The Psychiatric System

This post seeks to expose the secret or not so secret facts about psychiatry and what it can do to you.

Psychiatric Power #1:
What you say doesn’t count.

Psychiatrists have the power to declare that what you say is just your imagination. Their position of authority makes them plausible by many and they will be able to invalidate any justification on your behalf. The reason? Whatever a person of unsound mind says will not count by the very definition of the diagnosis, and psychiatrists have the power to make this declaration of anyone. If taken to court you will to every practical effect have no say.

Psychiatric Power #2:
Even if what you say did count, medication can shut you up.

A psychiatrist can force anyone to take medication against their will. This medication can muddle up your thoughts, deprive you of your thinking ability, and completely shut you up through the effect of medication.

Psychiatric Power #3:
We can isolate you from the rest of the world through hospitalization.

Just when you had the power of making that meaningful friend on the outside world with whom to share the horrors of psychiatry your psychiatrist can isolate you by keeping you on a psychiatric ward where you may stay for weeks, months, or even years. Everyone on the psychiatric wards is known to psychiatrists, and, to a great extent, patients come under their control as a whole while interactions with their families remain limited.

Psychiatric Power #4:
Plot against us and we will tell everyone you are mad.

People who speak up in the open against psychiatry are often given a diagnosis and brought under the psychiatric system, for instance by being accused of paranoia.

Psychiatric Power #5:
Medication can make you crazy and make you do strange things.

Psychiatric medication itself and abrupt changes in psychiatric medication can make you do crazy things. Psychiatrists won’t blame you for it, but will keep you under their control and say it is the fault of a disease they invented. Some psychiatric medication can be prescribed by a general practitioner.

Psychiatric Power #6:
Those who do not collaborate are themselves at risk of ending up as patients.

Family and friends that collaborate with psychiatric patients to dismantle the psychiatric system are themselves at risk of being brought under the system under the pretext of them having a psychiatric disorder.

Psychiatric Fact #7:
People who work in the psychiatric industry know these facts, but need to earn a living.

Why are there so many positive testimonials about mental health on the Internet?

Many sites such as YouTube and Quora feature positive testimonials related to mental health experiences. Why is this so?

Basically, the people telling the stories here fall into two categories.

(i) People in the system whose job depends on the drugging of psychiatric patients. These will be out to tell you more and more lies so that more and more patients will ensure more and more work for themselves as a group.

(ii) Psychiatric patients that have made their way out of psychiatric hospitals where phones and computers are disallowed or can be taken away from patients thus leaving them alone by themselves with nobody to share the abuse done to them outside of visiting hours on these wards. Heavily drugged with medication, these patients on these wards could hardly even talk or write anyways, even if phones were allowed. Plus the excuse that a phone could harm a patient or that a patient could do something bad on the internet means phones on psychiatric wards will be taken at or forbidden. So, psychiatric patients that have made their way out of hospital and are on low doses of suitable medication and are thus able to think on these low doses, these patients play nice, so as to avoid increases in medication and avoid having to have another terrible experience and waste time in hospital due to a psychiatrist deciding this at a meeting with the patient upon detecting hostility towards the psychiatric system I behalf of the patient. So these patients lie about how the psychiatric system benefited them so as to obtain these benefits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

How does psychiatry change the nature of your social interactions?

Suppose you happen to have fallen into the traps of the psychiatric system. In this case you will be bound to meet regularly with your psychiatrist.

Prior to your periodically scheduled meeting you will have one of the following views, which will most likely depend on how recently you’ve been hospitalized by your psychiatrist. In most cases, the longer the amount of time that has gone by since the last hospitalization the likelier the event that the patient temporarily withdraws at least part of the experience from the mind, although this temporary forgetting may also at times be simply a side effect of medication. Needles to say, hospitalization is always  a horrible experience, and is inevitably bound to stick to the mind.

View X: Your psychiatrist intends to hospitalize you, increase your medication or add to your medication causing undesired side effects, or your psychiatrist intends to have you attend a day centre where you will suffer from much boredom and a deep sense of time waste and from which nevertheless you might also suffer further hospitalizations, or try to move you out of your home and into a residential community where you will be under psychiatric control on a heavy or very heavy basis.

View Y: The psychiatrist intends to do none of these.

In either case you will have two options to choose from (unless option B is not available of course):

Option A: Go to the psychiatric appointment by yourself.

In this case, your psychiatrist could hospitalize you for no reason. The psychiatrist could simply say they are of the opinion that you should be hospitalized and give you no reason for such hospitalization if asked. The psychiatrist could also make up a reason, say, to a relative, saying you did something but were too unwell to remember. This could lead you to want to try and go with option B so as to try to have a witness. You could even go to the psychiatric appointment alone and say absolutely nothing as a means of protest, for instance against the psychiatric system, and your psychiatrist could still hospitalize you for the very same reason.

Option B: Go to the psychiatric appointment with a relative.

