Mission Statement :

This website has been created with three specific goals in mind.

A. To offer explanation, encouragement and psycho spiritual support to the psychiatrized and all others bent or broken by systemic dysfunction.

B. To help to awaken the mental illness industry to some very old, yet still resisted, truths.

C. To take back the right to speak in the first person about my experience and to offer ideas and practical help to others trying to do the same.

About Me

If you decide to read this Site, you will find that I am approaching this problem of the psychiatrization of human beings from basically four different perspectives on it.

They are:

A.      From that of a former aid who was employed to work one to one with ‘clients’ inside a psychiatric hospital, through a health care agency.     

B.      As a member (in long standing) of various dysfunctional groups and from within a variety of dysfunctional relationships.

C.      As a targeted person ‘chosen’ for 'covert' assessment who has now had first hand experience of psychosis (‘decompensation’) and experienced  real, long term re-integration and recovery while being drug free since 1997. 

D.     As someone who has found out a great deal about what is going on in psychiatry in general and with the relationship with it in particular, as well as with whole communities which they now involve in ‘saving’ people, like it or not, who are all very much like me.                                                   

 I do hope this Website offers you some of the understanding you may be looking for. I also hope that it helps to make the experience from the ‘patient’ point of view, a view long suppressed, ignored, and psychiatrized, become a better understood REALITY for the reader, especially those readers like mental illness pros, friends and family who really don’t understand it now.

It is not so ‘complex’ that it cannot be understood if you take the time to look and listen. Very often, it is only made to appear ‘complex’ as a smokescreen used to conceal the perfectly obvious. It is too often the obvious that is not seen.

Paradoxically then, this site is about reframing ‘reality’ in more realistic terms.

Patricia Lefave
Psychiatrically Labelled  D.D. (P)
Canada
E Mail: Patricia@SPAMAWAYCounterPsych.com

Remove the word "SPAMAWAY" and close the space

The most powerful thing you can do to sustain dysfunctional group behaviour is agree to cover it all up. It is the illusion of secrecy that does  the most to enable it and to ensure its continuance, generation after generation.

Reductionism: A Social Sickness

Reducing other human beings to the level of objects so you can justify experimenting with them is a ‘sickness’ of its own. Silencing that ‘object’ so 'it' can’t complain about your behaviour makes you even more ‘sick’. I doubt though that your brain chemistry is different to that of any other dysfunctional human being.

Convoluted Intelligence

Many otherwise intelligent people believe that to see things in convoluted complex  and mysterious ways are signs of a superior mind.
In fact, it is most often signs of a dysfunctional mind. Dysfunctional minds like to make things hard to grasp so they can hide the truth in the maze of chaos and confusion.

Theoretical Physicists

Here is a question for you.
What if Jesus was a time traveller who had to go back in time to interrupt the flow of a past event to keep what was HIS own future (the present to him) from disappearing completely?

(I'm the whack job so humour me...)


see related article entitled "Interpretations of Madness'
on the "Thinking Outside the Psych Box" page