This is all written to the best of my memory.
I worked, I had a life. But then I languished on disability for twenty-six years. Dystonia, kidney failure, possibly the hypothyroidism was my lot for serving as a drug whore for psychiatry. At least, my neurologist stated the dystonia was probably caused by the medications. You get worse and worse and so did my diagnosis. Psychiatry drives you insane and then calls you insane. They are drug-pushing criminals. I will always wonder whether I got worse because of me or because of damage to my brain?
For roughly two and a half years, I have worked at a homeless shelter in Ohio for women with children, mostly single women. I want to tell you about what I have witnessed in the way of psychiatric butchery.
The most daunting is what I have witnessed among the children. Children are being given psychiatric drugs at younger and younger ages, including powerful antipsychotics, and being “treated” for the abuse they receive in the harsh world of the homeless. Yet this is far more so for Black and biracial children. Most of the children I saw on the drugs were of color, especially African-American.
Who needs the Ku Klux Klan? We have psychiatrists!
I remember one mother there who would complain about not being able to beat her children while at the shelter. The woman would terrorize her children in the space they stayed in during the day. All her children would cower in fear whenever she turned toward them. She would shout raging words at her daughter until that little girl would back herself against the lockers and start crying in fear.
I got wind from another employee that this woman’s nine-year-old daughter was diagnosed with “bipolar.” One of the other employees told me she witnessed her feeding her daughter’s “medication” to her son whom she later claimed was “OCD.” A plethora of convenient titles to base drugging her children with psychiatric drugs.
The first day I saw her daughter was in the clothes pantry we used to grant free clothing to the clients. She just stood there as if frozen and could not speak. I asked another employee what was wrong and the response was “she’s mentally ill.” Never mind the fact that antipsychotics reduce conversation in their victims to statements of one word. There was no consideration of the fact that the drugs cause this effect. It was always assumed to be the child’s supposed “mental illness.”
I presume she was on antipsychotics due to the fact that this is what the “bipolar” now takes much of the time because lithium—which used to be the main treatment—destroys the kidneys. (Mine are at third stage and were at fourth due to eighteen years of taking lithium bicarbonate, which I was removed from after almost two decades in eight days). I also presume it was antipsychotics due to the fact that she couldn’t talk and seemed so lobotomized. Whatever it was, they made her indistinguishable from a street addict.
One day, I noticed she was doing rather well. She was talking to other children and seemed so much better. This is when her mother came through the entrance, and the first thing I remember her saying was “She needs her medicine.” About twenty minutes later, I rounded the desk and there was this little nine-year old girl with what I could only describe as saucer eyes, walking as if in flotation. I asked her if she was okay. She numbly stated “I’m fine.”
I was mortified. Though the mother was the one doing this directly, I suddenly realized that the true culprit was the psychiatrist who did this to this little girl. I cannot and will not ever understand why anyone in their right senses could even consider the possibility of feeding a child neurotoxins before their brain is developed. The psychiatrists are standing there like monsters in a fairy tale with open arms waiting for abusive and unsuspecting parents to hand their children over to them to be assaulted with brain-damaging drugs. Yet they laude legal poisons that make the side effects of street drugs look like candy bars. Take Adderall, for instance—no one in our society would ever consider shooting a child up with heroin or shoving methamphetamines down their throats to “heal” them, but Adderall is just the brand name for amphetamines.
I lay in bed later on, thinking to myself of my brief foray into corrections work. As a corrections officer trainee for two days, I was being trained by a fellow officer. We were guarding a man in isolation to protect him from the other prisoners. The man had harmed children. He really just looked like a nondescript biker. I thought he must have looked like Santa Claus to the kids.
I thought to myself, “What would make him want to look like Santa Claus? And what would make a child psychiatrist want to look like a doctor?”
I witnessed a 24-year-old client that wanted to get off of the drugs. One year earlier, she had been able to hold down a job; now she kept ending up in the mental wards. She was standing at the desk one day and said to her mother that the drugs were killing her. She had diabetes and was being injected with Invega (paliperidone). She behaved as though she had akathisia—a common side effect of antipsychotic drugs. Pacing around the dorm while others were trying to sleep, using the word “kill” in her sentences. Crisis care was called and this was treated like it was a sign that she was psychotic, rather than a drug side-effect.
