Posted by Christ_empowered on January 2, 2015, at 13:10:48
In reply to Re: psychiatry is an ougrowth of society » baseball55, posted by herpills on January 2, 2015, at 10:10:42
I'm not the only one who's had terrible experiences w/ mental health. The anti-psychiatry movement of the 70s didn't die, it just kind of went into a deep slumber...
...books such as "Mad in America" and "Anatomy of an Epidemic" and "The Myth of The Chemical Cure" are bringing back a new, more nuanced sort of anti-psychiatry/critical psychiatry movement. Docs in Vermont have come up with the crazy idea that maybe people w/ schizophrenia need to talk about their problems nad take less neuroleptic. Imagine that...
Anyway, some people love their docs. These people are usually at least respectable and white. I'm treated better now in part because I"m white, male, and my people are relatively affluent, at least for this area.I can't cite studies, but there is data that would indicate that social class, race, gender, etc. influence diagnosis and treatment. Diagnosis, in particular, is a political decision. Non-white "crazy" people = schizophrenia. White, affluent "crazy" people=bipolar I. See what I'm saying here?
Public health is a lot like private practice, just...officially based on the recovery model. Lots of people on disability of some sort, probably more SSI than SSDI. Lots of high dose AP/AAP drugs. Are the patients more severely ill? I don't know. They do deal with people in jails and group homes, but...what of the outpatients?
Social class is a huge issue wherever you go, probably more in the US than in many European countries where, you know, poor people have rights and such.
In my case, I was poor, ugly, and stupid. I'm none of those things now, except poor, but I don't live in poverty because of my newly affluent parents. That makes people--including mental health people--angry.
Szasz wrote this book I have yet to read..."Psychiatric Slavery" . I like the concept, and I think he's right. Havnig been left dead eyed for a couple years by psychiatric torture (at a private, for profit mental hospital), I DO NOT think that shrinks are all helpful, happy people.
Lots of mental health people sexually exploit their patients. There are cases of straight up rape, usually male psychiatrists and female patients. In my case, my docs "made an example" out of me. My neighbors now know a little too much about my psych history. Wonder why...
...could it be because I filed a medical board complaint? See what I'm saying? "Trouble makers" ALWAYS get the worst "treatment," and there doesn't seem to be any escape.
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