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psychiatry and eugenics

Postby Devilock » Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:47 am

There has been allot written about the influence of the eugenics movement in modern day psychiatry.
I have been reading about it on www.madinamerica.com.

I personally feel that the eugenics movement has definitely influenced psychiatry and still does to this day, I find this outrageous and despicable.

ANy comments? Viewpoints on this?
I'll write more about it later just wanted to add this now as the forum seems to be suffereing from not very many posts at the moment.
I would also like to think that this is a place for discussion and I don't find that there is much discussion here lately....
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Re: psychiatry and eugenics

Postby Copy_Cat » Wed Aug 07, 2013 2:26 pm

I read this:

Eugenic Sterilization Laws

Paul Lombardo, University of Virginia

While some eugenicists privately supported practices such as euthanasia or even genocide, legally-mandated sterilization was the most radical policy supported by the American eugenics movement. A number of American physicians performed sterilizations even before the surgery was legally approved, though no reliable accounting of the practice exists prior to passage of sterilization laws.

Read more http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/essay8text.html

There seems to be much in common with todays forced chemical lobotamy movement, CTOs and assisted outpatient treatment...

Looks like the same sort of thinking is behind forced medication after reading the above article.
I survived psychiatry.
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Re: psychiatry and eugenics

Postby Devilock » Thu Aug 08, 2013 9:01 am

It is written in the above web page u provided copy cat that criminals also were sterilized , yet these day criminals are given more rights than those of the 'mentally ill'.
In my opinion, and my personal history of being forcebly drugged and that im apparently 'infertile' at the moment, due to invega injections for 9 months, this issue is close to home with me.
Mostly all of the old and new anti psychotics cause some kind of infertility issues (at least , for most ppl. *whilst they are on them*. I must research this further the amount of 'mi' ppl who have been caused 'infertility' (I notice ppl don't like to use to the word sterilized lately) due to anti psychotics.
Effects from these drugs such as breasts growing in boys, girls and milk leakage, amenhorea (the lack of periods) and sexual disfunction only serve to illustrate the actual effects of meds like these.
I'd like to think that I havnt been sterilized ( and I know last time I posted it it was met with some harsh remarks about how amenhorea ISNT sterilization) but I intend to go to a fertility clinic and check (if they can???) to see if I am still able to have babies. Yet I bet if one of you had not had a period for 2 years, even after a year of ceaseing the invegga, u might be a bit more open minded and angry about the fact that u probably have been sterilized. eg. u CANT get pregnant if u don't have periods, that's logical!
Also, do u think these drugs were seen as more appropriate for 'degeneratives' with so called mental illness *because* they had affects like stopping fertility, as we see in the influence of eugenics on modern day psychiatry, I think this point needs careful thinking about and questions like this need to be asked. Was it purposeful and useful that the drugs they developed also had these affects of stopping fertility because it has always been a collective conscience sort of agreement that mentally ill pplshould not have babies as they "cant look after them". Just some thoughts....
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Re: psychiatry and eugenics

Postby Razael » Thu Aug 08, 2013 9:32 am

I've thought a bit about the whole eugenics thing, it didn't seem to go anywhere and even the sexual side-effects seemed to be more and good side-effect that might make some egenisists or the psychiatrists think its not so much of a problem...when I am off antipsychotics to compared with when I am on them have a problem that I am not as self confident and don't even think about sex or when I see a girl when I am off antipsychotics I think about getting their attention and more confidence with myslef and feeling good about myslef...psychiatrist don't have anything to say about $#%^ like that coz they are too busy with a simple mind of making it out to be symptoms its discrimination at its worst and this treatmnet is inhuman...like what you can expect for anyone who having taken their liberty away from them...they don't care

sorry I been busy writing and have burnt out a bit...more like writing and getting a bad feeling about proceedings of the magistrate level hearing over my CTO status, i feel like the system might kick me around...written some stuff for them lateley hope its better then this $#%^...its the fuccking antipsychotics I tell you..my mind is not as vital and less itegrity in communications.

