Honestly it was a nightmare. I made the following post https://www.reddit.com/r/confessions/comments/ouy6co/having_a_date_to_end_my_life_has_made_me_happier

And was bombarded with abuse. What is so baffling about someone being happier knowing an end to their life is in their own hands?

The Universal List of Common - Harm Producing, Ethically Wrong and Law-Violating Psychiatric Practices.

This list is composed mostly by me, and other wonderful contributors in this community.

I present to you - The Universal list of common controversial, harmful, and law-violating psychiatric practices.

You are welcome to comment with additional topics, add to existing topics, or point out things that need editing

Let's start.

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• *There is virtually 0 accountability for the psychiatrist. No recourse if their treatment fucks up the patient, except in the rarest of circumstances.
• *The industry is largely motivated by profit, while this is the usual standard, it is unarguably harmful and destructive, making money out of human suffering, human lives, fates, future, time, health, and vitality, on their literal own body and mind, under financial matters and influence, is not moral by any means, nothing justifies this, a universal monthly salary should be all there is to it.
• *The guidance for psychiatrists in training and their diagnostic criteria are largely influenced by big pharma.
• *Many psychiatrists assume they know more about what's going on in the patient's head than the patient does, and undermine his perceptions, denial of patient testimonies, this leads to long-term reductions in patient's confidence In his own perception, dissociation, sense of hopelessness, lack of system justice, sense of being unheard.
• *Often a patient is not taken at their word, and a psychiatrist will make assumptions that contradict what the patient is telling them.
• *The brain is nowhere near fully mapped and the mechanisms are largely still unknown. Psych meds are nothing more than guesswork by the end of it and the adverse effects may be far more dangerous than some are willing to admit.
• *Absence is sometimes counted as a success... if a patient stops coming in for treatment, they may be marked as 'cured' or improved, as a burden dealt with, at least in public institutions.
• *The criteria for diagnosis are such that virtually anybody can be labeled with a wide array of conditions.
• *Criteria for diagnosis are largely influenced by big pharma.
• *Often, doctors can not agree with each other on a diagnosis, indicating a failure of the diagnostic criteria.
• * Involuntary institution, use of physical force and violence, restraint, banishment from patient's own environment.
• * Forced drugging, poly-drugging, silencing deviance, of normal and natural human reactions, pacifying unwanted behavior, producing extreme trauma, mental and physical harm in the way.
• * Never-ending Voyeurism that does not respect basic human dignity.
• * Using threats to bend those who do not "what is good for them", forcing voluntary hospitalizations through threats of involuntary commitment
• * Catastrophizing the negative emotions of those with lower status in society, leading to horrific consequences and unneeded interventions
• * The constant patient "breaking" and "reconstruction" for "fun" and malevolent reasons, this acted out by the psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, staff very frequently.
• * The endless gaslighting to parents, patients, and children, controlling the narrative whenever it feels like it, yes, there may be information that is best kept secret or untold, to keep hopes up, but it goes much further than this.
• * Iatrogenic brain damage from toxic medications, brain shrinkage, shortening in life expectancy, reduction quality in of life, cognitive dysfunction, functional connectivity dysfunction, disinhibition, medication-induced PSSD, Anhedonia, loss of emotions, enjoyment or motivation, loss of self-awareness, Chronic Depersonalization, SSRI and Anti-psychotics induced Apathy, inability to connect with people or feel love, metabolic syndromes, delirium, neuroleptic malignant syndromes, visual and sensory disturbances, loss of personal identity, hormonal complications, of course, worsening or development of psychiatric symptoms that they're supposed to treat, the list goes on.
• * Clinical studies done behind backdoors without full awareness of the participants because they accepted universal terms in a mental health hospital environment.
• * Using literal "sick" (in need of help) and vulnerable people as human lab rats for clinical studies, drug studies, in mental health hospitals.
• * Advertisement of medication for sponsorship, biased big-pharma funding, doctor mediated ghostwriting, crooked payments to clinicians, positively biased studies written funded specifically for marketing.
• * Selective reportage of information revealed to authorities or lack of actual higher supervision agencies for detecting human rights violations within the systems and enforcing human rights laws, serious lack of resource allocation to this matter.
