mental health abuse and other oppression

I just found this quote from madinamerica.com

Addressing injustices in the mental health system MUST go hand in hand with the other power imbalances we are struggling with as they are the root cause of psychiatric evils.

Chaya Grossberg.

I agree with this to a certain degree, there are many other oppressions and power inbalances going on in society , that we need to work on. Many of these made way for psychiatry as a tool of social control. Just wanted to post this quote as when I read it I found I could relate to it.

This woman speaks out about mental health abuse and oppression.

Depot injection robs artist of her creativity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBJBMXw7-fw

According to a recent comment the lady Jean on the youtube vid is now dead.

She was able to give a pretty good account of herself, her situation and the blockheadedness of the psychtroopers. It's a pity that she didn't call their bluff and flat out refuse to be further assaulted and intimidated.

I too was harassed and detained several times over a period of about two years. It was a real hassle but I was a bit younger and fitter than Jean. There were times I had to physically escape from hospitals or from cops coming to my house. Times when I had a place to live but had to live on the street away from home.

Eventually, in a very very quiet voice I made my position and possible courses of events very very very clear. For the time being at least I'm free of these imbeciles.

Many people have deep feelings of shame over whatever event or series of events bought them to the attention of shrinks in the first place. That deep shame can be useful if it causes the person to take stock and consider what they have been believing, thinking, saying and doing. But it's a terrible thing if that shame allows a person to accept coercion, lies and bullying upon themselves.

Rod wrote:Many people have deep feelings of shame over whatever event or series of events bought them to the attention of shrinks in the first place.

Attention of shrinks ?

Psychiatry just loves state insurance dollars. Check out how psychiatry drugs foster kids in the United States.

These kids speak out.

ABC 20/20 drugging foster children Part 1 of 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W8SHEe5y-o

drugging foster children special Part 2 of 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiVcdmm5FhU

ABC 2020 drugging foster children special Part 3 of 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mjSM0tEZBo

Sure, there a plenty of ways the industry finds or creates new customers without anyone doing anything much at all. Just existing as a kid can be enough.

Yeah, this is about much more than just mental health oppression, but about society's ongoing war against the outsider. To understand psychiatric oppression, the whole issue needs to be liberated from its current conceptual and mythological moorings and situated in the context of society's scapegoating of marginal individuals. When I say scapegoating, I don't just mean the obvious example of scapegoating "schizophrenics" for the violence latent and apparent in society, but also for the lunacy that human flesh is heir to, which in our age characterized by the hypocritical worship of reason, must be foisted onto the shoulders of the socially marginal, the undesirable, the inconvenient, the disfranchised, the wretched, the voiceless, and generally society's third class citizens, from whose ranks are always recruited society's sacrificial scapegoats.

The worst thing is, society has not evolved to the point where it can understand this insidious process underpinning human social life, and without the requisite knowledge it occurs without hindrance, so that the very participants in this ritual are ignorant to its workings, seeing only the outer mythical trappings. In this case, the idiom and imagery of medicine and medical care has been appropriated to draw a veil over the scapegoating of the patient, and that's all people can see. Of course, because it is a subliminal process, occurring outside the jurisdiction of intellect, firmly anchored in the realm of instinct and unconscious ritual, this only makes it much easier for participants to deny it, it dismissing it as the rancid fruit of a conspiracy "nut's" imagination, or a symptom of "schizophrenia", as if something is only true in so far as the herd and its shepherds are conscious of it.

This is one of the reasons why I categorically reject the bifurcation of human society implicit in mental health theory, dividing it into categories of sane and insane, mentally healthy and mentally ill, because all too often it seems to be in the service of laying the conceptual groundwork for the scapegoating of individuals, for the expulsion of individuals from the community itself as well as, in the case of those who are coerced and abused, expulsion from the community of moral obligation where people operate under the guidance of the golden rule.

The binarism of "Us" and "Them" can be both a consequence of discriminatory social policy and attitudes as well as the matrix within which originates discrimination, which is why I find mental health theory so repugnant, drawing as it does arbitrary distinctions between people, distinctions rooted in scapegoating, specifically in this case the collective displacement of undesirable traits and impulses onto social lepers/scapegoats which redounds to the smug self-satisfaction of the scapegoaters.

I totally agree that the problem is much bigger. Be at that I am a 1013 (Georgia Emergency Hold) victim I think I have the best insight to the real problem. The real problem is that our society has decided that doctors,lawyers,nurses,police, and politicians are so important to a civilized and productive society that they have allowed them a special set of rules which gives them too much power and control. The doctors, lawyers,nurses,police, and politicians then turn around and abuse this power and control to get whatever they want, whenever and wherever they want.

In my case, I saw firsthand people into everything from gangs to secret society to bdsm were allowed into the behavorial center and the hospital that started the 1013.