Wrong Methodology
In regular medicine, disease is found and killed as the enemy to the human body.
In psychiatry the same method of force does not work on the metaphorical “disease”.
The “disease” is the troubled person. The flesh is healthy.
Persuasion to see things differently through communication and understanding is the proper method of treating mental disorders.
When a patient is tortured by psychiatric methods of jail and chemicals for a supposed medical illness, they the patient are an (morally) innocent being, being unjustly punished.
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Many people are relieved of their guilt once diagnosed “mentally ill”.
From Coming Out Crazy by Sandy Naiman
She was the eldest of six children, all under the age of 10. “I vaguely remember my grandparents saying that part of my mother’s problem was her children – us, too many of us – and I think this could have been the genesis of my guilt, that just by being alive, around, I was a problem for my mom,” Lisa said.
Despite having these feelings, Lisa, now 52, was able to follow her dream of being in radio, like her uncle CBC’s Harry Brown, one of the original co-hosts with Barbara Frum of the groundbreaking CBC radio show As It Happens. She started in private radio and ultimately ending up with CBC in Thunder Bay, where she’s happily married a second time and has raised her two sons. About 12 years ago at a family reunion with her five siblings, she discovered that two of her four sisters were also struggling with depression.
Until then, she had never told a soul about her feelings of guilt and inadequacy. “That would not make me ‘cool’ and I was terrified of being found out as weird. I don’t confide in friends easily. I’m more of a listener,” she said.
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Troubles and feelings are no longer (the person-patients) them(themselves), but an external disease. An external enemy to be medically treated.
Maybe its good to be talking of ones feelings, rational or insane.
Maybe insanity doesn’t exist, it is just our guilt, desire, greed, and anger that have successfully lied to ourselves.
Feelings are not a disease.
But with the force of chemicals, it can go the other way around.
You can’t force someone into CBT cognative behaviour therapy, they have to want to go. The same as any successful addiction treatment for an addiction patient. It won’t “take” if the person does not want to change their ways-view of life.