• *Nurses, social workers, Staff, having full access to patient databases in certain institutes.
• * Constant dehumanization, reduction in human spirituality, labeling, shaming, stigmatizing, disruption of self-agency and independence, suppression of individuality and non-conformism, holding children and individuals so dissociated, or does who do not improve to continue just existing in the hospital indefinitely.
• * Tying and Strapping patients involuntarily, sometimes left in the same state for hours at a time, as punishment or restrain.
• * Giving patients literal chemical lobotomies with no exaggeration intended, by using antipsychotics, SSRIs, Benzos, ECT, and long-term affecting injections, producing frontal-lobe syndromes, apathy-syndromes, that can literally ruin a person's life over one single dose, these are not always reversible, will absolutely lead to wide range damage to emotional and cognitive functions, reduce the patient's awareness of it's own condition and the unimaginable damage caused to him, this will most likely be taken as a symptom of his "illness", doctors give these out like candies, without even warning the patients of the harm possibility which is almost 100%, this is the intended effect. heck, they may even be unable to notice the crimes they have committed upon their own patients, leaving them completely out on their own, damaged beyond belief, with a voice lost and immense, indescribable loss of hope in those who are supposed to take care of him.
• * Collaboration with authorities such as parents, teachers, school systems, to punish their own children or abuse them and produce needless suffering and mental harm.
• * "Trapping" of patients until they say, adapt or do what the doctors want to hear or see, "Do or else" style of entrapment where a doctor is demanding something of a patient and they must conform to show some kind of improvement or whatnot, or they will be denied rights, punished, degraded, treated differently, kept for longer times and so on.
• * Punishing children by forced social isolation in confined spaces, to torture or punish them, which all it does is create more harm and trauma.
• * Priming people into long-term or permanent disability using toxic drugs and harmful procedures, severe worsening of long-term clinical outcomes, creating abnormal states of the CNS that impair homeostasis or self-healing, hindering potential recovery.
• * Claiming only psychiatrists\psychologists can understand studies, books, academic sources, as a kind of status-gatekeeping and fear of undermining them in their own profession.
• * No matter how tragic the results they witness, they will still - defend their prescription.
• * Inducing desensitization, apathy, passivity, forced conformism,  as a treatment goal, indifference to life circumstances, deflation and devaluation, and denial of patient's ambitions, goals, positive self-confidence or self-standards.
• * Inability to learn from the past and history, a profession that will not acknowledge its own history or stay behind anything, while continuing to work in similar passions, this is called Systematic Justification.
• * Prolonging hospitalization times to gain insurance money over patients.
• * Promoting patented drugs with extremely high brand price by claiming mechanisms of actions or benefits that are not actually shown in any legitimate study or have actual evidence, and are not more effective than anything else that came before it.
• * Co-Workers who do no speak up for truth, justice, or very very wrong moral decisions, out of fear of exposure or potential conflict with the higher-ups, or fear for their employment\professional image.
• * Researchers are not required to publicize negative data and lack of efficiency.
• * Medicating young children, and even sometimes babies while they cannot give informed consent
• * This irrational need to pass generational, theological trauma and adversity by doctor's projection of personal fears, false diagnosis predicament (showing over-concern over symptoms or prognosis), Micro-bullying over getting better or showing different results than firstly anticipated by the doctor, transference of harmful personal concerns, this kind of destructive behavior when patients show higher knowledge or very fast unexpected "improvement", using patients to answer unmet needs of admiration/love, power-trips and diagnosis-high when they think to themselves "aha!" when they think some behavior matches their theory, this sense of win when they finally are confident in their diagnosis and can clearly say - this person is "X", stupid unrespectful smirks and grins, "adding fuel to the fire" - messing around with patients in acute mental distress by mocking their claims, behavior, beliefs, or even adding in onto their theories/fears. I know some of these may come from good intentions, "authenticity" or just as a joke but those are very harmful, especially in sensitive individuals or those in acute situations, this has to stop.

