The Truth About Psychiatric Diagnosis2

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The Truth about Psychiatric Diagnosis

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… is to be stigmatized, ostracized, socialized, patronized, psychiatrized .

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… is to have everyone controlling your life but you. You're watched by a shrink, a social worker, your friends, your family.  And then you're diagnosed as paranoid.

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… is to live with the constant real threat and possibility of being locked up at any time, for almost any reason.

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… is to be coerced into taking drugs that dull your mind, deaden your senses, make you jitter, take away sexual ability, drool and then you take more drugs to lessen the "side effects."

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… is to walk around hiding the lie that you are a mental patient because if anyone finds out that you are most of them will choose to have nothing to do with you and also view you as dangerous.

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… is never to be taken seriously. You can never have voice or valid complaint or voice your thoughts, opinions or rights because you are delusional and therefore wrong no matter what.

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… is to watch TV and see how violent and dangerous and dumb and incompetent and crazy mental patients are portrayed and you are now labeled to be one of them.

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…. is to be a statistic. … is to be a guinea pig for drugs.

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… is to wear a label, and that label never goes away, a label that says little about what you are and even less about who you are.

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… is to never to say what you mean, but to sound like you mean what you say.

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… is to tell your psychiatrist she's helping you, even if she is not.

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… is to act glad when you're sad and calm when you're mad, and to always be "appropriate." in order that the psychiatrist can document that the drugs and the treatment is working.

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… is to participate in stupid groups that call themselves therapy.  Music isn't music, its therapy ; volleyball isn't sport, it's therapy ; sewing is therapy ; washing dishes is therapy.  Even the air you breathe is therapy and that's called "the milieu."

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… is not to die, even if you want to -- and not cry, and not hurt, and not be scared, and not be angry, and not be vulnerable, and not to laugh too loud -- because, if you do, you only prove that you are a mental patient even if you are not.

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And so you become a no-thing, in a no-world, and you are not

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The Truth about Psychiatric Diagnosis … is to be stigmatized, ostracized, socialized, patronized, psychiatrized . … is to have everyone controlling your life but you. You're watched by a shrink , a social worker, your friends, your family .  And then you're diagnosed as paranoid. … is to live with the constant real threat and possibility of being locked up at any time, for almost any reason. … is to be coerced into taking drugs that dull your mind, deaden your senses, make you jitter, take away sexual ability, drool and then you take more drugs to lessen the "side effects." … is to walk around hiding the lie that you are a mental patient because if anyone finds out that you are most of them will choose to have nothing to do with you and also view you as dangerous. … is never to be taken seriously. You can never have voice or valid complaint or voice your thoughts, opinions or rights because you are delusional and therefore wrong no matter what . … is to watch TV and see how violent and dangerous and dumb and incompetent and crazy mental patients are portrayed and you are now labeled to be one of them. …. is to be a statistic. … is to be a guinea pig for drugs. … is to wear a label, and that label never goes away, a label that says little about what you are and even less about who you are. … is to never to say what you mean, but to sound like you mean what you say. … is to tell your psychiatrist he's helping you, even if he/she is not. … is to act glad when you're sad and calm when you're mad, and to always be "appropriate." in order that the psychiatrist can document that the drugs and the treatment is working. … is to participate in stupid groups that call themselves therapy.  Music isn't music, its therapy ; volleyball isn't sport, it's therapy ; sewing is therapy ; washing dishes is therapy.  Even the air you breathe is therapy and that's called "the milieu." … is not to die, even if you want to -- and not cry, and not hurt, and not be scared, and not be angry, and not be vulnerable, and not to laugh too loud -- because, if you do, you only prove that you are a mental patient even if you are not. And so you become a no-thing, in a no-world, and you are not .