I am hoping to raist attention to how the nazi psychiatrists escaped wrcrimes for some of the worst torture and disgusting things done with the mentally ill, they killed hundreds of thousands of them and we never even hear about that happening, its secreet business..those quacks simply packed up and shipped to america and continued in the line of psychiatry we have today...a lot changed around this time in history what was psychiatry before that..maybe its an inherant thing like a mechanism that is natural for people to be afraid of something they don'[t undrestand and makke for a hard time with the mentally ill being outcast naturally from society..psychiatry acts like a tool for victimising people who are different or a challenge to normalcy .

I wrote a lot and was probalby jarbled, hope that bit about the nazi psychiatrist setting up for modern day psychiatry is important.

I', like you devilock and find discussion isn't that strong on here at times.

-- Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:39 pm --

sorry I started out totally reeking of #######4 of the psychiatry mental plane of thinking, like side-effects ...its not what I mean...I have thought they really like the way psychiatric drugs knock out fertility and mating abundance or whatever the word is, sexual verility etc anhedonia includes a sexual component and perfectly matches the way antipsychotics work but psychiatrists are ignorant to this making it out to be sympotms...different topic.

Its tricky devilock becuase the subject you are interested in is shrouded in much secreccy, and even if based on fact your thoughts and beliefs would be made out to be symptoms by ignorant psychiatrist, doesnt really matter what it is, if the psychiatrist blocks their ears and don't want to hear something or are challenged their belief systems for having meaning and dumbed down or desensitised for betraying our basic human rights...they are torturers, but yeah a lot of people appreciate their work so that just satisfies their egos, and they give a harder time with involuntary treatmnets to those that arre thinking this is a crock of $#%^

sorry the drugs ###$ my vocabulary too, as if I could chat up or even know what to do with a girl on antipsychotics. like I have nothing to offer now, or am not an interesting person...I pre-occupied with this $#%^ about psychiatry.
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Re: psychiatry and eugenics

Postby Razael » Thu Aug 08, 2013 9:50 am

don't blame anyone if not read all of this.

The issue is clouded in secrecy, how psychiatry relates to eugenics and how it stemms from those that got off warcrimes from NaZI times with the torture and murder of the mentally ill.

psychiatrist wouldn't understand they just say its symptoms for ignoring the issue that is too close to home to undertand what they are actually doing to people.
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Re: psychiatry and eugenics

Postby Devilock » Thu Aug 08, 2013 9:54 am

razael, im sorry your still suffering from forced injections agasint your will. I know all to well what that is like. It wasn't only the fat side effects (well that was part of it) but the inhumane treatment that made me even more shy to the opposite sex, before psychiatry and even a bit in the early days I was able to talk with guys/men in a comfortable way,if u liked some guy I felt I had *some* confidence in my body/face/personality to maybe ask them out or see if they were interested.
But now, mainly because of theinhumane treatment I feel like a lower species of human being and start thinking (I know they are wrong but) thinkning im not worth it anymore, they probably would walk all over me or use me, because ive beenthru so much abuse by psychiatry, and as soon as they found out that, it would probably be a deal breaker for the guy, his social position etc. I know these are negative thoughts, but also the weight gain comes into it, my body integrity was destroyed, the way I expressed myself around guys/men has changed, im not confident because I see myself as someone who shouldn't be confident because im not attractive (or as attractive as I was before) anymore and I even somethimes think , if a guy is interested in me, he might have some kind of sick fat fetish! I think to much probably but still...these are the results of psych abuse.
BTW no guys/men even *look* at me anymore, I mean I was never promiscuous but its nice to be appretiated. Its hard when your body image changes and u cant express your real personality anymore, I feel like I have to create a *big* personality for ppl to notice me, whereas before they saw me as a nice, pretty girl...just some thoughts, I hope u don't think im up myself its just how I feel.
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Re: psychiatry and eugenics

