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Proving a misdiagnosis?/labels & discrimination*may trigger*

Postby PilotX » Wed Sep 23, 2015 5:47 am

In a way the psychiatric labels have proven to be more disabling then an actual supposed psychiatric condition...people automatically assume your out to hurt or kill other people and they deny you or take away certain rights and/or privilidges because of that..

for instance because of my suicidal history
-i can not obtain a private pilots licence-see below if you are going to bring up the German-wings incident.
-I may not be able to obtain a CDL or job as a commercial semi-truck driver
-have to get special permission and/or a written letter by my psychiatrist to obtain an auto-racing licence

This question is under the assumption that the diagnosis was truly a misdiagnosis

I know I've had some bad days, and that is technically depression, but why is depression and mental illness always permanent?

Since I have been diagnosed I have been unable to get a private pilots licence, due to not being able to even get a third class medical, and also now I am looking into obtaining a job as semi-truck driver which could be impossible because of being labeled as bipolar-i've also heard of at least one case were a driver was sent home during company sponsored training because it was against company policy for a bipolar man to work as a driver for their company. I understand the German-wings incident, but I personally have no intention of harming innocent lives-and I WANT TO LIVE too, as well. I wouldn't even so much as harm a bug if I could help it-(with the exception of cockroaches and mosquitoes). I believe most of my behavior was in response to the human stimulus-known as :roll: people :roll:, but i attribute some of my past behavior to a past of hatred for religion (i could care less now but i was pretty hateful in the past), and a suicide attempt using sleeping pills and caffeine (the drugs could have made me delusional).

I have been told you can go to court, and have your psychiatric record expunged, if the court so deems appropriate, is this true?


Also if you Defected to another country would your psychiatric record stay with you then?
say if you were an American who defected to another country and lets say for times sake you were stable without any psychiatric medicine whatsoever....could you start a "new life" etc.
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Re: Proving a misdiagnosis?/labels & discrimination*may trigger*

Postby Copy_Cat » Wed Sep 23, 2015 6:33 pm

The Physicians' Desk Reference lists the following adverse reactions (side effects) to antidepressants among a host of other physical and neuropsychiatric effects:


Manic Reaction (Mania, e.g., Kleptomania, Pyromania, Dipsomania)
Abnormal Thinking
Hallucinations
Personality Disorder
Amnesia
Agitation
Psychosis
Abnormal Dreams
Emotional Lability (Or Instability)
Alcohol Abuse and/or Craving
Hostility
Paranoid Reactions
Confusion
Delusions
Sleep Disorders
Akathisia (Severe Inner Restlessness)
Discontinuation (Withdrawal) Syndrome


I would think about blaming your suicidal history on the drugs themselves.

PilotX wrote:why is depression and mental illness always permanent?


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The Investigation:

The astonishing increase in the disability numbers during the past fifty years raises an obvious question: Could the widespread use of psychiatric medications--for one reason or another--be fueling this epidemic? Anatomy of an Epidemic investigates that question, and it does so by focusing on the long-term outcome studies in the research literature. Do the studies tell of a paradigm of care that helps people get well and stay well over the long term? Or do they tell of a paradigm of care that increases the likelihood that people diagnosed with mental disorders will become chronically ill?


http://robertwhitaker.org/robertwhitaker.org/Anatomy%20of%20an%20Epidemic.html

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Re: Proving a misdiagnosis?/labels & discrimination*may trigger*

Postby Copy_Cat » Wed Sep 23, 2015 6:46 pm

What country are you in anyway ?

PilotX wrote:which could be impossible because of being labeled as bipolar



US Children Diagnosed With Bipolar 72 Times More Often than Kids in UK : https://www.madinamerica.com/2014/10/us-youth-diagnosed-bipolar-72-times-often-uk/


The Latest Mania: Selling Bipolar Disorder http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0030185


Just do your homework on this , "bipolar" is a joke used to make billions for those criminals in the psycho pharmaceutical industrial complex.

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You can beat that label. Read that book "Anatomy of an Epidemic" .

I am also curious where on your record or what record they stuck it that anyone can find.
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Re: Proving a misdiagnosis?/labels & discrimination

Postby Copy_Cat » Tue Oct 27, 2015 2:21 pm

PilotX wrote:psychiatric labels


“Former Navy Pilot Sues U.S. Government Over Bipolar Diagnosis”

October 15, 2015

A former Navy pilot claims that a VA doctor misdiagnosed him with a mental disorder that prevented him from flying and ended his career. William Royster was told in 2004 that he was bipolar, that it was a permanent condition, and that he could no longer work in any capacity, according to the Navy Times. A different psychiatrist, however, later told Royster that he never met the criteria for diagnosis.

Story → http://www.madinamerica.com/2015/10/former-navy-pilot-sues-u-s-government-over-bipolar-diagnosis/
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