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"The paradox of mental healthcare" - The undeniable need to keep, and create "sickness" and "disorder" in this industry, to generate work, profit, and ensure patients are kept chained to the system,

"If I earn money from a philanthropic activity (medical practice, bureaucratic office, religious ministry, any kind of public service) then my own interest is going to subconsciously push me into not solving anybody's problem, so as to keep my income flowing."

*It is more profitable to interminably treat a disease, than permanently curing it*

Physicians and psychologists who will truly cure humanity must perform from a self-effacing ethos, renouncing to any kind *extra-corrupted-none-essential* profit from their activity, and with the idea that their work should not be needed ever again. If there is going to be any future for civilization, this is the way.

Let me explain, This leads to a few things -

1. By having a patient "cured" they basically lose the patient and the persistent flow of income that comes with him, since if a patient is healthy, stable, and functional, there is no reason for him to come back and keep paying.
2. "Fear" of the patient functioning "too well", regressing treatment to keep them just un-functional, and dependent enough.
3. Forces Big-pharma and the industry to "gatekeep" "too effective" treatments, so they can keep charging money over treatments that do not work or work partially.
4. Over-diagnosis, creation of problems To have "disorders" to treat and produce money and work from, Invention of problems in the patients that do not actually require any kind of treatment.
5. Under-treatment by holding back potentially actually benefiting interventions or medications to create dependency in the patient.
6. By holding the medical narrative, and by using status-based authority, they can simply keep the ultra-compliant, naive, trusting, dependant, unaware, disabled, or just patients who have developed a long-term relationship with the doctor almost indefinitely bound to the system.
7. By prolonging a patient's dependence in the system, as long as remission/relief is not met they can basically make sure someone is another ever going money-making tool.
8. Producing unnecessary "maintenance" sessions to keep patients keep coming, bound to pay extra (or making money off) for unneeded sessions, to hold their medication refills "rentable", or to gaslight them that they are still dysfunctional enough that they still need to see a doctor in a steady routine, even if they reached steady, healthy and functional state.

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Repeated Basic Human Rights violations. - let's go over it quickly:

These are taken from the official US human rights list for example.

1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

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Freedom is taken, equality cannot exist with assigned social disorder titles, ranks, lesser treatments, autonomy is taken, people are being forced into treatment, patients wear different degrading outfits, have a limited range of mobility and rights.

2. Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person

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Yeah, no, psychiatric medications are the third most leading cause of death worldwide, these drugs reduce life expectancy, mortality is lower in those treated.

3. No one shall be held in slavery

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One of the Definitions of slavery is - "A condition in which one human being was owned by another or by the state."

Do what you will with it.

4. No one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.

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Nope, it's extremely common, it's almost a huge part of their job.

5. Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

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Psychiatrists have enormous power over patients, they constantly degrade and treat them as lesser, everything indicates that, EVERYTHING.

6. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile.

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Well, that's just forced involuntary institution, it happens extremely frequently for no real or legitimate reasons.

7. Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and Most will likely any criminal charge against him.

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No, you are treated with a lesser voice and impact over the "healthy", you actually may be more likely to get punished and silenced over showing your voice.

8. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

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That's simply psychiatric diagnosis for you, the best description.

9. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

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Again, nope, bullshit.

10. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

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Should I really go over this one? It's actually sickening thinking about this.

11. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

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Well, what is a psychiatric diagnosis and Institution if not that?

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This is the only profession where if you take 20 psychiatrists from different places and ask them to diagnose someone blindly (without being given previous information about the said patient)

It is very likely that most will give a different diagnosis with a complete lack of consistency in everything, write different medications, and they probably won't even trust their colleague's judgments.

Even 1 false diagnosis should be accountable as *complete failure* and maltreatment if they decide to treat it, it means the entire system is broken and unreliable because it's a repeatable error, it's insane. (But there isn't an actual way to even confirm a diagnosis, it's all technically false)

Being in the wrong place, at the wrong time can SEAL your actual future because someone out there decided to believe you have something in a single random moment.

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Forced psychiatry fits the legal definition of terrorism -

"Terrorism is the use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government or its citizens to further certain political or social objectives."

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This profession keeps running, creating harm, violates basic human rights, forcibly drugs people, causes disability, trauma, shame, stigma, violence, you know the rest.

Something very very wrong is happening that goes in silence, if this is not occurring in your country, location, or institution, then it's happening somewhere else, these are repeating testimonies over decades, around the entire world.

You can call this list - The C.A.C.P Manual -  The Counterprogramming-Against-Coercive-Psychiatry Manual

This is it, for now, tell me what you think if you personally experienced any of these if there are any other points to add, or just discuss.

Composed and written by -" /u/FishAstronaunt***"***

Thanks.

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Sharing of personal experience with autism/giftedness, a few thoughts around meltdowns, shutdowns, autistic burn-outs. Incorporating insights gained thanks to the weak central coherence theory as well as the intense world theory.

