16 and ruined by psychiatry

I had alot of trauma early in life, I had a emotionally abusive family. One day my adopted mother decided to speculate I had a mental disorder and the nightmare began. I could write a book so this is just an outline. I have been to 2 long term facilities for 10 months and a year. I have been to 5 acute facilities. My adopted father still very much approves of them but I have a insider view that psychiatry is #######4. The cruel and inhuman treatment I have seen CHILDREN subjected to both tortures and horrifies me. I have seen staff mock and degrade patients in every way. I have seen the drugging and how the facility makes them worse. The violent fights. The callous doctors who only care about drugs AND IGNORE MEDICAL EMERGENCIES THAT SHOULD HAVE PROMPTED A EMERGENCY ROOM. I've seen the hopelessness people who have been many times have. THE WHOLE FACILITY THE DOCTRINE THE BELIEFS THEY DESTROY YOU. I HAVE SEEN 6 YEAR OLDS ON DRUGS AND IN RESTRAINTS! I have seen children from Puerto Rico restrained past 21! I have seen facilities take in patients they are not equipped to handle. I've seen much lies to the parents. I've seen staff that attempt to care be ridiculed and mocked. I've seen kids in facilities for the most nonsense normal bs. I've seen kids that just needed a hug instead of a clinical attitude.The many things I've seen traumatize me. I have seen a girl get lice and sent home with lice on a public plain and that's the least disgusting. Every psychiatrist I see diagnosed something different, I put no merit to the word diagnoses anymore. My list ADD ADHD aspegers bipolar ODD OCD BPD psychoactive substance abuse disorder RAD Child hoof onset conduct disorder anxiety scizoaffective disorder histrionic personality.
Seriously????
I've been put on every med in the book and felt no different though I was obese a while.
I got addicted to benzodiazepines specifically Adivan from the tranqs and began to take them illegally. I was a addict and had a seizure from withdrawals. I have had medical issues that never once got addressed because the doctors aren't there and the nurses just give meds.
Most recent was the "bipolar" diagnoses
I was in a acute facility for 4 days. My doctor met me ONCE didn't ask me symptoms said she thought I had an underlying mood disorder and BAM. I was placed on thorazine. My dad believes whatever the psychiatrist says my diagnoses is at the time and won't change. He is a bit of a overtly trusting idiot. when my school asked if I had a diagnosis and he said bipolar and they said they would call the therapist for advice. I stopped the interview and now I'm getting declared a incorrigible child in court Wednesday and being placed in JDC... Long story. The bitch shrink said "if she took the meds she wouldn't act this way" bitch ive been doped up my whole life and my only two moods are calmness and irritation.If they had said depression this time you would say the same thing. I was coherent,my moods are consistent, and my actions premeditated, and I act the same in all situations. I am not taking Thorazine because I cannot stay awake on it and it gives me tongue spasms blurred vision,drowsiness,sluggish thoughts,cotton mouth, and dizziness. My "dad" doesn't need to know this. I honestly think old me just wanted loving parents, New me has PTSD from all the "help" and a lot of pent up hatred.
I despise my dad and want to move away from the labels. I went from a normal teenager to someone hardened and heartless who can hold a knife to a person's neck or put them in a sleepers hold with no emotion and a calm smirk...... I apologize for my decline in grammar and structure, not only is this a phone keyboard, but I also used this website like a diary to an extent. 2 more years to freedom.....

I am so incredibly sorry you had to be innocent human being who was witness to that. I am sorry you had to have an experience that was entirely abuse just for existing. I am sorry. Total fail on all levels.

What you describe is everything which is wrong in mainstream psychiatry. A system that profits off of human suffering while damaging individual people without any accountability. The harm done lasts many lifetimes as it fails society as whole. These systems have only one goal and that is to capitalize irregardless of recovery or human rights.

I know exactly what you are talking about as I have seen it first hand. There are people in the field of psychiatry who belong no where but in prison. I have witnessed the reckless drugging of people in psychiatry, I have witnessed the brainwashing of people and I have witnessed the progressive iatrogenic illnesses arising from "treatment". I have seen staff instigate children and adults to act out to the point of restraint and I have witnessed psychiatrists implant false memories of abuse/neglect in children and adults. And yes, I have seen plenty of abuse both from poor judgement such as pairing victims with offenders and bullying by staff. Staff will tell patients not make fun of other patients yet will humiliate them in front of others while cracking jokes about them to other staff behind the patient's back. These psychiatrists will make diagnoses up as they go along just to justify some type of costly treatment.

This is not a rare exception but goes on all the time. Psychiatric inpatient facilities vary widely in quality but its safe to say most of them one way or another need dire improvement. And to this day this system as whole is still doing harm failing individual people left and right. The mentally ill are going from abusive facilities to ending up on the streets and eventually in prison. They are being eaten up by a criminal justice system which is incredibly ill equipped to handle them. Young children left and right are being labelled with ADHD and being medicated. Foster kids and those suffering with illness are being put through treatment programs which not only make them sicker but also incredibly bitter and angry, anger that eventually gets taken out on the rest of society.

As they say unlimited power corrupts the possessor. I say corruption is an unwritten requirement in order to practice psychiatry.

Few people know how this works unless they see it for themselves. Once you see it you know. Ive seen it and wish I had not. I am still trying to undo the brainwashing that was practiced on me by psychiatrists as well as feeling of knowing the failed to help me in any meaningful way.

I am sorry you are going through this. I really am. My respect goes out to you.

Metalhead199909 wrote:The cruel and inhuman treatment I have seen CHILDREN subjected to both tortures and horrifies me.

That was the worst part for me, seeing what they were doing to others who lacked the capacity to fight back.

Metalhead199909 wrote:I could write a book so this is just an outline.

Well get involved,

www.madinamerica.com

www.mindfreedom.org

http://psychrights.org/

Mainly what I do is "copy cat" the truth about psychiatry all around the online to expose this stuff to as many people as possible. That's my contribution to the fight for human rights in mental health.

Was this abusive place a UHS facilty ?

Here is a list http://www.uhsinc.com/facilities/find-a-location/

And check this out http://uhsbehindcloseddoors.org/

And this site is dedicated to all the people who were harmed or killed in UHS facilities. They speak for those who have no voice, to protect others from experiencing the pain they endured.

https://watchinguhs.wordpress.com/about/

Riccola wrote: A system that profits off of human suffering while damaging individual people without any accountability.

Here is a small way to hold them accountable, consumer complaint sites.

www.ripoffreport.com

www.pissedconsumer.com

Here is one I encouraged a poster in this forum to write and the administrator of the place responded when he found out the complaint was posted online for the world to see.

http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Restpadd- ... ia-1046550

To anyone that reads this just remember NOT to post these things when angry because there is no go back and edit or a delete button. You push that submit button there is no taking back what you wrote.

Those links are good. I think the more people speak out the better IMO. There is power in numbers and ever human experience has value.