One day she came back, having difficulty walking and even breathing, totally drugged. She was so docile she was afraid to go to the lunchroom without her mother, a prime example of the destruction of drive and initiative on antipsychotics. Another day, she returned so agitated she attacked a police officer.
I asked her mother how she had come to this situation.
It seems she started serving the mental health industry at twelve years old when she suffered a trauma while in the foster care system.
She was African-American, of course.
I witnessed another child, a ten-year-old boy. His mother was forcing him to take Seroquel while he looked entirely exhausted and miserable. I witnessed another boy having his mother push Risperdal into his mouth in a dropper, as if it were cold medicine. I wonder if they knew these drugs increased estrogen levels to the point that internet sites have described some of their effects as chemical castration. Antipsychotics make people feel stupid, docile, and submissive by depleting their initiative and drive, making them feel fear, and the suppression of their natural aggression. This makes them manageable, easily controlled. They were referred to once as “chemical lobotomies” because effects similar to lobotomies could be achieved without cutting the brain apart. They create vegetables.
The excision of the soul.
The Escape
I’ll continue this article with the most compelling story concerning the nexus between my past and the lives of my clients.
She liked my hair. We stayed in the “observation” area of the mental ward. The only mental ward with such a place that I have ever stayed. It was where they kept those that were under the watchful eye of the staff. A small area with a few rooms, one of them with a mattress on the floor instead of a bed. It seemed they had run out of beds.
It was claustrophobic and smothering. Even drugged with the most potent neurological suppressants, one could still feel a hellish sense of being caged and unable to move. She wanted to brush my hair. At the first I found it a little endearing though somewhat invasive. Then, when she brushed my hair a second time, I noticed the languid, eerie, slow, jagged way she pulled the brush through my strands—as if being groomed by a rabid creature. It was so alien.
Around thirteen years later, on one of my first days working at the shelter, there she stood at the front desk. I do not think she ever consciously remembered me. She was so psychotic and mentally frayed I had little concern she would ever remember. She looked at me and said “I like your hair.” I wondered what I would have been like had I been subjected to the same path she had been. At the time she was being forced on drugs even there at the shelter. The mental ward staff would come in to give her “treatment”—in other words, make sure she took the pills.
The shelter is trapped between the non-profit cause and the mandates of the states. The cash cows of psychiatry are summoned by the mental wards who come onto our premises to capture their wards. I was told to go and tell her and another client to come to the desk. It was to get their daily assault by the goons in psychiatry. I questioned the request. I told the volunteer that if she wanted to get her medicine, she would come to the desk herself. I was sternly told that she “has” to come. I was furious and went back to the day space where the single women stayed and informed them that the mental facility had come to assault them with drugs. I think I also told them it was their choice to go. I like to think I did.
Later, when I discussed it with her, she told me that if she did not take them, they would force shots on her. I think she eventually escaped, though. The last I saw her she was mentally a mess but she was not staying at the shelter any longer. She was thrown out for bad behavior. With no address, she was free of them. There will never be any proof or knowledge how much the drugs harmed her and how much was her original psychological state. I remember one day before she left for good, her saying to me, “I’m a person.” I think she must have stopped taking them, because that phrase is unmistakably what almost anyone feels on escaping the drugs. My soul rejoices for her, but it is bittersweet.
One of my other clients said to me once “You don’t thrive on these.”
They know.
This must end. Regardless of the cause, neurotoxins do not heal organs. They exacerbate damage that exists and create that which does not yet. (I classify these drugs personally as neurotoxins because they poison the brain, though there is actually debate among scientists about whether they should be classified as such.)
What I love most about working at the shelter is having the opportunity to assist others in escaping psychiatry. I can speak with them of what I have experienced with drug side effects and possibly enlighten them to what may be going on in their own process with these drugs. But it is risky. I am proud to serve in the last bastion of their tentative safety. They have no address; the system has little legal access to them. The obvious reason coercive psychiatric laws are increasing with the homeless.
We need voluntary health centers that offer alternatives.
I submit this article to help create a better world.
Thanks for this.
I was lobotomized at a private for profit mental hospital. Not voluntary of course and I didn’t know what happened until years later. The shrink wanted me put in a homeless shelter. Thankfully my parents…their insurance was covering it…said no. And now years upon years later I’m haunted by that hospital their labels and the end of my life in mainstream society.
Thanks again.
