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Tag: Freedom
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Snakes and Ladders: How Psychiatry Took Away My Choices
Jill M. Talbot
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July 1, 2020
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The psychiatric system takes away all choices and freedom and calls the resulting state "mental illness." Psychiatry justifies alienation rather than repairing it.
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