Hopefully this post will explain the reasoning behind the creation of our latest and most controversial forum. It will also explain the rules of this site and act as a first warning to those who might choose to violate those rules.
If you have any questions please direct them towards me.
The Rules
The rules here are simple, this is an open forum and we would like to keep it that way.
Watch Your Language Please. We understand the use of certain words, but please do not go overboard or we will need to start censoring those words.
Be Sensible. Don't post more personal information that you are willing to share with a stranger.
Be Respectful of Others. Please do not post hateful or insulting comments. No personal attacks will be allowed.
No Inappropriate Advertisements or Links. Products or sites relating to the topic of discussion are acceptable, anything else will be removed and the user warned or possibly banned.
Do Not SPAM the Forums. Post your topic to the appropriate forum, if it fits in more than one topic then select the most appropriate one.
Remember these boards are for everyone… those with mental illness, their friends, family, caregivers, students and mental health professionals.
Moderators and Administrators have the authority to warn or ban users who violate these rules.
I am aware this is a touchy subject and that people may get angry, but I won't allow that anger to be taken out on the Moderators or other members. If we see personal attacks, name calling, or other childish behavior then we will remove the post. If we see such behavior again, then we will ban the poster.
I believe that everything in life can be discussed by people in a mature and sensible way, please help prove me right.
About Anti-Psychiatry
The Anti-Psych Movement started out in the 1960s as it sounds - a movement against psychiatry which proposed the belief that psychiatric patients did not have a mental illness but were simply living a different lifestyle. The movement has shifted in the past 50 years however and it is that shifted definition which our forum is meant to show.
Most, if not all antipsychiatrists oppose inhumane treatment of mental patients (or even their status as "mental patients" in the first place), either through the damaging effects of long-term institutionalization or the use of specific interventions given without informed consent. Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, has been used to sedate and punish difficult psychiatric patients, rather than for therapeutic purposes, and even some psychiatrists oppose ECT based on studies of its safety and effectiveness. Others, such as Szasz and Breggin, contend that even accepted therapeutic practices remain instruments of social control. Punitive use of "treatment", including ECT, isolation, and restraint has diminished, but is still widely documented.
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry
Among the concerns covered by Anti-Psychiatry are:
- Over Diagnosis of Mental Illness
Reliance on outdated and unproven treatment methods
Reliance on medications we know little about
Use of forced treatment including ECT, forced medication, forced confinement
While Pro Anorexia is an offshoot of Anti-Psychiatry, it is not going to be allowed on our site because it is harmful.
As you can tell I feel that many of the points in this movement are valid and valuable. I feel that many illnesses are overdiagnosed, including ADHD. I feel that many people are being medicated when they should receive therapy instead... especially children and teenagers. I feel that people should never be forced into a treatment or situation they do not want. [/list]
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