psychiatry and eugenics

sue there arse's devilock good luck to you...sounds typical that the pro's are aloof to the damage they are causing it makes me so angry ignorant phuckers..

do you have any links to specific maad in america articles of eugenics?

Razael wrote:sue there arse's devilock good luck to you...sounds typical that the pro's are aloof to the damage they are causing it makes me so angry ignorant phuckers..

do you have any links to specific maad in america articles of eugenics?

http://www.madinamerica.com/?s=eugenics&submit=Search

I read that article and it sounds about right. I myself was told that I probably "shouldn't have any more children" and the gynecologist recommended a hysterectomy. I hate that man to THIS DAY.

I remember about six months ago a man was on another forum telling how happily married he was and that he had fallen in love with a woman who had a mild developmental disability. The man is the happiest that he's ever been in his life. I am not sure if they have kids or not, but it was heartening.

My entire--entire--family has madness of one type or another. My siblings are all what they call "full functioning" but at one time or another they have taken meds and they tend to have alcohol addicition, drug addiction and GAD. They are all brilliant. And then, my cousin and I have bipolar. She's an organist. Had she been not allowed to be born, we wouldn't have beautiful organ music playing and people wouldn't be touched by her life.

And then, there is also discrimination with learning disabled folks as well. My friend who is diabetic and also has severe dyslexia and mild depression--her doctor ALSO RECCOMENDED that she not have any more kids. My brother, who is super briliiant, was a late bloomer. Mom had to force the school not to discriminate against him because of his mild dyslexia and his overall developmental state. He learned late, but he's brilliant--He can speak fluent Chinese. He teaches English for Ole Miss.

Robert Whitaker says this:


This “finding,” and other such findings said to prove that mental illness was a genetic illness, naturally led the public to fear the hospitalized mentally ill. Their genes were a threat to society’s collective gene pool. Meanwhile, in their writings, eugenicists described the mentally ill as “social wastage” and as “unfit” human beings, and talked about the need to remove this “social cancer” from American society. With such declarations influencing the American mind, 66% of the public said in 1937 that they favored sterilizing the “defectives” in society.

This disparagement of the mentally ill naturally led to a drop in public funding for state mental hospitals, and many fell into total disrepair. In addition, it set the stage for psychiatry, in the 1930s and 1940s, to embrace a quartet of medical therapies that were understood to “work” by damaging the brain. The therapeutic reasoning was easy to understand: If the mentally ill had little value, and were generally “unfit” human beings, then therapies that quieted them and made them easier to manage—even if they seemed to knock the patients down to a lower level of being—could be embraced as helpful. The first three such therapies were insulin coma therapy, metrazole convulsive therapy, and repetitious electroshock therapy. The fourth was frontal lobotomy, which at the time was hailed as a miracle brain surgery."
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I remember that the Kennedys had several diagnoses. I remember that they lobotomized Rose? was it?

I know that those also who have revolutionary ideas are also put down. Feminism, Civil Rights, etcetera. I remember the way that the folks in the film "Modigliani" were treated. I remember how the artist who had some schiz. like symptoms was treated. I remember also "A Beautiful Mind" where the man was treated with INSULIN.
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And of course, where I live, we still have problems with idiots and race. Oh. This person did this because they are ******************************.

UGH!

And by the way, epigenetics DOES WORK. If you stop the behavior, then you get the creativity and the intelligence without the alcoholism and etc. My own family proves this. In one generation there has been marked improvement because everyone went to talk therapy and passed the new behaviors to their children.

Razael, hope you are having success fighting cto. It is an absolute outrage. I am in uk and under severe pressure to take meds that I don't want.