TAW122

TAW122

Emissary of the right to die.
Aug 30, 2018
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I just found a very well written and thorough thread/article about therapy pushers and the weaponization of psychiatry by the government (the State) as well as advocates (pro-lifers and pro-sufferers alike) that not only violate bodily autonomy, freedom of choice, the right to die (on one's own terms), and other blatant human rights violations, all in the name of safety, help, and care. I felt like this is a similar topic that I have written in the past before, but I figured that I share this thread since it really hits the most important points about the anti-choice, pro-life/pro-suffering society that continues to evermore become more dystopic and draconian day by day.

Here is the link to it and below that, is the quoted article:



Mental illness and suicide rates have been skyrocketing in spite of, and I would argue partly because of, people telling people the wrong causes of or solutions to their problems. A therapist, other than in specific cases, like getting an objective outside look on a relationship (where all parties are paying equally) or using highly skilled trauma healing techniques (e.g. EMDR), is basically a paid confidant who tells you about breathing exercises sometimes.
I used to have lots of different therapists across the country and most were useless if not actively detrimental. Therapy, even in the uncontrolled studies people tend to use for it, is way less effective than people think for mental health conditions. (I usually see like 30% effectiveness unless you get a specialist, which is hard to get and expensive.)
They also are coerced to perpetuate the quackery of sending their patient off for involuntary commitment/treatment if they get a patient they deem too difficult (suicidal or homicidal). There is no evidence to support this practice and it is very cruel; medical, legal, financial, mental, and sexual abuse are the norm, and the doctors do not, and cannot, know what they are doing. It has been proven they can't even tell the difference between well and unwell people in there because everyone is being so actively traumatized. There is plenty of research on this topic; it only continues for doctors and pharmaceutical companies to profit off the abuse of people while they at too low of a point to fight back, at the behest of the government.
Psychiatry is sometimes useful, but normally it is a doctor who spends barely any time with you before labeling you and prescribing you a pill, especially in the United States. There is a huge crisis of overprescibing these pills and even electroconvulsive "treatments," especially to women. Rather than only prescribing pills in acute cases for a set period of time, people can come in having been depressed for two weeks and get a prescription. (Depression only has to last two weeks while many other diagnoses take 6 months or lifelong evidence; I fully believe this is because depression is so profitable, and people want the pain to end.)
Many people who get them do not need them and they can have serious and debilitating side effects. Doctors do not always fully warn their patients of these issues, like sexual dysfunction, suicidal ideation, memory loss, and withdrawals for potentially months or years when the person wants to go off. They are often prescribed because it keeps you coming back to the psychiatrist, and if they don't work they try another one on you or increase the dose. Research also shows psychiatrists choose pills for their patients far more often than they would for themselves in the same situations.
Most people also do not know that government organizations don't run clinical trials. Pharmaceutical companies do. They often choose methods and measurements to obscure bad results or side effects, even to the point of making an ineffective drug look effective by p-hacking for example.
People have been spending less than half the amount of time socializing with friends as they used to, and community bonds are faltering as people move way more and many haven't replaced churchgoing as religion declines. Rather than doing the hard work of establishing trusting communities and loyal friendships, people tell you to get a paid friend and numb yourself with pills you likely don't need.
It's advanced gaslighting: you are miserable because you are crazy, because there is something fundamentally wrong with you. For many people, telling friends their problems risks getting them accused of trauma dumping because only a therapist should have to hear that. One time someone I thought was my friend told me I should pay him while I was opening up because he was "acting as a therapist."
People now believe that emotional vulnerability is something you should be paid to witness, rather than a fundamental part of building bonds. Turning everything, even suffering, into a moneymaking machine is disturbing and I only see it getting worse.



Anyways, I have to say that the issues presented in this thread are important ones and quite a few are the same/similar ones that we are facing and experiencing. Of course, there is no surprise that pro-lifers and pro-sufferers come to defend the horrific and cruel practices of the mental health and psychiatric industry. Also, there are comments in the thread that refute and push back some of the pro-life garbage that is being spewed in the thread. Finally, I believe that the thread also highlights the problems that exist in a capitalistic society as a whole, on a macro level.
 
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Damn good find.
 
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