apothosis do you feel that this acceptable to you to be told that no more therapy is an option? why is it not available to you? thats what i want to know it like theyve got more important people to treat do you know anyone of them i dont lol WHO DECIDES WHO IS AT THE TOP OF THE LIST? i cant see democracy in this its like i function relativly well so weve gt more important people to deal with its not right. dual diagnosis another way to cut back on theyre caseload drinking is part of the illness for some people does that mean they should get any help?
As all of us are, & our situations, it is complex. As psychiatric patients ~ we don't have rights, & we don't have any genuine democratic choice. Any supposed rights & choices are phoney.
Simply - As you probably gathered from my posts - I am in opposition to orthodox psychiatric practices. The entire psychiatric system, should IMO be abolished, I think that it is beyond reform.
Yes, a few are helped with meds, but that does not negate the many that would be far better helped with other means. & drugging everyone & electrocuting their brains when drugging doesn't work, is to my mind something out of the dark ages; & that a few lost souls claim that they feel better with all of this treatment, doesn't convince me.
After 20 years I got see an NHS psychologist, & they were good. This psychologist did help me to see certain patterns that repeated from childhood. But it was also limited, & I was not allowed to explore at any depth the
psychosis experiences. The simple fact, is that the approaches, methods & psychological help that I have always wanted, is not catered for or given on the NHS. Except maybe from a very tiny amount of practitioners, such as
Rufus May ~
At the last psych app - I was told that the recommendation of the psychologist; was that I contemplate & integrate what we had discussed, & that I focus on vocational concerns, & filling my life up with more activities, before I look at psychological help again. What this basically means is that I should get voluntary work with a long term view to employment. This recent change in attitude with psychiatric services is socio-political, & has come about with changes in line with government policy, & with the governments aim of taking people off the long term sick - it is not motivated by any genuine therapeutic or healing concerns. Orthodox Psychiatry is a social control & engineering mechanism, it is not about any genuine healing.
Frankly - the entire thing makes me sick. Little of the way I have been treated, & how I am treated is acceptable to me. It is all a severe injustice. But that is the way the system is, & it's the way mainstream society is. What else do I do except to try & get as much acceptance around everything as I can? So much of what has gone on was not my fault, & I had no choice in it. The best I can do it 'let go' of stuff as much as I can.
If you suffer with or experience extreme altered states; then you will likely be sectioned, controlled, pumped full of drugs, subdued & made apathetic, labelled with a severe mental illness, & given little genuine help. You will be ostracised, social isolated & excluded, & not taken seriously; but chucked on the rubbish heap. Society & the psychiatric system, will then covertly or openly insinuate that you are ultimately responsible for the situation! The
mentally ill are one of societies main scape goats, they are one of the main groups to blame, 'we' are the violent, unpredictable, lazy, good for nothing, dole sponging bums; & it is all our fault the way we are, & the situations we are in!
I know I had a part in things, but I lay the real blame firmly where it should be, with this insane society in which we live; that it is a joke to call civilised, & with the barbaric & ineffectual psychiatric system - they are brain butchering scum, as far as I am concerned. Yes, there are some practitioners that mean well, but it is comparable to saying that there were some well meaning Nazis.
Whatever I try, & however I try; I am not going to get the help I am looking for from orthodox psychiatry. I am not going to get the acceptance & understanding that I need from mainstream society. I cannot change the system, I cannot change peoples minds & convictions. We live in a World where when people get a problem, they go to the Doc's & they want drugs, that is the norm, that is the culture - this throw away, shallow, materialistic, inane, spiritually dead, & fickle culture & society in which we live, will not allow those that see things at any other level the opportunity for a more meaningful recovery & life. There is something seriously & deeply wrong with people, society in general & the World.
These ways in which people are living cannot be sustained. We do stand on the brink of societal collapse, whether people see it, or acknowledge it, or not; is of no consequence to what is on the horizon. It is simply a matter of time, & when things do indeed go totally tits up. I do take some solace in the knowledge of that fact. It's what is actually needed. People need to wake up.