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Thank you RW for sharing this story and putting the focus on this particular exploited sector of our population. The crime of our age isn’t violence-of which the professional managerial class has, over several decades, refined to a fine art, but vulnerability itself. And children, especially the most vulnerable children like those in the shelters you’ve depicted, are scarcely more than careerist fodder for further neoliberal exploitation and virtue hoarding gaslighting.
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I appreciate you writing this, and as someone who also worked in homeless services it was validating to read. I provided community based case management to individuals who were homeless or ‘at risk of homelessness’ who were recently hospitalized for mental health or were currently seeing outpatient psychiatry and therapy at my agency. My case management program’s goal was to find the individuals on my caseload permanent housing. Of course, it was next to impossible in a housing crisis, and the county I worked in was mostly rural, with only a handful of actual towns- three of them were very upscale, and just one was run-down enough where you could find landlords willing to take someone with no rental history and a section 8 (housing choice voucher) rental subsidy.
The saddest thing though, was how many psych meds so many of them were on, and the ones on the most medications tended to be the ones who were or had been ‘street homeless’ and who had endured multiple psychiatric inpatient commitments. I had people on three, four, fix, six different medications.
We were required to have regular supervision meetings with one of the agency psychiatrists, I assume just so we could bill at a higher rate as a clinical service with psychiatric supervision. I hated these meetings because all of the case managers in my program were supposed to bring up clinical concerns that the psychiatrist would address or advise us on…the only thing is, ‘clinical presentation/symptoms’ of the ‘mental illnesses’ of the people we worked with was the last thing any of us cared about. We cared about shelter placement, section 8 subsidy applications, application approvals, deadlines to find housing with the subsidy before you lose it, finding a rental apartment, the person’s income (or lack thereof), social security income applications, food stamps, probation officers; a mountain of real-world practical problems with being homeless and struggling with low income. So in these meetings we would sit in mostly silence and try to dredge up any information resembling something ‘clinical’ or ‘symptoms’ .
These people did not need psych meds. They needed PERMANENT, SAFE HOUSING – and not just a crummy, dirty, bug-infested apartment in a crime-ridden area of town, with a slumlord landlord who won’t even fix the broken toilet. They needed STABLE INCOME. If they were freaking out, having panic attacks, aggression, hearing voices, you name it, don’t we think this was more because they were in horrible, desperate circumstances, fighting a broken system that shut them down at every turn, rather than a “mental illness” ? Were their brains ‘diseased’ or was it perfectly understandable for them to have the emotional/behavioral struggles they had based on how they had been treated by everyone their whole lives, and how desperate and in crisis they were now?
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Your comment Katie poignantly reminds me of M Scott Peck’s book, “People of the Lie”. Though Pecks thesis went off the rails and failed to carry the analysis therein, he more than sufficiently conveyed ‘several’ essential characteristics of human evil in this world; several of which are evidenced in the people-of-the-lie-people purporting to be helping children in this essay…I felt it was necessary to point this out, because blaming bad systems or neoliberalism no longer suffices; these are just plain bad people exploiting bad systems for nothing more than the spoils that come from doing so… Ditto in HadEnough and so many other personal MIA stories…
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First off, I just want to point out RW is a hero in my eyes (or heroine as the case may be?). To go back into the breach once again, to right or at least mitigate the same kind of damage in others that psychiatry inflicted upon themselves, is, as they say, soul in action.
Moreover: I just wanted to amend my off base previous comment. I think the far more applicable example would have been Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil’, rather than the M Scott Peck’s People of the Lie example. Drugging children with antipsychotic’s while comprehensively ignoring the social detriments to their mental health, not only intact, but likely emboldened by dint of placing the significant social and interpersonal problems squarely on the vulnerable and malleable psyche’s of developmentally abandoned and abused children, is, by any definition, the banality of evil. And what really draws my ire is the way mental health professionals purport (ergo mouth) having addressed the ‘social detriments of mental health’ (of children)-through a crude form of behavioral fundamentalism masquerading as “diagnoses”, no less, by hurling drugs known to be both ineffective-beyond pretense effect-and rife with significant salient adverse side effects and dire long term consequences, which then are compulsively further prescribed when the desired effects fail God knows what whack-a-mole objective.
