The mental health system is dehumanizing

In my view what leads to abuse and dehumanization in psychiatry and the mental health system (should be called the mental illness system) is the whole concept of mental illness, it stigmatizes vulnerable hurting people simply looking for help. It’s cruel and heartless. Everything about this system is evil as far I’m concerned. On the surface they talk about compassion, unconditional positive regard, blah blah, blah, but its all #######4. The reality is they take your trauma, past abuse history and use it against you, and label you with a mental illness.

About 5 years ago due to a lot of depression and past trauma I decided to go to a community mental health clinic for help. What I experienced wasn’t anything I would call healing, it felt like I was bullied, dehumanized and left feeling even worse about myself. I don’t mean to give these fraudsters, I mean professionals my power but when you’re in a vulnerable state of mind, it’s easy to fall victim to this kind of manipulation. I was laughed at, treated like I was some horrible person, and discarded. Not once did anyone ever apologize, at least not genuinely or make any effort to reach out. It’s not that I think everyone is out to get me or I that have some delusional disorder, what I experienced was very real. I left humiliated and feeling suicidal. It isn’t mental illness that leads to suicide, it’s the way they treat you and the stigmatizing conditions they create that leads to suicide.

I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on what happened to me, and so many other people looking for help. This system needs to be done away with something that actually leads to real healing, treating clients as people rather than patients and stop labeling people’s suffering as symptoms of mental illness. It’s love and acceptance that helps.

On of the best posts I've read. I know, feel and think exactly what your saying because I lived it first hand.

This:

The reality is they take your trauma, past abuse history and use it against you, and label you with a mental illness.

Spot on! That is precisely how it works.

Not much more I can add other than I'm grateful you can see it.

Riccola wrote:On of the best posts I've read. I know, feel and think exactly what your saying because I lived it first hand.

It really is horrible what they do to people. Even if there well meaning this system does far more harm than good. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Darktolight74 wrote:

Riccola wrote:On of the best posts I've read. I know, feel and think exactly what your saying because I lived it first hand.

It really is horrible what they do to people. Even if there well meaning this system does far more harm than good. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

I think we are in no disagreement seeing eye to eye

It is dehumanizing to hear you and your brain are defective and in a chemical imbalance. Research finds that the chemical imbalance mantra increases stigma because it makes people believe those labelEd with mental illness are defective. It makes all accomplishments you perform the result not of your own hard work and qualities but from the drugs you take that correct how damaged you are. The even darker thing about this is that that evidence says there is no chemical imbalance until you give the people drugs. Research finds depressed people don’t have less serotonin than non-depressed people. In fact one study found depressed people had more serotonin. The drugs cause the chemical imbalance. That’s is their direct effect.
Short term and withdrawal studies find mental health medications reduce symptoms. But if we judged by short term effects recreational drugs would be the best treatments. Long term studies find these drugs worsen outcomes. Taking a antidepressant or antipsychotic increases your chance of becoming disabled by 50%. In the VA they found patients without mental illness who took mental health medications had almost double rates of suicide compared to veterans with mental illness who didn’t take drugs. Using psychiatric medications makes you worse. The system is the problem.

Darktolight74 wrote:About 5 years ago due to a lot of depression and past trauma I decided to go to a community mental health clinic for help. What I experienced wasn’t anything I would call healing, it felt like I was bullied, dehumanized

Ya its awful. About 10 years ago now for me the last one.

Never knew such horrific places even existed in civilized society.

For a long time I even thought about getting real drunk to look bad enough to get admitted again then have a friend sneak in a small video camera so I could expose what the hell was going on in that hellhole posing as 'help'

I was pissed for a long time, was on about a 7 year tear posting for the anti psychiatry movement every day.

Look at my post number

Copy_Cat wrote:

Darktolight74 wrote:About 5 years ago due to a lot of depression and past trauma I decided to go to a community mental health clinic for help. What I experienced wasn’t anything I would call healing, it felt like I was bullied, dehumanized

Ya its awful. About 10 years ago now for me the last one.

Never knew such horrific places even existed in civilized society.

For a long time I even thought about getting real drunk to look bad enough to get admitted again then have a friend sneak in a small video camera so I could expose what the hell was going on in that hellhole posing as 'help'

I was pissed for a long time, was on about a 7 year tear posting for the anti psychiatry movement every day.

Look at my post number

Same here, about 8-10 years for me. Some success, some not so much. Bitter sweet experience. Being validated in some places, shouted down in others. I did my small part. I gave people a voice. I said most of what I needed to say. If I improved mental health care for at least one person it was all worth it.

I agree. I “opened up” to a therapist about some trauma that I experienced several years prior and got a visit from child protective services as my reward.

I was lucky to have gotten through it with my family intact, but by sending in the troops, that therapist put me in a position where I had no choice but to go on record with law enforcement and tell them a lot of #######4 so they would leave me alone and now I am even more vulnerable than I was before. If it ever happens again, I can’t bring up the fact that it’s happened before because I had to say that it didn’t happen.

It will be a cold day in hell when I ever go back to any therapist.

I always suggest anyone who is mistreated inpatient leave bad reviews for the place on yelp and any review site you can find. People read them and eventually when they really pile up they have to treat people better.

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What's sad is so much of the public believes there is "help" in those ratholes. That has to be the worst part actually calling that vile abuse "help".

I don't like that slang "booty juice" being used to describe that nasty neurotoxin. Takes away from the severity of the crime.

Should be called injection rape