Coercive Psychiatry, Right, Wrong or just dont know?

Kathy,

Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health will make coercive psychiatry in Australia look insignificant.

I also think the American people wont fall for it, people will say, "wheres the proof?". I'm sure they will want Lab test results from a legitimate scientific diagnostic test for their newly diagnosed mental illness before they take drugs. And HA HA psychopharmocology wont be able to provide it. I believe the millions of people asking questions will be downfall of the APA and the NAMI.

I assume you are aware of the Bush families interest in Eli Lilly the giant psych drug manufacturer. It's amazing he's trying it on.

http://zmagsite.zmag.org/May2004/levine0504.html

It will be scary times ahead, but common sense and truth will prevail.

Here is a copy of an email I recieved.

Hello members of WNUSP,

Here in Holland we have a small victory in our fight against the Dutch version of Involuntary Outpatient Commitment or 'voorwaardelijke machtiging' as it is called in Dutch. Under this law you can live in your own home under condition that you cooperate with treatment. If you don't cooperate you have to be taken into a mental hospital also against your will. The 'Hoge raad', the national Dutch version of a supreme court has ruled in a case that in your own home you are free to live as you like, that you can't be forced to live under conditions. During our protest against the law we
already argued that the law is not good according to article 10 of the Dutch constitution which says that you have right of privacy in your own home, that you can't be monitored in your own home in other words. Our opponents have reacted to this ruling that right to receive care should go above right of freedom.

THIS IS A HUGE VICTORY!!!! THINGS ARE CHANGING!

Shrink,

I don't agree with coercive psychiatry....so this is good news!!

Kathy

It is well documented that many people experience involuntary psychiatric treatment and unwanted forced drugging as an assault. Some describe it as similar to rape where the assault strikes to the core of your body, mind and soul. As with sexual assaults, our mental health system needs to respect the very basic human requirement at such times that ―No means ―No .

It is also well documented that many suicidal people are struggling with complex personal histories of trauma. For these people, involuntary psychiatric treatment further traumatises them, often worsening or indeed sometimes triggering suicidal feelings. More generally, if we understand suicidality as a crisis of the self – i.e. rather than the consequence of some "mental illness" then it simply does not make sense to further attack an already fragile sense of self. It is hard to imagine anything less helpful for the suicidal person than to be assaulted by those you seek help from at a time of such crisis.