And has anyone noticed that, in all those books by mental health professionals- even few psychiatrists!-and neuro-scientist et al-who painstakingly demonstrate the myriad of known psycho-social and neurological impacts resulting from an abusive childhood, not one of them will utter word one about “all the ways” psychiatric drugs adversely and saliently impact the very ‘adverse conditioned child’ these mental health professionals “claim to be helping”-despite the overwhelming countervailing evidence!. I, for one, think its time to call this what it is: “the systemic psychiatric detriments” to emotional, mental, and social health. I also think multiple studies via task force, commissions, or wherever and whomever else, are in order to ‘begin’ looking into this “known systemic” health problem. Of course, I’m not holding my breath, however, for “PMC technician careerist” tend to comport themselves rather well in sick and exploitive systems.
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This is it.. We have the same thoughts.. It means we are not alone.. We can also assume that there are millions (or even billions) of people around the world who have the same thoughts.. This is a very important development.. So that means…We are becoming conscious.. 🙂
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Psychiatric drugs are chemical lobotomy. (The chemical version of the frontal lobotomy.) It not only causes brain damage, but also causes permanent mental illnesses due to brain damage. It also causes a lot of damage to the body. It causes various permanent and fatal diseases. People are harmed by psychiatric drugs and treatments, and even die. In healthcare systems, they attribute all of this to other things. (e.g. drug-related injuries and deaths).. People get injured, injured, (disabled, maimed, handicapped vs) and die for no reason.. All of this benefits the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries (and psychiatrists). This makes it easier for them to prescribe more toxic psychiatric medications to people. This is a sad situation..
How many tens/hundreds of millions of people worldwide are disabled (injured, maimed, handicapped vs) and killed by psychiatric treatments (especially psychiatric drugs)? Unknown.. Because drug-related deaths and injuries are hidden… Unfortunately…
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Psychiatric drugs are dangerous for every human being. And it kills. In this respect… Giving it to children (and the elderly) is actually a very serious crime. Namely… Giving children psychiatric medication is like putting a ‘chemical bullet’ into their brain. These chemical bullets accumulate over time and cause chemically induced brain damage very easily and quickly. (Chemical lobotomy).. Children can remain chemically ‘mentally ill’ (for the rest of their lives); (as long as they continue on psychiatric medication..) This makes it easier for psychiatrists to prescribe psychiatric medications to children; (a drug purchased and used every day means financial gain for the psychiatry and pharmaceutical sectors.)
As we said before… Psychiatric drug-induced chemical lobotomy causes brain damage and associated permanent mental illness in all humans. (Usually in the long term).. In children (and the elderly), this can happen more quickly.. The brains of children and the elderly are more sensitive than the brains of other adults.. Possibly… It is possible for them to be negatively affected more quickly by psychiatric medications.. The psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries (and psychiatrists) likely know this fact.. Keeping children ‘mentally ill’ allows their financial resources to increase.. The more drugs prescribed, the more financial gain..
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There is another fact about psychiatric drugs that no one knows.. These are happening. In homes and mental health units.. (It is particularly prominent in news brought to the agenda by mainstream media such as the BBC and the Guardian in the UK.) But these are attributed to other reasons. (Violence against mentally ill patients, etc.) This is a very different situation. But this possibility may also be possible…
Psychiatric medications can cause people, especially children and the elderly, to be ‘sexually abused’. Namely.. So.. Especially.. It can make it easier to ‘rape’ children and the elderly..
So how does it do this? It does this by numbing the brain.. Psychiatric medications have an effect similar to that of illegal street drugs.. It makes it numbs (anesthetize) and stuns the brain.. So.. Probably.. (some are exceptions) if someone rapes them, they can’t react to it.. They are raped but they do not realize it.. This is actually a very scary thing.. Just think about it…. Think of a disabled patient who doesn’t know what it is doing. A mentally disabled child, elderly or adult. If the patient who was raped is a ‘girl’, there is a high probability of her getting pregnant.. (Rapists may take medical precautions to prevent patients from getting pregnant, and may cover up the rape.) If they were raped anally and/or orally… It doesn’t matter if it’s a woman or a man.. If this situation is not revealed… Patients (especially children and the elderly) continue to be raped throughout their lives..
So, where can these terrible events occur? Probably.. This situation can often occur ‘secretly’ in psychiatric and mental hospitals, rehabilitation centres, nursing homes and other mental health units. It can also happen in family life (i.e. in homes).
These are not things that will not happen. If psychiatric medications have a numbing effect on the brain, these may also be possibilities. We have to think about these.. What if these things are really happening?