Postby Razael » Fri Aug 09, 2013 1:54 am

I dont think you are up yourself at all.....I am the same, I used to look alright now everything is different and like you the opposite sex doesnt pay me any attention anymore and same as you the treatment dehumanises me and have poverty of thought etc to even think positive things and n0 self confidence.....I didn;t have much of a social life before and certainly don't now other then stupid mental health groups, social groups which are a sham, nobody understand what psychiatry is they are all sucking up to them like the quacks like, I dont get how anyone could believe a quack

what part of austraia you from>>? I am from victoria and outskirts of melbourne on the peninsula
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Re: psychiatry and eugenics

Postby Devilock » Fri Aug 09, 2013 5:15 am

Razael wrote:I've thought a bit about the whole eugenics thing, it didn't seem to go anywhere and even the sexual side-effects seemed to be more and good side-effect that might make some egenisists or the psychiatrists think its not so much of a problem...when I am off antipsychotics to compared with when I am on them have a problem that I am not as self confident and don't even think about sex or when I see a girl when I am off antipsychotics I think about getting their attention and more confidence with myslef and feeling good about myslef...psychiatrist don't have anything to say about $#%^ like that coz they are too busy with a simple mind of making it out to be symptoms its discrimination at its worst and this treatmnet is inhuman...like what you can expect for anyone who having taken their liberty away from them...they don't care

sorry I been busy writing and have burnt out a bit...more like writing and getting a bad feeling about proceedings of the magistrate level hearing over my CTO status, i feel like the system might kick me around...written some stuff for them lateley hope its better then this $#%^...its the fuccking antipsychotics I tell you..my mind is not as vital and less itegrity in communications.

I find that I cant remember allot of words, when im trying to talk about something, icant find the right word. it feels as tho im not as smart anymore.

I am hoping to raist attention to how the nazi psychiatrists escaped wrcrimes for some of the worst torture and disgusting things done with the mentally ill, they killed hundreds of thousands of them and we never even hear about that happening, its secreet business..those quacks simply packed up and shipped to america and continued in the line of psychiatry we have today...a lot changed around this time in history what was psychiatry before that..maybe its an inherant thing like a mechanism that is natural for people to be afraid of something they don'[t undrestand and makke for a hard time with the mentally ill being outcast naturally from society..psychiatry acts like a tool for victimising people who are different or a challenge to normalcy .

I know, you don't learn about that stuff in 'history' or uni or whatever, your right it is secret business, I don't know how they get away with this stuff I really don't...re. that maybe they are scared of what they don't understand. Mabye I realize it, because ive been thru trauma and psychiatry, but even basic psychology states that when u go thru things like childhood trauma, there are going to be affects of that later that come out, all kinds of 'symptoms'. I was listeinig to madness radio (from freedom centre page) about a lady who had voices and she figured out how the voices and what they said and the tone of them etc were related to the trama she had been thru in childhood. She is now researching the effects of childhood trauma on psychosis and disosiation. But back to what I was saying, WHY don't psychiatrists realize that having symptoms of so called mi is just another human experience like being left handed (I quoted that from will hall freedom centre), and why don't they understand that maybe something is wrong in the persons life that they need to work on, why and how can they believe (imean come on , some of them have to be intelligent to go thru med school don't u think??) in a chemical imbalance , when the evidence for this is ridiculous, how can they not see this? how can they not *think* about stuff like this and realize it themselves without anti psych groups./survivors trying to raise their awareness? Its just logical. I guss they must be so condiditoned, so indoctrinated by this line of work, and then theres also the fact that, do they know they have to cause harm In their proffesion before they get into it? Or do they learn it when they train etc? I don't understand how psycs and the general public r so scared of mh issues when these ppl are suffereing, why don't they want to help them? to care about them? I know im not alone in thinking this stuff ive read others write about it, what is wrong here are they just uncaring uncompassionate ppl?

I wrote a lot and was probalby jarbled, hope that bit about the nazi psychiatrist setting up for modern day psychiatry is important.

I', like you devilock and find discussion isn't that strong on here at times.

thanx :) , yeah I check this forum allot and theres sometimes new topics, but only 1 or 2 commnets left, I wish we had heaps more ppl discussin.

-- Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:39 pm --

sorry I started out totally reeking of #######4 of the psychiatry mental plane of thinking, like side-effects ...its not what I mean...I have thought they really like the way psychiatric drugs knock out fertility and mating abundance or whatever the word is, sexual verility etc anhedonia includes a sexual component and perfectly matches the way antipsychotics work but psychiatrists are ignorant to this making it out to be sympotms...different topic.

Its tricky devilock becuase the subject you are interested in is shrouded in much secreccy, and even if based on fact your thoughts and beliefs would be made out to be symptoms by ignorant psychiatrist, doesnt really matter what it is, if the psychiatrist blocks their ears and don't want to hear something or are challenged their belief systems for having meaning and dumbed down or desensitised for betraying our basic human rights...they are torturers, but yeah a lot of people appreciate their work so that just satisfies their egos, and they give a harder time with involuntary treatmnets to those that arre thinking this is a crock of $#%^

yeah, allot of ppl with vested interest too, appretiate their work, like perpetrators of abuse, pharma companies, parents with control issues, relatives of a sufferer who want to get rid of them...etc etc this is part of the reason why it continues, but theres also the problem of psychiatry as a 'science', did it start off in the beginning as talk therapy? did they use barbituates and opiates BEFORE Nazi Germany? or did that start after? im not to sure on the timeline, did psychology come before psychiatry? I guess there were allot of ppl wandering around with mh issues and they just wanted to lock them all up, but even picturing this in my mind, an 18th century eccentric wandering around the streets homeless or whatever, id want to help them, get them shelter, food, care for them , get them somewhere 'safe; to stay, not bloody electrocute them. I think there are allot of ppl who are 'sick' and want to hurt others, I mean I can see this even when I was in hospital, basically 90% of the nurses and staff and drs, they are all assholes! there was like ONE caring nurse there who actually listened and had compassion, one in a building of like 200 staff. So def. I think these abusers/sadistic/cruel/unkind ppl are attracted to the proffesion, I know that sounds crazy if a lay person where to read that, and I wouldn't believe it either, except that ive experienced it, they really are ###$ up ppl that work in mh!

sorry the drugs ###$ my vocabulary too, as if I could chat up or even know what to do with a girl on antipsychotics. like I have nothing to offer now, or am not an interesting person...I pre-occupied with this $#%^ about psychiatry.


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Re: psychiatry and eugenics

Postby Cheze2 » Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:15 pm

Devilock wrote:I'd like to think that I havnt been sterilized ( and I know last time I posted it it was met with some harsh remarks about how amenhorea ISNT sterilization

I too have had amenhorrea due to psychiatric medication. I have also had my breasts produce milk. It caused a high prolactin level. Have you been able to get your prolactin level checked? A high prolactin level can cause these side effects.

Devilock wrote:but I intend to go to a fertility clinic and check (if they can???) to see if I am still able to have babies.

You can, there are many tests that a fertility clinic can run. Also, an OB/GYN can prescribe medication that can basically make you get your period, and can also cause ovulation.
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Re: psychiatry and eugenics

Postby Devilock » Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:37 am

cheze,
ive been to a gynecologist, who told me to take the pill, but another specialist I see, endocrinologist said the pill would create only an 'artificial period', and when I stopped taking the pill its likely the amenhorrea would return. There are also a Few other meds that would also cause an 'artificial' period.
Plus, I am worried I am infertile. The med used to get a period back being the pill, why would I take something that *makes* me infertile? I thought It might have some worrying effects and the specialist agreed with me.
Im pretty angry at the moment cause they all told me what u said that there are meds u can take to get your periods back, all the drs I have seen have not really cared about my situation, have played down the part of the anti psychotic in damaging me and have not taken it relally seriously.
So that's the point im at, going to check if I AM fertile still. If not, I will be persuing a lawsuit to get compensation and have been told by my lawyer I will be compensated if they have sterilized me.
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