Dear service user (a message from psychiatry)

“Dear service user,

You are about to stay in an environment where, as has been repeatedly documented in recent decades, you have a one in three chance of being physically, emotionally or sexually abused.

You will receive a diagnosis that has no scientific credibility and is made on the basis of social rather than biomedical judgements, although the people making the diagnosis and those who support them pretend it is the latter.

If your stay is prolonged, your diagnosis will change repeatedly, corresponding to changes in your psychiatrist. This will also happen if, after your discharge, you re-locate and are subsequently treated in a different part of the country. This may well confuse and/or annoy you or both

During your stay with us, you will be bored a lot of the time, or anxious, or both. The chances are that the only ‘therapy’ you can realistically expect to receive will be drug therapy. You probably won’t have the negative short and long term effects of these drugs explained to you, and what should be their judicious use over a short period probably won’t happen to you. You are likely to be in drug therapy for a long time.

If you don’t like all of this and try leaving, we may well legally detain you.”

This just came out >> http://www.madinamerica.com/2016/07/you-can-have-any-kind-of-treatment-you-want-providing-its-our-kind/

I need to work on doing humorous posts, I can write a real angry one, psychiatry is an atrocity so that's easy, but I think this humorous kind of stuff is just as effective maybe more.