News of Anti-Psych Forum

Hi everyone,

Here's a copy of a recent article in the Washington Post looking at why do people labelled with schizophrenia do so much better in poor
countries, such India, than rich countries (like ours). They do NOT
mention the obvious, in my view, that psycho-meds keep you locked in to your symptoms. They also say some other pretty awful things, but it's a fascinating article about some very solid data from WHO etc that ...

I get so sick of hearing the same old drug company advertising platitude that mental distress is caused by chemical imbalances.
Heres some of the hard to find research into the environmental causes of mental illness. I say it's hard to find because drug companies wont pour hundreds of millions of dollars into research of cultural causes of mental illness simply because there is no money in it for them.
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In a fascinating study ...

Q: Doc, are most psychiatric diagnoses right,
or are most psychiatric diagnoses wrong?

A: Um, uh, well... we profess a rationale for everything,
but the answer to that inquiry is clearly out of our gamut.
:roll:

..yo and thanks for the soapbox; I'll be sure to click on a few ads

I am preparing an Advanced Psychiatric Directive that I got from the Bazelon Center. In it, it asks if I would prefer any alternatives to hospitalization. I didn't know there were any. What are they? I'd like to know. Secondly, I am wondering if an advanced psychiatric directive can override Assisted Outpatient Treatment (forced drugging)? Any help would be great. Shrink resistant, I would like to hear from you in particular. You have the right ...

I've been reading about all of these people who are getting fired for comments they make online... I figured it'd be fun. I work at a coffee shop, and now I'm going to talk about how evil it is.

LINK!

Basically, I've got people, some of them in high school, coming to me and getting 2, 3, 6! shots of espresso a day. And we find little ways to dress them up so they taste ...

In the arcane practitioning of "people judging", there is one rule of thumb first and foremost: if Tom was a nut case yesterday then Tom'll be a nut case tomorrow, UNconditionally. And by extension, if Tom was a nut case a quarter century ago then Tom'll be a nut case in a quarter century hence, UNconditionally. (Replace 'Tom' with any human name and the truism still holds.)

This first-and-foremost Rule of The Arcana ensures the ...

I am currently working on a book revolved around short term mental instability cases. One case that I cannot find much information on is quite hard to title because I keep getting different terms. Basically, it is the act of murder in which the murderer suffers froma few moments of insanity. There is no prior symptoms of insanity or instability before or after the incident. If anyone has any information or cases you may have ...

Do you suffer from mental illness, delusions perhaps?

Or are you Tom Cruise?

Ok, so I was on risperidone for a little over a year. At the time I started - i felt like I needed it, and actually requested it. It had worked for me before and I had reached an all-time low. I felt that at any moment I would lose touch with reality - completely. After a few weeks I felt 'normal' again. And by normal I mean that I had a better grasp on ...

First, I lived in London for 9 years, and there I saw a psychiatrist once and he was very helpful, with insight.

Okay, so I went to a psychiatrist here in New Mexico some years ago... I was having a hard time and I was thinking some insight would be good.

Now, when I went to see the psychiatrist in London, I took all sorts of things with me to prove that what I was ...