looking after your sorry ass.
They don’t like you and your behaviour. They took no brain scan or laboratory test to see what your brain chemical balance is/was. They disapprove of your behaviour and want it stopped.
I assume everyone reading this is a competent adult, if you are not competent you have dangerously escaped your masters protective watch, you must forget what you have read, leave and never come back to my site, or sites like this. Philip Dawdy of Furious Seasons wrote of malicious comments of evil people who intend to cause suffering or worse. My statement “they” don’t like you and your behaviour, is not intended to cause harm but tell the truth. I am not the one who called/labelled someone diseased and pushed drugs to change the person. The onus of responsibility ( to keep their puppet under control) is on the keepers of the puppet.
Fraud artists sell fake cures for illness, this started when people started using money. It still goes on today, many people looking for hope for a cure, find a fraudster and are swindled.
No chemical medication can give someone the intelligence, morals and the will to do the the correct thing.
Psychiatry has attempted and successfully classified the human condition as a medical condition that they can help with. Youtube link of British documentary
In days past, they might have been called vices, now they are mental illness that psychiatry has a cure for with a medication or a treatment.
The medications are to be taken for the rest of the patients/slaves life. Those chemical imbalances are sure hard to handle eh? No other illness like it.
Catch22, you are ill because we say you are ill.
Heads I win, tails you lose.

I have a secret for you, a large amout of medications they prescribe are habit forming. Shh don’t tell anyone. They use the euphemism “Do not stop treatment or change dose without medical supervision”. NOTE: when taking their medicine, you can’t use mankinds oldest medicine of alcohol. How many “mentally ill” might be/are alcoholics? Do you want them to stop drinking alcohol?
In the long term use, the medication damages the patient/slaves brain. The classic one is called tardive dyskinesia. “15 per cent of patients develop tardive dyskinesia within only three years”
For ethical reasons I have to tell you, if you are taking psychiatric drugs, and want to stop, do not suddenly stop taking them. The sudden change in brain chemistry may be too much stress for you.
when I quit, I quit suddenly and had a week or two of hell, rather than a year or whatever for withdrawal. To cope with the negative and positive (joke on psychiatric descriptive terms) symptoms of withdrawal, you should experiment, try anything legal to see if it works then use it appropriately.
I have on occasion forgotten what the drugs effects are and taken a single dose and then I remember.
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Of various treatments
Of various treatments, one would be ECT. I am opposed to it completely, as there are a multitude of better things to try first, but some are not legal. The actions of psychiatry that may create the potential ECT patient beforehand, is overlooked.
To lose ones memory, is to lose oneself and have just the fleshy part left alive. ECT is barbaric. Fortunately most recover from brain damaging ECT. What are the true facts? Only in certain places do they have to report ECT results to Government. Psychiatrist that perform the ECT also get to judge the results, really scientific there. No patients are truely given informed concent, as what can happen is unpredictable, what memories or motor function that will be lost is unknown. Maybe death?. Few can quit once the many series of shocks have started.
An alternative to brain damaging ECT is VNS or a derivative
www.ect.org Electroconvulsive Therapy Causes Permanent Amnesia and Cognitive Deficits
John Breeding ELECTROSHOCK
) Third Lie of Psychiatry

Dr. Walter Jackson Freeman performs lobotomy. In the United States, a major evaluation study called the Columbia-Greystone project was conducted in 1947 and failed to provide evidence of the positive effects of lobotomies. Many times, the evaluation was performed by the surgeons who did the work, without any kind of scientific controls. LINK
Today In China, Brain Surgery Is Pushed on the Mentally Ill By NICHOLAS ZAMISKA November 2, 2007
The third lie of Psychiatry is that Psychiatrists are doctors. We have established there is no lab test, or any brain scan, any blood test to diagnose mental illness. It is diagnosed through the patients behaviour.
Szasz writes If “mental illness” means brain disease, then it is not a disease of the mind and psychiatry would be absorbed into neurology and disappear. But this is patently not the case. Psychiatrists regularly occupy themselves with personal conduct of social interest, such as homosexuality, aggression, racism, suicide, and murder.
I think we all know of the Holy Bible and The Holy Qur’an, in them are rules for judging behaviour. I don’t know the Qur’an but in the Bible we have the ten commandments that both Jewish and Christian are supposed to follow.
For Psychiatrists they have the Holy DSM. With it they judge the patients sins and transgressions. No one has ever been cured of their mental illness, (youtube video)as they may be able to sin again.
That is all well and fine for a psychiatrist to do on his or her own, we all have the freedom to judge others, but when they have the authority to commit people to imprisonment and medicate people for their sins, it becomes wrong. It is a religion of legal drugs known as medication. If a person doesn’t want the drugs, they can be forced once deemed (judgement from the dealer) a danger to themselves or others and the drugs would “help” them. “Help” being whatever the psychiatrist thinks is correct. Some people do need help, I acknowledge, but who watches the psychiatrist? No one.
To lose ones liberty, the most precious thing a person can have, should be up to a jury, not one individual judge with their own morals and values.
What keeps it alive are many things. The inertia of having existed for some time. The power of position that is unquestionable. see “Bipolar depression of the third degree”.
The general publics need (to go to a psychiatrist first) for legal mind altering drugs/medicine keep it alive. The need for preventive justice, to control the misbehaviours (not illegal actions) of others. Szasz has written many books on the need for psychiatry.
Oh I nearly forgot, it is a BILLION dollar industry, who’s “science” of success is decided by itself and not its patients/slaves/victims/parishioner.
Have some sympathy for the psychiatrist, as false imprisonment,ECT and drugs is all he/she knows. The evidence of drugs efficacy to successfully fix a mind from “bad” to “good” speaks for itself.
Advice + Secrets for the Psychiatric Survivor
Advice and Secrets for the Psychiatric Survivor.
1)Most everything here will likely make you feel fear. Myself I could not take the constant feeling of fear when first discovering anti-psychiatry. If you feel fear, please go do something else until you feel better. Fear releases all kinds of natural chemicals like adrenaline and such, but these natural chemicals are not good for someone who has experienced psychiatry and may fear future psychiatric “help”.
2) Never ever, never ever, I repeat, get physically violent. Any proof (damage to object or person) or a witness to your violence will provide evidence that you are out of control and need to be “helped”. If you feel anger, angry or frustrated, leave the place you are and go somewhere else until you have mastered your anger/ the anger has passed away. This is called freedom, if you do not take the opportunity to leave an explosive situation, you might lose your freedom to criminal jail or psychiatric jail. I am sorry but even if you are in the right in a situation, if you have a history of “mental illness” you are at a severe disadvantage to your opponent the sane normal person. This is why all conflict has to be nonviolent or don’t have conflict