Mental Health Reform rebuts psychiatry’s claims that “do not accurately reflect” its position

From Mad in Ireland: Ireland’s leading mental health advocacy group has been compelled to rebut a letter sent by the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland (CPsychI) to lawmakers correcting what it deemed to be a series of inaccurate misrepresentations in relation to reform of the Mental Health Bill, currently underway. Mental Health Reform (MHR) issued a letter to Senators, seen by Mad in Ireland, which aims to counter the CPsychI claims that its advocacy campaign to seek amendments to the Mental Health Bill, is, according to the CPsychI, “misguided and inaccurate.”

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  1. First of all there is never any chance that forcing someone to take brain destroying poisons like antidepressants and antipsychotics and forcing them to undergo barbaric procedures like ECT is going to help them. This vague language they are using such as “likely to help” means nothing because they are harming people to begin with. It’s truly like we are living in 1984 with these people. They use doublespeak and are never able to admit the truth and stop lying to people. All of us deserve better than this. We deserve to actually be treated with care and compassion for once in our lives. We don’t deserve to be abused and given poisons or other “treatments” that will harm us. Respecting peoples constitutional and human rights is the bare minimum that we must demand from these societal institutions which have made it their mission to violate these rights as much as they possibly can.

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