What Do Anti-Psychiatry People (You) Think of Therapy?

I have some mild but chronic issues that I can't seem to fix on my own, so I have been considering counseling. Because I am wary of psychology, have been misdiagnosed in the past, had therapists seriously mix up the personal details I've given them, and mis-administer neuropsych test, I wanted an anti-psychiatry perspective on my situation.

I'm willing to try a therapist, but I can't afford the ones I want to see, and I don't trust the therapists offered by state insurance and the VA. I'm also very socially isolated and have no one else to talk to, and part of my problem is communication issues anyways. I know talking to another person would probably be good for me, and I think that my issues are too complex for a layperson. I looked up self-therapy online, and almost none of what I found is relevant.

Does anti-psychiatry include a critique of psychology, specifically, therapy? I've only found one such article so far, and the advice was to talk to a friend What could someone in my position do that didn't involve traditional therapy, if anything?

First you would have to tell me what an anti psychiatry person is cause I can't figure it out.

I believe in basic inalienable human rights to the field of mental health, including, but not limited to, full informed consent regarding the medical legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosis, the risks of psychiatric treatments, the right to all available medical alternatives, and the right to refuse any treatment considered harmful.

I am anti the way psychiatry does things. Therapy is alright, I think group therapy is best. Drugs are OK *if* they provide real informed consent and that is very rare.

I think therapy is harmful if it pushes all that broken brain you will always be sick unscientific horse crap they use to push drugs.

It is known that people suffering from mental disorders and especially their families prefer a diagnosis of “physical disease” because it does not convey the stigma and blame commonly associated with “psychological problems”. A “physical disease” sells drugs, and mental patients are often more amenable to drug treatment when they are told they have a physical disease.

This is important because studies show that patients who are convinced they are suffering from a neurotransmitter defect are likely to request a prescription , and may be skeptical of physicians who suggest other interventions such as cognitive behavioral therapy.

So if you can get real therapy that's great. What you are getting is like a life coach.

If all you get is the generic "psycho education" it sucks ... lets google psycho education. Results in blue.

"Psychoeducation refers to the education offered to individuals with a mental health condition and their families to help empower them and deal with their condition in an optimal way."

Psychoeducation has been termed the combining of “the empowerment of the affected” with “scientifically-founded treatment expertise” in as efficient a manner as possible

help empower them... ya right, you get the usual broken brain bullcrap and told you will be broken forever and need to be a pharma costumer for life.

More broadly, it is also referred to as “an important component of any psychotherapy program as well as any visit you have to the doctor. . . . [It] is education about a certain situation or condition that causes psychological stress”

Psych education is indoctrination and pharmaceutical marketing.

So anyway real therapy life coach style great, psycho education generic psych industry bull more harm than good. Lets google medical model harms people, I don't want to write this all out myself, its easier to copy cat it. I Did a few more searches,

Comparing the biomedical and social models of health...


FUTURE OF THE MEDICAL MODEL IN PSYCHIATRY

We believe that it is important to adhere to the medical model as we have defined it (‘does it work?’). If we do not we may lose our hard-earned gains in defining effective psychiatric treatments. We must continue to gather quality evidence in order to establish which interventions work. This may be particularly challenging when defining which elements of psychosocial treatments are effective. This is critical to improve the credibility of psychiatry as a medical specialty, which has been attacked because psychiatric treatments are multidimensional.


No psychiatry has been attacked cause you guys lie constantly and your buddies in the pharma industry are soulless psychos . Only soulless psychos would hide known side effects and then market those drugs to children at the same time. Dirtiest people on earth. Cockroaches posing as humans. Lies fraud crimes all day long.

Over the course of 20 years, Johnson & Johnson created a powerful drug, promoted it illegally to children and the elderly, covered up the side effects and made billions of dollars. This is the inside story. http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/miracleindustry/americas-most-admired-lawbreaker/

I should have done a better job on that above post, I was racing the clock was loosing and just hit the submit button cause I had to go. I guess I said what I wanted to say but its all sloppy and rushed.

-- Mon May 30, 2016 3:20 am --

That post sucked, sorry.

I'm anti-involuntary 'treatment'. And that does include anyone involved in the process. Psychologists do play a role although it's much less than the psychiatrist's. That's because everyone has become convinced that every mental problem has some kind of chemical solution. Big pharma is a big culprit in that.

And they are all morons. I dealt with them for 2 years and never found one psychiatrist or psychologist who had an ounce of common sense. If I want someone to talk to I will go to a hooker. And get a bj too!

Parador wrote:I'm anti-involuntary 'treatment'. And that does include anyone involved in the process.

Lots of people are certainly involved.






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The mental health industry and the prison industrial complex have pretty much merged.

Is it necessary to visit a psychiatrist once a month?

There is no therapy. Psychology is a theory that never works in practice. Ignore it. Psychiatry is a brain mutilation. Avoid it.

You have a personal problem that you cannot solve yourself because you lack some knowledge of some area that has the name for your problem and the solution as well.

Let me tell you, medicine has no answers to any problems, and no honesty, no integrity, no legitimacy. You would do better hitting yourself with a hammer in the head than going to a crooked charlatan, any charlatan for that matter.

If you will be smart about it, you will avoid everything medical, and you will learn new skills and study new subjects until you find the specific skill or knowledge that not only gives a good name to your problem, but also gives a good solution.

Btw. I would deport all doctors of medicine to the hands of isis and they could torture each other. That would be great! I refuse medical law as much as I refuse sharia law. I refuse that religion as much as I refuse medical religion. They are extremists as much as doctors of medicine are extremists.

And since they belong together, we should deport all doctors of medicine to isis, where they could torture each other. And during Hitler, doctors of medicine were the executioners and torturers in concentration camps. The concentration camps were invented by doctors of medicine. They were hospitals, as you could also see by the labeling and the system with white coats. Concentration camps were hospitals. And gas chambers were all work of doctors of medicine, and also war atrocities during the world wars were all work of doctors of medicine. Even today, almost all torture such as waterboarding, genital mutilations, brain mutilations is done by doctors of medicine. Just so that everybody knows who tortures innocent people the most, more than police, more than criminals, doctors of medicine! They genitally mutilate children every day in every country, and they are the executioners in death rows, as well as the sickest members of the society, forever! Don't ever go to any doctor of medicine with anything because every problem can be made worse, while you get tricked, and again tricked, and again tricked. That is how concentration camps worked and still work. Remember that they will trick you. Because of doctors of medicine, we still live in the middle ages! We need to get rid of them! Hospitals are still the same concentration camps and those doctors are still the sickest pigs in our society.