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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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By, and For, the Psychiatrized

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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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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.

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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.

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.

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 follow the authority of psychiatrists, without question or debate, teach people how to treat us. They are the ones who are now labelling children O.D.D. How odd!

When they do this, they set the tone for that child's whole life by telling other people that they should pretty much disregard anything he says, his protesting of the way he is treated by others, and his feelings about it. Most people will do as they are instructed to do too, and they will feel blameless as they do it. If the child is driven to the predictable end “game” (murder and/or suicide) all will blame his mental illness for the results, no doubt while lamenting, “oh...if only we could have seen it coming...”

The child of course, may have reached the point of “realization” that there was no way out. For O.D.D. like it's predecessor “schizophrenia,” the foundation stone upon which psychiatric labelling is built, it is it's own tautological argument created to justify its own existence. If the child so labelled and defined resists the diagnosis, or tries to fight against it, or to fight the authority that defines him and his life experience in such a way, the resistance to it will only “prove” the authority figure to be “correct.” The predictable reactions to such total invalidation have already been written in the book which defines them as “symptoms” which the psychiatrist has been trained to use for “diagnosis.” There is no better way to fulfil a prophecy than that used by the DSM which is inventing more and more diseases for inclusion all the time. How O.D.D. Isn't it?

Though the child may well be able to see this, since he is the one on the receiving end of the authority's control, most adults who blindly follow authority, will not see it. Such reversals of reality are often the case in dysfunctional families as well.

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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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