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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.

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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.

 

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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.




You Teach People How to Treat You 10/08/2011
By Patricia Lefave, Monophrenic  Mental illness pros like to say that a lot from their blind spot. Most of them don't know they have this blind spot but many of us now are doing our best to shine a light on it for them. Labelled people don't “teach people how to treat us.” Psychiatrists doing the labelling, and all who blindly ... More>
 
The Miracle of Reproduction 07/02/2011
Did you know that the instant sperm fertilizes the human ovum that both donor and receiver instantaneously become saints who can do no wrong? Isn't that wonderful? After that, the only wrong doer is the one produced by the two saints, who suggests that anything is amiss in seeing the two saints as less than saintly. It is a form of ... More>
 
Clover's Story 03/10/2011
Collapsing from not being loved, I was committed to psychiatry and labeled schizophrenic. Arms stuffed into a straitjacket in intense pain. Released, my arms dropped dead weights to my sides. In intense pain, arm movement returned in a week. No gangrene. The dead skin peeled. Subjected to electric shock, just as after any ... More>
 
Authoritarian Controls 02/10/2011
An e-mail answer to a friend  This is part of a response to a psychiatrically labelled friend's writing about the “Authoritarian” which was written by him while he was in an altered state.  As is true for most people who are breaking down/through, often  under enormous pressure, many of exactly the same concepts and relationship problems ... More>
 
John -Psychiatric Prisoner 11/27/2010
 

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• Mel O'Dea, Psychiatric Survivour, Ireland
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THE  CHURCH  OF

SCHIZOPHRENIA

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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Although some of the CCHR/Scientology videos against psychiatry and its practices ring true in parts, I think this organization has some problems of its own so I present the opposing viewpoint here as well. 

Refund and Reparation


Lecture: Handling Psychotics


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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A Little Help from Our David Suzuki


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