Zelpha wrote:Thank you, Copycat. This is informative.
Although some people do benefit from medications, I don't. And I'm tired of doctors pushing meds on me.
You're right : for all the $ they've pumped into me for pills & hospital stays that made me feel like crap, they could have bought me a car & house by now, and most of my problems would be solved!
I never calculated the overall cost of all the hospitals and doctors for the years psychiatry was keeping me sick but its easily a middle size house paid in full .
I don't know that much about the disability system but there is this,
About the Book
Anatomy of an Epidemic investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of adults and children disabled by mental illness skyrocketed over the past fifty years? There are now more than four million people in the United States who receive a government disability check because of a mental illness, and the number continues to soar. Every day, 850 adults and 250 children with a mental illness are added to the government disability rolls. What is going on?
The Mystery
The modern era of psychiatry is usually said to have begun with the introduction of Thorazine into asylum medicine in 1955. This kicked off a “psychopharmacological revolution,” or so our society is told, with psychiatry discovering effective drugs for mental disorders of all kinds. In 1988, the first of the “second-generation” psychiatric drugs--Prozac--was introduced, and these new drugs were said to represent another therapeutic advance. Yet, even as this “psychopharmacological revolution” has unfolded over the past 50 years, the number of people disabled by mental illness has soared.http://robertwhitaker.org/robertwhitake ... demic.htmlMy experience showed me how psychiatric drugs make and keep you sick that's why the number of people disabled by mental illness has soared.
Here is some stuff that may be useful in fighting attempts to coerce you to take psychotropic drugs.
The Forced Drugging Defense Package developed by the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights for the MindFreedom Shield program.
http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/shield/forced-drug-defense-pkg/defense-packageI also need fresh air, sunshine and exercise to stay well. I am "lucky" (I make my own luck) that I don't need to have a 9 to 5 Monday to Friday job.
That bull of needing to goto bed and wake up "on time" almost killed me cause my inability to do that is what lead me to see a doctor in the first place and try those first pills that set the whole psychiatric nightmare into motion.
Humans never slept "on time" everyday, dogs , birds , rabbits deer monkeys no other mammal sleeps and wakes by the clock. We didn't even have clocks 99.99_ % of the time we have been in existence.
"Just get up early so at night you will be tired and sleep" Shut up !! THAT NEVER WORKS !!!!! I end up "to tired to sleep" if that makes any sense, and then bug out from lack of sleep.
Below a research paper on sleep that explains how "insomnia" is a fraud and doesn't really exist.
The myth of the eight-hour sleep - BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783I was trying to drug myself into conforming to an UNNATURAL condition, Just like millions of other people with so called insomnia, I was never broken.
I got off the psychiatric drugs and now live an "off grid" lifestyle. I own my place, my car and have basically no bills besides the coerced auto insurance.
No way could I live the standard way, a rent or mortgage slave drugging myself to sleep at night to try and wake up on time for a regular job to pay for housing.
The biggest fattest F that ever, I have a boat and its mine I will never be homeless unless accidentally I sink it. I always have a place to go that's safe and mine.
I beat the slavery system, the feudalism land people live under. Pay up or be homeless, F that 100 more times.
Other people have called out the system,
Housing First approaches are based on the concept that a homeless individual or household's first and primary need is to obtain stable housing, and that other issues that may affect the household can and should be addressed once housing is obtained. In contrast, many other programs operate from a model of "housing readiness" — that is, that an individual or household must address other issues that may have led to the episode of homelessness prior to entering housing.http://www.google.com/search?q=housing+first"housing readiness" — that is, that an individual or household must address other issues...
Address other issues... That means "treatment" psychiatric labels and expensive drugging !
One more link you or anyone else reading this might find interesting,
Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill
http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/02/why-anti-authoritarians-are-diagnosed-as-mentally-ill/That really explains me. Bullsh^t just stresses me out and makes me "ill".
I survived psychiatry.