10-25-2012, 12:39 PM
I'm late to this thread, so sorry if everything I say is out of context. I finally read this article, and I wanted to clap with delight that someone could so eloquently arrange my own thought process since I gave the bird to the psychiatry industry and began pursuing alternative methods of treating the chemical imbalance in my brain.
I used to be on a whole cocktail of pills, and had so many diagnosis given to me by so many different shrinks that practically the entire DSM could be represented in my person (I have actually read the DSM, not to mention doing my own extensive research on modern psychology). My favorite was "Oppositional Defiant Disorder", which was tacked on simply because I decided to explain to the panel of psychiatrists reviewing me why their analysis was invalid. I knew more about their own system of learning than they did, they didn't like that, so I was displaying "oppositional behavior." These shrinks honestly expect up front for those they treat to be stupid, unquestioning and completely obedient, and they are licensed to give high doses of psychotrophic drugs to anyone who doesn't conform to that standard.
I was lucky enough to realize what crap the system was before the brain damage the pills gave me became too extensive. At that breaking point I was sitting on the couch all day, drooling, could barely think or talk, and was still trying to somehow maintain a family and a job. Even after quitting the pills, it took years of therapy and retraining my brain to get back everything I lost...to be able to think clearly, speak clearly and interact with others in a meaningful fashion, not to mention using my psychic abilities, which the pills completely shut down to the point I feared they were gone forever. I still have involuntary muscle spasms in my face due to the pills. I consider it my scar from a battle hard fought and hard won against the idea that I was somehow broken for displaying a train of thought that deviated from the norm.
These guys in white coats do not care about you. Yes, there are a few in the industry actively seeking to change it, but in general they are just as brainwashed as those they pump full of drugs. You are a paycheck, and their main goal is to shut you up as quickly as they possibly can, even if it means putting you on tranquilizers. There are a million better ways to work through distortions than poisoning yourself and submitting to those who simply see you as a threat to their hierarchy.
I used to be on a whole cocktail of pills, and had so many diagnosis given to me by so many different shrinks that practically the entire DSM could be represented in my person (I have actually read the DSM, not to mention doing my own extensive research on modern psychology). My favorite was "Oppositional Defiant Disorder", which was tacked on simply because I decided to explain to the panel of psychiatrists reviewing me why their analysis was invalid. I knew more about their own system of learning than they did, they didn't like that, so I was displaying "oppositional behavior." These shrinks honestly expect up front for those they treat to be stupid, unquestioning and completely obedient, and they are licensed to give high doses of psychotrophic drugs to anyone who doesn't conform to that standard.
I was lucky enough to realize what crap the system was before the brain damage the pills gave me became too extensive. At that breaking point I was sitting on the couch all day, drooling, could barely think or talk, and was still trying to somehow maintain a family and a job. Even after quitting the pills, it took years of therapy and retraining my brain to get back everything I lost...to be able to think clearly, speak clearly and interact with others in a meaningful fashion, not to mention using my psychic abilities, which the pills completely shut down to the point I feared they were gone forever. I still have involuntary muscle spasms in my face due to the pills. I consider it my scar from a battle hard fought and hard won against the idea that I was somehow broken for displaying a train of thought that deviated from the norm.
These guys in white coats do not care about you. Yes, there are a few in the industry actively seeking to change it, but in general they are just as brainwashed as those they pump full of drugs. You are a paycheck, and their main goal is to shut you up as quickly as they possibly can, even if it means putting you on tranquilizers. There are a million better ways to work through distortions than poisoning yourself and submitting to those who simply see you as a threat to their hierarchy.