Psychiatrists and anyone else who knows that psychiatric drugs have a numbing effect on the brain can abuse patients in this way (especially sexual abuse). He can rape patients. He can easily hide evidence and cover up rapes. (What is happening in mental hospitals, nursing homes and care homes in England shows us that these things can happen.) So, what is the situation in the rest of the world?Unknown..How many millions of innocent people were harmed? She/he was raped, unknown..
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Think about it for once… Psychiatric medications have been on the market for decades. They put psychiatric drugs on the market saying they ‘treat mental illnesses!’.. Then it turned out that this was not true.
World-renowned researchers (such as honest psychiatrists, doctors, writers, journalists, etc.) such as Robert Whittake, David Healy, Peter Breggin, Peter C. Gøtzsche, have revealed that this is not true. So… They found that psychiatric drugs do not cure mental illnesses, but rather create them (cause mental illness). They have proven that people suffer physical and mental damage from these psychiatric drugs. They revealed that there were people dying (and even being killed). They found that psychiatric drugs caused violence, murder and suicide. Despite these facts, psychiatric drugs are still on the market… Despite the fact that they cause great harm to people and even kill them, they are not being withdrawn from the market. They (people) are becoming disabled and dying in plain sight.. What a shame, isn’t it a sin?
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From this perspective.. In my opinion… Except for honest Psychiatrists… Almost all psychiatrists who prescribe psychiatric drugs are quacks (Charlatan). And unfortunately, they are psychopaths (because they hurt people); (Because they continue to prescribe medication even though they know about these harms..)
The sad thing is… They carry out the act of harming people ‘legally’. States give psychiatrists the ‘legal’ authority to do this, in the name of ‘mental health treatment’. This is a very sad and dangerous situation indeed. Therefore… Mental illnesses are not treated with psychiatric drugs. Psychiatric drugs do not treat mental health. On the contrary, they create mental illness. And they cause a lot of physical and mental harm, and even death. And they do…
What needs to be done… Psychiatry should be removed from medical schools. Psychiatric drugs should be banned.. Drug-free treatment methods should be introduced.. Psychiatrists and psychologists should serve as mental health doctors.. A ministry of ‘mental and soul (spiritual)’ health should be established.. Mental illnesses should be treated using drug-free treatment methods based on the concept of the soul.
There is no other solution. Because mental illness has been tried to be treated with drugs for centuries but without success. This is because the mind and mental illnesses are something that happens in the soul, not in the brain. The mind and mental illnesses are spiritual. Not in the brain. We must realize this fact now.
Sincerely. Y:E. (researcher blog writer (blogger))
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This is poverty and the state and psychiatrist response to poverty.
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Psychology and “Psychiatry [drive] you insane and then [call] you insane.” Indeed.
The ADHD drugs and antidepressants can create the “bipolar” symptoms. And the antipsychotics / neuroleptics can create the positive symptoms of “schizophrenia,” via anticholinergic toxidrome, and the negative symptoms, via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
“‘I’m a person.’ I think she must have stopped taking [the neurotoxins], because that phrase is unmistakably what almost anyone feels on escaping the drugs.”
Yes, I escaped by going through all the untruths about my real life, written into my psychiatrist’s medical records, while my former psychiatrist was describing my entire real life to be “a credible fictional story” in his medical records. Too crazy for me, highly delusional, former psychiatrist. Bye!
Thank you for sharing your story and experiences, RW.
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Thank you for choosing to help the most vulnerable people on earth: homeless children in the hands of psychiatrists.
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Elderly infirm patients (particularly women) in nursing homes also frequently suffer at the hands of psychiatrists employing chemical cocktails and ECT under the guise of “treatment.”
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I am a CNA, elderly caregiver and you are 100% correct Joel. I have seen them go into a coma from being over prescribed Xanax and no one talks about it. No accountability.
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It’s similar in Germany the historical birthplace of the witchhunts, nationalsocialism with his tool psychology/psychiatry. I was diagnosed and incascerated, I was abused by the asylum nurses with their dicks. They all mad fun over my body odor and now after I got free, I lay again in my same room, alone with the same problems or even worse gossip bullying. My health is down but I don’t take drugs. I was since childhood excluded for looking like a hermaphrodit/lesbian or ugly. The cruel normal people that called me retarded are now the same who manipulate, gaslight and stigmatize me as mentally ill.
