MENTAL ILLNESS, DOES EVERYBODY HAVE IT WRONG....

KINDNESSTHERAPY wrote:You can generally see a post that was written by a mental health professional etc. and a post that was written by somebody that has mental illness....

KINDNESSTHERAPY, the insensitivity that you are showing towards people with mental illness will not be tolerated.

Let's keep it clear that there is no one mental health diagnosis that is "worse" than another to be labeled with. Depression, schizophrenia, bipolar, ADHD, personality disorders etc. They all can cause significant distress in a person's life. The PERSON needs to be looked at here vs the disorder. How does that diagnosis affect the person. Some people diagnosed with depression might not be affected very much at all, while with others it may impact their life severely.

-Cheze2- You are taking my post with too much sensitivity, if you read my comments and persomal blog etc.. You will see that I am very protective of anybody with mental illness and a harsh critic of the mental health industry. You will notice that I am posting in the -Anti-Psych- section so that I do not upset sensitive human beings with mental illness etc. etc. etc....

Even though this is the anti-psychiatry forum, there are still people here who identify with having a mental illness, and they are welcome just like anyone else. Just because this is the anti-psych forum it does not give one free reign to say whatever they like. The forum rules still apply. If you have further questions feel free to PM me.

Copy_Cat wrote:
A generation ago, society had eccentrics. Now, thanks to the efforts of psychiatrists, we have people with “mental disorders” and the number of disorders grows each year. People who worry about state surveillance are labelled “Paranoid”, those who argue passionately against injustice and have a head full of facts and figures are “Deluded” and suffering from “Thought Disorder” and those full of dreams and visions of a better world are “Psychotic”.

Meanwhile, kids who prefer to explore their surroundings and chatter (as thousands of years of evolution prepared them to do) instead of sitting still listening to teachers are labelled as “suffering from ADHD” and drugged.

You are 100% correct, CopyCat. I always enjoy your wisdom and this is just a spot on, perfect summary of what psychiatry really is.

As for me, I think I'll give myself a new "diagnosis": Eccentric, Not Otherwise Specified.

-MaliAna- Your response to CopyCat is perfect, it shows that there are people out their who are still thinkers and not lemmings.....

Meanwhile, kids who prefer to explore their surroundings and chatter (as thousands of years of evolution prepared them to do) instead of sitting still listening to teachers are labelled as “suffering from ADHD” and drugged.

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Its outrageous the amount of kids being diagnosed with ADHD, for no reason at all except they are spirited, interested and may or maynot have learning difficulties.

I have personal experience as, my daughters thereapist (my daughter is with her grandparents and they take her to a therapist - she dosnt like going) tried to diagnose my daughter with ADHD, because she had learning difficulties, she underwent an interview and assessment from the university here and it indicated that she had ADHD, I strongly disagreed and was really angry at the therapist (another brainwashed psych. therapist! - not my choice of therapist) but couldn't say anything because my parents were there and it would 'cause trouble' if I did. But I silently disagreed as I know my daughters had some problems, shes been taken out of her environment into a new one, and had several other life prob's that had nothing to do with ADHD, but had caused her learning difficulties and the therapist actually said this as well.
Even reading books such as toxic psychiatry (which I read ages ago) etc. It is so horrible and sad that many kids are labeled and drugged and the amount of problems this causes them in their childhood and later on in their adult life.
I know as a survivor of psychiatry myself how hard it is, after being traumatised by lables, forced druging etc. but to a child this is devastating, especially when its society that makes theses rules, such as children have to sit and listen to a teacher and learn in one specific way insetad of being outdoors, questioning and exploring, or other alternative learning ways, this does not suit all children. And who says school suits all children anyway, its the same old same old if u don't fit into their rules then u are labeled as 'odd' or having 'mi'.

My definition of mental illness is abnormal neuralogic functioning that can be treated. Brain damage is something else, and having different ideas or thought-processes in and of itself isn't being ill. If we medicated everyone who thought differently our libraries would have far fewer books that's for sure.