The Psychiatric Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement

I found a good one.

Behind the Locked Doors of Inpatient Psychiatry

http://behindthelockeddoors.wordpress.com/

Those who have been behind the locked doors of impatient psychiatry are not the only "survivors".

"Quick Overview 'GENERATION RX'
For decades, scores of doctors, government officials, journalists, and others have extolled the benefits of psychiatric medicines for children. GENERATION RX presents “the rest of the story” and unveils how this era of unprecedented change in Western culture really occurred — and what price has been paid by our society. "

The 'GENERATION RX' Extended Trailer, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xehHwkPpevk

I found this page searching the keywords psychiatric and survivor, Here is a "copy_cat" quote from it:

"Welcome to the Church of Psychiatry, where they practice faith-based “medicine”…

No longer are you possessed by demons, able to be cured by trepanning holes into your skull. No, now you have a “brain disorder”, another invisible force inside you acting on you to “cause” you to feel and behave in ways that are separate from who you are as a person, and we call this method of recording unobservable phenomenon…faith-based science. We can’t see it, but we just know it has to be there somewhere, because well, what the ###$ else could it be? Unfortunately, the unseen, undetectable, psychiatric “brain disorder” is incurable. That’s right. You were better off when they were blaming the demons and boring holes in your cranium. Even back then, there is evidence that people survived the “treatments” and tried them again and again.

Psychiatry’s “treatments” often don’t work. Even the industry shills will admit to that; however, all logic stops there. They will then continue to preach compliance with the same ineffective course of action despite the fact that, the evidence from the past 50 years has shown that the treatments have actually worsened long-term outcomes. There is an epidemic of psychiatric disability. How can this be, if the treatments are so much better that they were in the past? You are better off having a “psychotic” episode in Nigeria than in the U.S. Why? Because third-world countries have better recovery rates for so-called “schizophrenia” than the United States and other industrialized nations that keep their psychiatric patients “maintained” on the drugs. In the United States, one “psychotic” episode will almost always land you in psychiatric wasteland for the rest of your life. It is psychiatry itself that created the “chronicity” in so-called “mental illness”. "

It is psychiatry itself that created the “chronicity” in so-called “mental illness” !!

Here is more:

"Trying psych med after failed psych med to no avail ought to be a clue that the treatment is a failure. Would you keep driving your car into a brick wall, hoping that an opening would appear rather than turning around and driving in a different direction? If a treatment requires a “belief” that something will work in spite of the evidence to the contrary, then you are practicing something akin to religion. The psychiatric fundamentalists do not care that there is no evidence for these alleged psychiatric “brain disorders”. They don’t care that psychiatric treatment requires a belief that is not based on proof, but they will still call it “science”. Disconnect..."

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I found this here: http://bipolarbabbling.wordpress.com/

I have to add NAMIDEAREST !!

Welcome, Lazy Parents of NAMI!
Posted on October 5th, 2010
Welcome to Nami Dearest, where we hope to help NAMI family members overcome their lazy streak. So get out of the Lazy Boy, get off your fat asses, and work it! It’s time to go NAMI and get your kids put away, where they belong!

"We at NamiDearest have been highly concerned about our wandering mentally ill loved ones as well as those groups who refer to themselves as “survivors of psychiatry”, particularly those from the “antipsychiatry” factions. True to our cause, we have developed a plan to curtail the unacceptable freedoms bestowed upon these people by the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution. " http://www.namidearest.com/

This website and its content is copyright of NamiDearest © NamiDearest 2012. All rights reserved.

It amazing the movement that has been going on since the creation of the internet, and multiplied with the creation of blogs and forums. If one can overcome issues with the help of virtulal friends, why not . I always hoped that people could make well informed decisions with the help of other people on the internet. This revolutions needs to be continued. I cam across this great blog, which really envelopes this theory. SPAM LINK REMOVED by clicking on the link. With this revolution we can overcome many drugs that the FDA has pushed on people.

Check out this site run by alot of survivors, "Mad in America".

The site is designed to serve as a resource and a community for those interested in rethinking psychiatric care in the United States and abroad. We want to provide readers with news, stories of recovery, access to source documents, and the informed writings of bloggers that will further this enterprise.

The bloggers on this site include people with lived experience, peer specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, program managers, social activists, attorneys, and journalists. While their opinions naturally vary, they share a belief that our current system of psychiatric care needs to be vastly improved, and, many would argue, transformed.

This is the epicenter of the The Psychiatric Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement http://www.madinamerica.com

I've worked in the profession in a State monitoring capacity and after my tenure I had no doubt that the profession is absolutely bankrupt of any answers and far often does more harm than good to the victims of mental health services. I found mental health professionals willing to throw clients under any bus they could to cover professional misconduct. I found a group of arrogant, entitled know it alls that I wouldn't let treat my dog. And my advice to anyone that wants to get better, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit from this bogus profession.

Considering the facts that
1. no one gets better in the current treatment schemes
2. People get worse, they get on disability, their life crumbles and they
3. Lose all credibility because once labeled with the stigmatizing labels you lose your life as you knew it.
4. Sick family members use diagnoses against you to discredit you until the day you die no matter what you do to prove the label didn't fit.

I've had two close family members that were directors of mental health centers, both were frightenly maladjusted,one was physically abusive of his wife, the other one infamous for stalking men that didn't want to be with her. Both consider themselves "mr or Ms mental health.... Ironically the stalker one was a marriage family expert...

Copy_Cat wrote:I have to add NAMIDEAREST !!

Welcome, Lazy Parents of NAMI!

"We at NamiDearest have been highly concerned about our wandering mentally ill loved ones as This website and its content is copyright of NamiDearest © NamiDearest 2012. All rights reserved.

Oh yes. I know about NAMI a place where narcissistic family members go to play the martyr role. They booster each others ego about how saintly they are for enduring their "mentally ill loved one" Namimommas love their role as the longsuffering saintly one who put up with a monster. Working at a State goverment level I got lots of calls from namimommas whose seething hatred of their loved one was clear. Their desire to use their loved ones hard life as a platform for attention for themselves was transparent as well. Every gathering we organized to inform public about budget cuts or changes in the system had the Grand Dames of Nami carry out bully platforms about what they wanted and right now. It was nothing but a bunch of smoke and mirrors about how wonderful they were and how awful their sick relative was.

thriving3 wrote:
Oh yes. I know about NAMI a place where narcissistic family members go to play the martyr role. They booster each others ego about how saintly they are for enduring their "mentally ill loved one" Namimommas love their role as the longsuffering saintly one who put up with a monster. Working at a State goverment level I got lots of calls from namimommas whose seething hatred of their loved one was clear. Their desire to use their loved ones hard life as a platform for attention for themselves was transparent as well. Every gathering we organized to inform public about budget cuts or changes in the system had the Grand Dames of Nami carry out bully platforms about what they wanted and right now. It was nothing but a bunch of smoke and mirrors about how wonderful they were and how awful their sick relative was.

Thankyou for confirming its not just NAMI big pharma funding . I have been posting warning about NAMI and it just seemed so wierd that any and almost all information on both the dangers of psychiatric medication and the human rights violations that come with psychiatric treatment for there "loved ones" is like 100% missing from the 1000s of pages of NAMI "facts" (opinions) online.

The American Psychiatric Association publishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), which is widely called the “label bible” of psychiatry. They are currently engaged in a revision from DSM IV to DSM 5. APA plans to publish in 2013.

But the DSM is often used by the mental health industry, and other fields, to take away people’s human rights, and to defame their character...

http://dsm5sucks.com/

This page is realy cool and has lots of good links .