Posted by Squiggles on December 3, 2006, at 16:40:46
In reply to Re: Illness increases vulnerability to the irratio » Squiggles, posted by Quintal on December 3, 2006, at 16:22:49
> So, for those of us who are not actively psychotic and do have access to inetrent resources, may I again ask what freedoms we would have (if any) to request specific medicines or experiment with approaches outside psychiatry under your/Dr. Torrey's proposed dictatorship? Do you have a manifesto or anything we could examine?You have all the freedom you want. But
freedom without knowledge is an adolescent's
dream.
>
> I share your concerns for the vulnerable people who slip through the net of our current mental health services entirely, but my concern is for the majority of people posting here who do not fall in to that category and who's basic freedom would *seem* to be severely restricted by the ideas you have proposed.Some people here have died it seems from
accidents or suicide. For most, if you
can type legibly and make sense on the computer,
you need not worry about severe psychosis.It's funny how someone with apendicitis is
rushed to the hospital and loses his freedom
under anaesthesia, but the freedom of someone who is ready to jump off a bridge or drown their children, is considered inalienable, by the
anti-psychiatrists. I think it reveals a hidden
antipathy, perhaps even fear for the mentally ill.
But they are just as treatable as if they would have heart disease-- the mental illness originating or affecting the brain.Squiggles
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