by Mike Bundrant
June 14, 2012
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The following is fictitious scenario, yet, believe it or not,
shockingly similar events happen in America today.
If you don't believe it, listen to the
Jim Gottstien interview on Mental Health Exposed. Jim
is an attorney and founder of PsychRights.org. During this
interview (far below audio), Jim explains the dramatic fight he is up against to
defend victims of mental health terrorism in America today.
Victims of mental health terrorism live
ruined lives as a result of seeking treatment from mainstream
psychiatric services.
Stories of forced detainment, forced drugging
and even forced electric shock therapy are common today. The victims
are people just like you and me - normal people with normal
problems.
Getting sucked into the vicious cycle of psychiatric abuse can begin
with an oh-so-common event, such as a nervous breakdown.
Imagine the
following very plausible scenario
You are under a lot of pressure in life and, as it builds, you feel
more and more anxious.
It feels like you are nervous all the time
for no reason and you wonder if you might have a medical problem.
You may be in the middle of a ton of stress at work or home, but you
don't believe all this could add up to so much chronic anxiety.
At
any rate, you ignore the issue, hoping it will go away on its own,
even though it is now interfering with your sleep.
After a couple of months with 2-3 hours sleep at night, you get more
bad news at work and you finally lose it. What follows is hard to
describe. It feels as if your world is ending. The anxiety finally
gets the best of you as you break down in tears, disoriented and
confused.
You can't even put into words what is happening inside of
you.
All you manage to do is lie in the fetal position and sob.
You are having
a nervous breakdown
Not knowing what else to do, you somehow pull yourself together
enough to call a taxi to take you to the hospital.
After doing some
initial tests, the doctor finds,
"nothing physically wrong with you."
This is somewhat upsetting to you, since it means it must be,
"all in
your head."
Your mind is still an ocean of activity. Your nerves are raw.
You
tell the doctor,
"I don't get it! I just don't get it. What is
happening to me? How did I get in this place? I can't go on like
this!"
Your cry for help earns you a ticket to the hospital's psych ward
for evaluation.
The psychiatrist checks his colleague's notes:
extreme anxiety, disorientation, confusion, possibly psychotic,
suicidal. He wants to give you a strong sedative and evaluate you
for major depressive disorder and psychosis, perhaps even
dissociative identity disorder. After all, you said you didn't know
how you got here.
This is indeed sobering, as you have never considered yourself
psychotic or in any way mentally ill. You have always been well
adjusted, with the exception of the previous few months. You refuse
the meds and want to leave.
Your wanting to leave is seen as a red flag by the psychiatrist, who
denies your request to go home. He won't allow you to leave! If you
were anxious before, now you are truly frightened and demand your
freedom. You angrily inform the staff that you are no one's
prisoner. You have constitutional rights!
These claims of imprisonment and violation of the constitution are
seen as further evidence of psychosis. After all, this is a
hospital, not a prison. The psychiatrist decides to medicate you
against your will, as you are now considered a danger to yourself
and others.
Psychiatric aides, big guys who'd do well as bouncers in a
nightclub, hold you down while the doc fills your veins with the
most wonderful, calming stuff you could ever imagine.
Within a few
minutes, you are lying listless on the hospital bed. You won't be
causing any more problems for a while now.
Half-baked on anti-psychotic drugs and sedatives, you are now a
cooperative patient. They keep the meds coming at regular intervals.
It is discovered that you have major depression with psychotic
features and you are ordered into treatment with a local outpatient
psychiatrist.
You are taken from the hospital directly to the outpatient clinic
and told you may return home, after signing a contract that you will
not commit suicide before you are seen again and, of course,
absolving the hospital of any wrongdoing.
The sedatives are doing their job keeping your frantic brain at bay.
Treatment for the severe case of depression is initiated. After a
few weeks of ineffective SSRI's, ECT or electro-convulsive therapy
(electric shock therapy) is seen as the only option.
You reluctantly
consent.
After all, if you don't cooperate, you are threatened with
detainment again and you have to work. You have come to depend on
the meds to get through the day, anyway. And, well, these guys are
doctors, so they must know what they are doing.
After the prescribed 12 sessions of shock therapy, you can't
remember the reason why you sought treatment in the first place. In
fact, many of your memories of life seem to have just disappeared.
Your brain has been stimulated, so you do feel better for a few
days. After that, the dull, aching anxiety that threatens to
resurface if you don't take your sedatives is ever apparent. Your
mind feels like a dustbin full of yesterday's trash.
A friend tells you that long-term exposure to psychotropic
medication and electro-convulsive therapy is scientifically tied to
a condition called Chronic Brain Impairment. In other words, these
psychiatric treatments actually cause a traumatic brain injury and
may impair the brain for life. There are a few good psychiatrists
that practice the principle first do no harm, but most psychiatrists
ignore it.
Maybe you should find someone who can really help you
heal?
You hear the words, but your mind is so dull and you thoughts so
scattered that you don't think it would do you any good to even try
at this point. Besides, what would you do without your medication?
No, this is just how life is. Things fall apart... maybe they never
were together in the first place.
Your psychiatrist informs you the
electro-convulsive therapy works in the short term, but will need to
be repeated periodically to keep you where you need to be.
How is this possible in a country that believes in freedom and
individual rights?
In essence, not everyone in America believes in freedom or
individual rights, especially those in positions of social and
political power. There may be those who support psychiatry, however,
individuals should hold the absolute right to mental health freedom,
the right to possess your own mind.
The irony is, tragedies like the above characterization are totally
avoidable. When someone has a nervous breakdown, or any
psychological issue, it can be handled effectively without
medication. If your best friend were going through it, how would you
help?
I am guessing your course of action would do less harm and be
more effective than the average psychiatrist.
Jim Gottstein of
psychrights.org is on a mission to change mental
health in America, ending detainments, forced medication, forced
electro-convulsive therapy and other forms of mental health
terrorism in America.
Please educate yourself by listening to Jim on Mental Health
Exposed.
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