The state of the mental health industry

To be more specific, one person's take on the way mental health professionals reach for the pill-box.

It's on YouTube, I'm not going to link directly to it, but if you search 'Laura Delano' and 'Tucker Carlson', you'll find an interview I listened to with great interest, while doing some tasks, the other day. It's a long interview, over two hours, but chronicles Laura's journey from being habitually medicated, to not being medicated. She was Dx'd Bipolar, as well as some other things, I think. It seems as if the whole thing started with a depersonalisation/derealisation/dissociation kind of episode, you know, the kind of thing where you're staring in a mirror and suddenly nothing is real and it ain't you looking back at you? That kind of thing.

On a lot of meds from childhood, sectioned twice, if I'm not mistaken. Well, not 'sectioned', but threatened that 'you do it voluntarily, or you'll be volunteered'. That kind of thing. It was a good interview.

I am going to watch.

Isn't Tucker Carlson an anti-semitic nutjob*?

Laura Delano is probably okay though.

* I'm aware of the irony of calling someone that while having mental health issues myself

Far as I know, no one involved in that video is prejudiced against an entire class of people in the aggregate. As for 'nutjob', well, I guess that depends.

Just a reminder, however, that politics is outside of PF rules for content, I can't elaborate my response further without risking this crossing that line, plus I don't watch a whole lot of that channel. Let's just leave it at he's an interviewer, he's interviewing, and it's something that's of particular interest to the folks here in Anti-psych. I understand Tucker ain't for everyone, and thought twice about even posting it, but I thought the subject was more important, than the messenger. I'm not emphatically anti-psych, but I glommed onto the video title and found her interview to be a real eye-opener on how badly things can go wrong for a patient.