Posted by Christ_empowered on December 27, 2013, at 18:48:04
...by stigma? Probably more common that one might think.
I can't get a job around here, because I was crazy and because HIPPAA violations ruined my reputation in a small, southern town (FYI: only take a shrink to the medical board if you're prepared to suffer).
I don't doubt that meds help some people, some of the time. They certainly help me stay lucid and stay out of a mental hospital, which is about all one can really ask for.
But you don't need psychiatrists for meds. Psychiatrists seem to exist to keep people in line. They deal in what Szasz calls "cruel compassion." They keep people in (again, stealing from Szasz) "psychiatric slavery."
So, I'm stuck. I have my respectable people behind me. That makes a lot of people around here angry. Part of "psychiatric slavery" is that you're either: a) dead eyed and working a low-wage job, living in poverty and drugged on high doses of Haldol (preferably by injection), or you're b) in a mental hospital. Those are your options.
I'm apparently "uppity" simply because I live decently.
Just thinking out loud. I used to think my problem was with psych meds, but that's not it. Some people benefit, at least for a while, and that's great. Its ***psychiatry***, the dogmatic belief system masquerading as medicine, that really, really bothers me.
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