So, I realized today that the whole matter around perceiving details everywhere is really beyond just the sight and sound, since those are more of the "intellectualized" senses, top of the iceberg ( the head ), where the biggest organ in the body is the skin and there is proprioception and interoception too ( perception of the body in space as well as how one feels internally, organs and such ).
And, given that these internal and quite intimate manners of being in the world are so immediate and our direct access to the world, it is difficult to take a step back and maybe realize how the perception processes, "reconstruction" the world in our minds to make sense of it, might be - when being more strongly focused on details for autistic folks - be quite a very different experience than that of the majority of people who go from the general to the detail, whereas it is the opposite mostly for autistic people...

Hence the overwhelm ( I had many extreme burn-outs in the past ) from dealing with an amount of details beyond just the ones in texts I read or sounds I hear which is but the tip of the iceberg, but entirety of the very experience of even how it feels to breathe and the autonomic processes in the entirety body and nervous system and brain.

And well - the free Wim Hof Method app is the one thing that really helps me with all of that.

I have a bad and strange habit of spinning myself in circles for long times(sometimes) it's really hard to stop that and it's consuming my time and the urge to do that is distracting me from important things how to help myself to stop this, and why am I doing this ?

I go to therapist about 4 years until now,I feel very ashamed and feel stigmatized too much feel shy from the psychiatrist office secretary and people see me entering the clinic and from my mother even from the doctor how to decrease this horrible feeling?

I used to abuse combination of caffeine modafinil and theophylline a year ago. And and I'm getting its withdrawal from same year. Withdrawal is same like of caffeine. It's been a year that I haven't been healed . I'm drowsy all the day very poor focus and concentration , sleepy all the time and my pressure is always low. I don't properly remember anything about this year. I had used herbal medicine like ashwagandha Gingko biloba bacopa minorie but nothing helped me. Anyone knows what really happened to me. Does anyone knows which medicine can help me

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SUCIDE TRIGGER WARNING.

On Saturday night I took a fistful of Clonazepam, doxylamine, duloxetine and chased it with a litre of Smirnoff. I intended to end my life.

I have always always been afraid of death, but in that moment I wasn’t afraid anymore. I was looking forward to the peace that would come with slipping into sleep and then dying - the calm that I felt for the moments I can remember where so, freeing. Like calm I have never had before.

Fortunately for me, I have an amazing friend who knew something was not right. She came over to my place and when she couldn’t get in or in contact with me, she called the police and ambulance who did.

I was sent to the emergency department when it all went down and I don’t remember anything from after 5pm Saturday until I woke up on Sunday around Midday.

The doctors and nurses at Monash Clayton Emergency Department where that that I’ve never seen before. Uncaring and have no empathy. They kept telling me that I was being placed under involuntary assessment due to the suicide attempt, but gave me no documentation about what it meant nor a discussion held with me about what the next steps where. It was like they assumed control of me without my knowing.

They had a chaperone watching me go to the toilet. Even when I wanted to move my bowel. Obviously, I had the runs. I’m assuming it’s a side effect of the medication I took.

So - when the chaperon turned her back, I legged it.

I had been making plans all under her watchful eye and scoping out how I could leave. After all they had told me that I was to be transferred to a private hospital because I wasn’t yet “on involuntary hold”. But - they didn’t want me to leave. I kept asking for documentation and none was forth coming. So I just needed to get past the chaperone and I was free.

But, it was not to be. As the chaperone turned her back, I grabbed my bag and made a run for it.

I got all the way to the exit door and I could hear the PA system calling a code grey (unarmed threat) when a security guard tried to stop me.

But because I’m cunning like a fox, I went under his armpit and ran.

I found a taxi at the front door and jumped in. Luckily I still had my phone and wallet. So I paid the driver up front and made him step in it back home.

When I arrived home, I knew that I couldn’t stay as they would send the police to look for me - I was taking their threats seriously, I called another friend and asked if I could hide out at her place for a while.

Unfortunately I would make a rubbish fugitive as the police tracked me down within two hours and brought me back to Monash.

I tried to tell them that I’m under the care of a private psychiatrist and that I want to be transferred out of this hell hole - P Block, in case you’re not familiar, is the Psych unit at Monash and they just dump everyone into one ward. Men, women, high dependency, low dependency, rapists, depressives, maniacs, the whole lot. In one large locked ward.

I feel that I should have the right to be moved to a private facility of my or my Psychiatrists choosing, but I’m being refused to speak with my psychiatrist or Psychologist or even my GP.

I am not sure what to do now to advocate for myself.

Can someone please help me or point me in a direction for someone who can help me.

Thank You.