I found the best explanations about what psychology is by Mary Daly Gyn/Ecology, or by Peter Lehmann and Kerstin Kempker “Der chemische Knebel”. Kate Millett and Valerie Solanas were also two women highly critical against psychology.
It’s just another patriarchal religion. I had a social worker who was a sonmother and bully from my school past. This woman has now breed sons and never changed. She is married to a psychologist. I dislike such traitor-women. They are racist, homophobic, classist, ableist and misogynists towards vulnerable women. I struggel with life, getting job, friends and partners just due to my apperance and those people that believe I am ill, or whatever bad. My head looks like mix between Georgi Kay and Jace Norman, but with frizzy damaged hair, receding hairline and big crooked nose with blackheads. I aged bad (30 but look older or like a young dude with different light and view).
What I am really sad about that I only survive in a room payed by welfare. I can’t go outside anymore, I can’t get friends and partner. And many people don’t want to help, they just say I am the problem.
I am lonely and alone in this life. I was born alone and unloved, and lived alone and unloved. My parents never where judged for procreating, they have disabilities and used alcohol. I suffer from fetal alcohol syndrom and morbus basedown/gravwa disease. No doctor in my environment cares. There is no progress, I maybe die here. I think every day at suicide. It’s like surviving on a sinking ship, but nobody cares, the others are only there to let you know that you should die. Life is a nightmare, I wished I was never born, and I hope there will be soon a movement from vulnerable women against this shitty Patrix, against all the breeders, the people that damage black, lesbian, poor, old or young women or damage female animals in slaughterhouses. We have nothing to lose if we are honest other than a boring lonely and painful life. We need to do the real Revolution. I want rEVEnge. We should get financial compensation lifelong. I want a house for myself, a nice woman that loves me and I want to see all the breeders burn. They are ou natural predators.
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I, too, witnessed similar destruction of people in mental health and long term care settings during my nursing career. Pills and injections are not usually the solution.
As an adult, my own son who has had impairments from birth was inappropriately medicated for years. Luckily he was able to titrate off those meds that were literally killing him. The field of psychiatry will not recover from this. Even in 100 years. Keep loud, keep strong!
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Too many people who need lawyers are given psychiatrists.
BANANAS
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“Who needs the Ku Klux Klan? We have psychiatrists!”
The privately owned public mental health hospital and a major industry where I live now serves the additional purpose of being a detention center for ICE. Likely that ‘illegal aliens’ represent a golden opportunity for the medical industrial complex to join forces again with state power to experiment on human lab rats lost down a fascist hole, indefinitely.
In the systemic abuse of power over others we call society, there are vulnerable groups and manufactured identities, as with people of color still under siege to the ‘white man’s burden’ or poor people so dispossessed as to become the ‘homeless problem’, who serve to deflect attention from the common ground we have with ‘others’, necessarily useful to divide-and-rule means scapegoating ‘enemies’ and requiring powers that (shouldn’t) be to intervene with more ‘solutions’ to ‘problems’ they’ve produced and profited from.
Like the patented poisons of the pharmafia. No wonder this organized crime against humanity, courtesy of robber baron Rockefeller, is out to make a killing by medicalizing and pathologizing the entire population, whether by an ever expanding DSM for ‘disorders’ or laying captive to that most vulnerable demographic of children to turn the next generation as soon as possible into lifelong junkies. That’s progress for you, turning the planet into one big psychiatric prison. Of course, I’m obviously showing symptoms of suffering ‘oppositional defiant disorder’ for saying this (freedom is a disease).
Before the madness of civilization comes to an end one way or another, the psychopaths at the peak of power, the .01% out to control the 99.99%, want to have us all lobotomized in the Borg. Thanks for shining your light on how to stay human, in solidarity with others like ourselves and resistance to rule wherever it preys upon us.
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
-Aldous Huxley
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There is some positive movement happening with Kennedy now running the health system….but dont hold your breath. We got to fight hard and find support with any ethical people left in the system to get these drug dealing jackals to stop their abuse. To get real systems in place so that children can get the emotional support and healing they need to live and grow happy.
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Thank you for sharing your work, and these stories. With silence, it is easy to dismiss a few voices. We need many voices.
I agree with your conclusion completely: “we need voluntary health centers that offer alternatives.”
We do indeed.
We need alternatives, and we need tapering clinics. And we need human kindness.
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