"Psychiatric Slavery"

[Christ_empowered]

I know...another anti-psychiatry rant and ramble. Its not really a rant or ramble, its just my life.

I went to a shrink at 18. Long story...I thought I'd end up normal. I'm 29 now. 2 hospitalizations, 2 rounds of involuntary, heavy ECT, loads of expen$ive drugs later, and...they failed to make me normal. I'm only approaching healthy and normal because of Jesus Christ.

What did the shrinks do? They spent a lot of my parents' and my insurance company's money. They fried my brain with drugs and electroshock. They changed diagnoses repeatedly. They have now ruined my reputation because I "stepped out of line" and filed a medical board complaint against my first psychiatrist.

I'm bright eyed and healthier than ever. The shrinks tried to send me to a state mental hospital. If I didn't have my white collar, well-connected family behind me, they would have succeeded. They've tried to have me arrested. They've released pencil whipped, confidential information.

At 21, I was dead eyed and ugly and prematurely aged because of psychiatry. At 29, I'm bright eyed, attractive and surprisingly young looking because of Jesus. Not surprisingly, the core of Christianity and the core of psychiatry don't mix well.

Psychiatry treats broken people by breaking them further and spending lots of money in the process. Apparently, crazy people don't need brain cells, which explains why shrinks whip up mind-numbing, brain-damaging cocktails and zap people with high voltage electricity to "treat their mental illness." Problem? Mental illness doesn't show up on brain scans or in lab work. Brain damage does, though.

Jesus is The Ultimate Physician. By the strikes on His back, we are healed. I've been healed, and I'm happier than ever, but I may never be able to get a job. When a shrink decides to fry your brain out at 20 years old, so much ECT that you no longer dream at night and all your memories are gone, it significantly reduces your ability to work and/or go to school. My IQ dropped to 95 (that's dull normal) and I also had significant agitation, anxiety, and tics and premature aging. My hair fell out.

Jesus stepped in. IQ, from what I hear, is "high," which is to say I'm at least where I started, if not higher. Because I have a mental health record--its now "severe mental illness," because I got my shrinks in trouble and "stepped out of line"--I'm automatically a second class citizen. Just a mental patient. When I was broke down and dead eyed, the shrinks said I did it to myself and I got what was coming to me. Riiight. I could have used a state mental hospital back then. They just wanted to watch me suffer and die. Jesus healed me, and they reacted by--you guessed it--trying to send me to a state mental hospital.

I'm not the only one. Part of the problem is that psychiatry is used to control poor people, minorities, women, and people who are financially dependent on other people (read: kids and unemployed grown ups and old people). Wherever people are controlled, wherever people are locked up, wherever people are oppressed, you will find shrinks. Shrinks and tranquilizers and ECT and psychosurgery.

"Mental illness" ? Don't make me laugh. Its a bunch of nonsense the shrinks made up so they can make tons of money and control people and our society can drug up the unwanted, the undesirables, those too old or too poor or too (anything) to be of much good to society.

Meds aren't all bad. Let's face it; some days, you might need a tranquilizer. Any doc can prescribe one.

"Where the Spirit of The Lord is, there is liberty." Every day and every night, I pray for the freedom to practice Christian liberty. For the freedom to stay out of jail, out of prison, out of a mental hospital, out of forced outpatient treatment (read: heavy outpatient drugging...cheaper than a state mental hospital) so I can enjoy the healings that Jesus has seen fit to give me.

Think about it. Warn people you know popping mood drugs and going to mental health "professionals." Warn them that labels follow you, records can be changed, and these "helping professionals" will try their best to control you and destroy you.

 

[farouk]

Do you think there is any home based work, Web work etc that you could do at your own pace?

Blessings.

 

[Christ_empowered]

farouk--all I can think of is to somehow get an English degree w/ my existing college credits and then do technical writing. That's a long shot, though. Other than that...I dunno.

 

[farouk]

farouk--all I can think of is to somehow get an English degree w/ my existing college credits and then do technical writing. That's a long shot, though. Other than that...I dunno.

Well, it would be a foot on the rung, so to speak. And something to put on a resume.

Blessings.

 

[WordsintoHarmony]

Good starting post. Amen to God as true statements that Jesus not doctors and or medicine is a cure for the mind. In Jesus’ day there were many who professed to be as wise men. Every generation has people who profess to be wise people. Jesus was challenged in his day for what kind of knowledge did Jesus seek after. Jesus proclaims the word he says is from His Father whom sent him. Jesus speaks of Greater understanding than those Socrates philosophy or any kind of psychology that tested Jesus and even those to the abiding the law of men. If you are a Christian you will also be challenged of your Faith and Belief compared to what they believe.

Psychiatrists come from a background of college study degrees and certificates. Their educational background and what a psychiatrist is suppose to determine and acknowledge has placed people in various groups they type them into classes. They think this is intelligent and patients can’t do much about it because the regulations and rules of patient and psychiatry who is being treated and who is giving the treatment.

I have been a patient on a few occasions to psychiatric hospital rehabilitation center. Or being held more than 24 hours per say. My first time there was after I tried to take my life. The police brought me there. Was this place any help? Having a place to eat and sleep and play some games was help to me also talking to other people who were also placed in the hospital like I was. You will come to find out that some are not sound in mind in thinking or action. These are those who mostly trying to talk to others. The person might say things I don’t understand. Remember Mark Chapman who shot John Lennon quoting words from catcher in the eye. These kinds however are least common in psychiatric. More people I meet are mostly having troubles in life: depression, feeling down, or anxiety to either not be in one place or to hurt one etcetera. My type of Depression of life itself I think we just want a time out.

Staying at the hospital perhaps gives us some time alone to think over things. Most people after a week or 2 want to go back home. However by doctor’s orders they want them to stay for a couple of months as they feel this person needs more psychiatric treatment. I was given a powerful tranquilizer. I also had 2 other medications. This one knocked me out. But by the morning once I woke up I wanted more medicine to put me back to sleep for a while. . My body became addicted to these substances. But when I told the psychiatrist about my side effects the last doctor who seen me took them off of me immediately. Released and let off the medication at night time my arms wanted to raise up in the air because nothing was knocking me out anymore. I was getting sick in the stomach that I guess my body was sent into shock. I tried to take a night time sleeping pill. But my friend said don’t those are not healthy to take all the time. You will get addicted to that also and you want to stop take sleeping pills. Try to get used to sleeping naturally. . After a few weeks I was able to sleep on my own again.

What can I then say abut psychiatric treatments? Be your own doctor. If you really need something like Paxil or Prozac for anxiety attacks or such start with the smallest dosage. Take only what is necessary to help for depression or anxiety. Don’t let these doctors give you very strong medication with high dosage of this sometimes because too much can make things a lot worse than one started out to be.

Look and see if there is Christian counseling. Christian counseling will take in knowledge your belief in God and using the bible to apply your understanding. Take the words in the Bible in making crucial decisions on how you deal with life. Just be aware that many psychiatrists who are not Christian may call your Faith in God not sufficient enough for mental or physical therapy procedures. They feel, they the doctors not God nor the Bible has any of these answers. If you are a Christian and end up in psychiatric don’t feel to lose hope. All of us at one time feel down on life and ourselves. Use the time there as a time of rest. Don’t let the doctors humiliate you to feel there are serious mental problems with yourself. They not you will try to define who you are. . Not all psychiatrists or therapists are bad. Some do actually care and want to help you. You have to determine why you are there. If you need any treatment keep praying and ask God to direct your ways.