I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Peter Gøtzsche on my psychology podcast. We discuss the failings of psychiatry. He's a fierce critic, and I find his criticisms to be totally grounded in the reality of the situation. I'm happy to share this episode with you here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgP1NXSpbg0

Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs- https://mindfreedom.org/resources/harm-reduction-guide-to-coming-off-psychiatric-drugs/

The Icarus Project (Fireweed Collective) and Freedom Center’s 52-page illustrated guide gathers the best information we’ve come across and the most valuable lessons we’ve learned about reducing and coming off psychiatric medication. Based in more than 10 years work in the peer support movement, this Guide is used internationally by individuals, families, professionals, and organizations, and is available a growing number of translations. Includes info on mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, risks, benefits, wellness tools, psychiatric drug withdrawal, information for people staying on their medications, detailed Resource section, and much more. A ‘harm reduction’ approach means not being pro- or anti- medication, but supporting people where they are at to make their own decisions, balancing the risks and benefits involved. Written by Will Hall, with a 55-member health professional Advisory Board providing research assistance and more than 50 collaborators involved in developing and editing. The guide has photographs and art throughout, and a beautiful original cover painting by Jacks McNamara.

They have support groups on Zoom:

https://fireweedcollective.org/support-groups/

I wrote this in a comment in this thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracyNOPOL/comments/ktankb/chemical_lobotomy/gj2mnix/?context=3
But I thought more people would be interested to hear it and fill in with their thoughts

About psychiatry being a pseudo-science used to keep people in a "normal mind frame", one functional for the system.

"Not only is it part of management of a population into, for the system, functional and non-obstructive ways of thinking and being. Money also plays a huge role. Of course the pharmaceutical companies making psych meds are all to happy to have long term, often life long customers. Other than that the state also has an interest in providing "treatment" that is at the cost of consultations and pills. Real holistic treatment would require much more effort, time and resources.

Instead, what is being done is sort of warehousing of peoples suffering and putting them "on hold" so to speak for years or without end, by just numbing their emotions and problems with the help of chemicals. Of course the pills does help some people but I suspect a big factor is the persons own intelligence and relationships, in making use of the respite the drugs offer to improve other things and work on themselves that in turn will make a change. That is however not within the scope of treatment, pills is cheap and good enough to tick the box. Not everyone is lucky to have that context though or able enough to do that for themselves. None the less the state can say they have given you treatment and that's good enough. Maybe they will give you some few sessions of CBT or such, saying it's proven clinically to be the most efficient therapy (not saying that because of resources, they are looking for the most efficient therapy that can be performed in the time span of 10 sessions, so that more deep and initially slower forms of therapy doesn't stand a chance to prove their worth. It also depends on where you set the bar for having been made well again. Usually it is: can you work again and provide for yourself?)

Just the fact that psychiatry developed as a field after WW1 when soldiers came back with "shell shock" (ptsd) and the state had to show that they were treating these guys. Thus developed this mass treatment method with pills, as it was the cheapest way, and society couldn't afford anything more fancy. And maybe didn't want to as some of the soldiers were so damaged and maimed they served no function in society anyway.

Also by pinpointing the problem inside of the individual in the present moment, in the form of a chemical imbalance, you very conviniently avoid a few things. You do not have to go back in time very deeply to figure out WHY you might have these symptoms. You do not have to look at the persons context or pretend that the larger shape of society plays a role, the problem is after all in the persons neurobiology. And you don't really have to deal with emotions because it's called "symptoms", so it offers the clinician a sober and detached approach, not asking them to be real healers and soul soothers, just doctors."

Hey guys

Wanted to do a check up unbiased based on my personality to see if i have an issue or am normal.

Below describes me in general:

Someone who is curious, thinks alternatively from most people (like when people say why, its why not?), or they like think ' wonder what will happen if I say this/do this, what is the reaction that will occur from this)

Ability to also allow something/someone mean alot / nothing at all in instances. E.g care for person or interest in a hobby and follow it religiously for years and suddenly turn off.

Is this normal?

I'm worried this might violate the subreddit content, if so I apologize.

I was wondering if anyone would appreciate a blog that help job seekers with mental illness find work opportunities that accommodate their particular difficulties.

I have an opportunity to write creatively as part of my current role and wanted to do something close to my heart and meaningful to the community.

I understand that many members of those communities I'm seeking advice from do not regard their conditions as an illness which I respect. Apologies for any offense.

I'm looking to work on a new project, and I'd like it to be something free that could help people. I'm open to any ideas. I really want to know if there's anything that you all think would be helpful.