This could be the best option, BUT:

This means that the psychiatrist will be able to play taking sides between being on the patient’s side and being on the relative’s side, trying to make both speak in turn, with the sole purpose of trying to find an area of conflict. This is done by trying to show disapproval whenever the patient and the family member claim they are getting along. The patient will be brought to fear hospitalization while the relative may also be brought to fear some other personalized, tacit, threat, or may be tinkered into trusting the psychiatrist, at least on the surface, while acting as though bringing themselves to rest upon the psychiatrist’s say for some random problem at hand, perhaps even while the relative claims or admits not really seeing the described problem as a real problem. This way, both the patient and the relative are brought by means of fear tactics by the psychiatrist to take turns at speaking and bringing something to the surface under pressure, and this may result in the hospitalization of the patient or in a missed opportunity for the patient to have the psychiatrist lower their medication. All in all, the patient may be also brought to fear both the psychiatrist and the relative, creating an atmosphere of escalating mistrust, fear, and as a result, loneliness, not to mention the negative effect of medication and hospitalization.

Result H:

It could happen that as a result of your appointment you get hospitalized:

You will be traumatized by the experience, especially if you reached a state where you thought you could trust your psychiatrist for something. The staff will be pushing for you to speak up. You will not speak up because you will know that opening your mouth will mean saying something negative about how you ended up in hospital, and this will be on your mind.

You won’t speak about it with patients because you know that eventually, being alone, they will tell what you have told them, to make conversation, to someone, and eventually those very words will reach their psychiatrist, hence your psychiatrist, who will ensure repercussions take place for speaking negatively, or more precisely, badly, about them.

Once outside hospital you could thus try to speak about your situation with a new acquaintance, but this acquaintance eventually will be introduced to your relative and through your relative the rumor will reach your psychiatrist who will use the excuse that taking badly about psychiatry means you are unwell which in turn will be used to ensure the repercussions of hospitalization and increases in medication are ensued. After all, no psychiatrist wants psychiatry and their name to lose face.

 

 

Social Knowledge

A social group is made of drives. One such drive is the drive to build a world of thoughts. This world feeds us pleasure and must grow day by day to make us feel happy.

A drive that comes to you is wanting others to think the right things. You know, the truth, and nobody can see or comment on your truths. You want to share your truths. You want them to persist, without them being attacked, you don’t want them to collapse, but when they collapse, you want them to collapse gracefully, leaving fruits that fix whatever was wrong and lead to more seedlings that will develop more branches of thoughts to be laid out.

As a mathematician there has always been a feeling within me that there should be something right to think. That there is something you can see or be brought to see and say, I didn’t realize it, but it really is that way.

Antipsychotic medication makes it frustrating, because you know you could generate your own point of view and contribute it, but you cannot. And when others share their own, you may be so drained in medication you cannot even follow it.

Sometimes you want others to think like yourself. You know you have thoughts that could make society think better. You think that by sharing your thoughts and the thought framework you live in, others can contribute, making you understand more. You want to elaborate those thoughts and combine ideas from what others have said to you into thoughts of your own.

Others are happy with where they’re at. They are happy knowing what framework of thoughts other people hold and are happy making them swim in it by contributing ideas for them to develop.

These are the managers and benevolent fathers of tomorrow.

Psychiatry and Patient Employment

Needless to say, psychiatric medication, especially those medications labeled as antipsychotic medication, can make you so tired you cannot move and your thought processes so cloudy you won’t even be able to think to yourself or communicate with others. These are only some of the effects these meds will have on you if taken. So even those psychiatric patients that could be qualified to work at the jobs and activities they were able to work at before engaging with psychiatric medication won’t be able to do so again after taking the meds unless their psychiatrist can take them off their medication by tapering it off slowly. Unfortunately, no psychiatrist will ever be willing or fully committed to doing that.

The reason for that is quite simple: taking a patient off medication would mean loss of profit for the pharmaceutical companies that produce medication, and these companies exert pressure on psychiatrists to keep prescribing their medication. Furthermore, a patient who does not take medication would not need to see their psychiatrists and psychiatrists themselves would lose clients and make themselves redundant. No psychiatrist would want that.

Besides the problem of the negative impact of psychiatric medication on the performance of a psychiatric patient as a working person, most employers would not be willing to give such a person a job knowing that such employee would have to make themselves absent from work about once every week or every two weeks to attend their periodic appointment with their psychiatrist scheduled to take place even when the patient sees no purpose to the appointment, and psychiatrists will not be willing to see their patients over the weekend instead of during week days to take into account the fact that a patient may want to work as well. In a way, a patient’s need to work conflicts with the psychiatrists’ need to hold meetings with their patients and keep them under the social confines of the circles made up of their psychiatric patients and psychiatric staff . This includes the fact that psychiatrists can decide to hospitalize their patients at any time and no employee or group of clients will be willing to make exceptions for these hospitalizations which take place unpredictably at the psychiatrist’s discretion.

This means many psychiatric patients need to seek unemployment benefits at the expense of taxpayers whose taxes ends up covering also expensive pharmaceutical medication profiting practical companies and a swarm of services including psychiatrists, hospital staff, and people posing as rehabilitation personnel whose economic interest in keeping these patients unable to do proper jobs due to their situation in the psychiatric system and psychiatric medication is well motivated.