Anti-Anti-Psych wrote:Anonymous wrote:They held my mother down and injected her with valium, against her will. They locked her up in hospital and we didn't see her for months.
And you know what? I'm very glad they did. Before she was sectioned and medicated against her wishes she survived for nearly fifteen years with a severe psychosis that went untreated. She tore her family apart when all they tried to do was support her. She was eventually carted off to hospital when she tried to burn our house down, with me and my brother in it. That's what talking treatments and keeping her away from psychiatry did for her.
She last took medication almost twenty years ago. She came out of hospital well, came off the meds, and got better and better. She's never needed the psychiatry profession since. I am very very glad I still have her with me, and that she didn't manage to kill the lot of us that night.
If psychiatry hadn't forced her hand, I wouldn't be here typing this now.
Psychiatry has a lot to answer for; but it also gave me back my mum. There is good and bad in all things. Don't bury the good by condemning it with the bad.
Just quoting this to emphasize it and to say I 100% agree. Anti-psych idiots, answer the above post. I dare you.
Anyway, why should people believe you? The dark truth about language is that it is mostly a vehicle of falsification. As the film Rashomon shows, from different perspectives reality takes on different forms because we humans have a tendency to invest the phenomenal world with our desires, interests and prejudices. Why should people believe you anymore than they believe the average mental patient, who is accused of bearing false witness to reality? Not that I am saying that you are consciously lying, just that beyond the supervision of the intellect people have a tendency to shape reality for their own convenience, making it fit their own preconceptions, infusing it with their own desires, casting themselves and their enemies in a manner that flatters them and demonizes their opponent, so that the representation bears no resemblance to the reality.
If what you say is true, doesn't justify it anyway. A morally refined society should base itself on an ethic of reciprocity, doing only to others what they would feel comfortable with having done to them. There is of course the exception of dealing with behaviour that imperils others, but even then, care must be taken to make sure that the punishment meted out can be meted out in good conscience, without the kind of deceptions designed to pacify conscience. An incursion into the territory of another's consciousness with potentially torturous and toxic drugs overreaches the limits of what is morally acceptable by some distance.
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