For the past two years I have been making observations from inside the mental health system through a sociological lens as a critical observer of the mental health system and humanity. Here is An Insiders View of the Mental Health System. https://t.co/t5xh0mfPyt
Advocates of bringing back mental institutions cite how many individuals diagnosed with mental illness are incarcerated in jails and prisons. I guess they are not against incarating these individual but just want a say on where they get locked up. #mentalhealthindustrialcomplex
Check out this fantastic work by Jim Gottstein about #EliLilly hiding the dangerous effects of its popular antipsychotic #Zyprexa https://t.co/hE7JC0Fh3k
Jansen Pharmaceuticals is owned by Johnson & Johnson who has been in deep trouble lately. Their next big drug is #Esketamine. Do you trust them?
Another lawsuit in the “US for allegedly failing to properly warn of #Risperdal's side effects.” https://t.co/ZIRsgTqNIt
Medicine is become the dominant institution of social control in our society. It is replacing religion and the legal system as a means to control bad behavior. What used to be sin is now sickness: https://t.co/sVnhRJ4FM1
Despite what we've been told, there is no such thing as a "chemical imbalance". Surprised? We once were, ourselves, until we took back our right to get informed, and discovered that we'd been taught a false story re: "#mentalillness". Find out more @CEP_UK
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Here is an article about increasing use of #mentalhealth surveillance: https://t.co/GQrApdZehW More and more psychiatry is used as a means to surveil and control individuals in our society. The danger of medical tyranny is real.
Here is an article about mental patients being held at mental hospitals in violation of their civil liberties in Washington State: https://t.co/nV7xcgjx4a #mentalhealth
In #mentalhealth facilities it is really common for patients to be non-cooperative, be mute, create messes and act inappropriately. These things are labeled as mental illness but in reality these are ways a individual fights back against the institution: https://t.co/gA8nLB2pUx
Today CPRPC had a regular monthly meeting at the Chinook Building in D.T. Seattle. We discussed the RFP process for the King County Peer Respite. The organization who's proposal is accepted will receive two million dollars to start a peer respite in King County. #mentalhealth
Check out the CPRPC Newsletter for the latest news about the creation of peer respites in Washington State and King County. Here is a link to the newsletter: https://t.co/EHPoXHu0Ue
Decontextualized Depression and PTSD Diagnoses Fail Indigenous Communities
A case analysis of an American Indian woman illustrates how the #DSM diagnostic criteria misrepresent the lives of #indigenous people.
#psychiatry#mentalhealth
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Here is an article about the "Epstein Process," the use of psychiatric medications to control women used as sex slaves by multimillionaire financier turned pedophile Jeffery Epstein: https://t.co/WSaOhzA3cy In the same way psychiatric medications are used to subdue the population
@Mad_In_America Labeling theorists in sociology were a big part influence in the development of Soteria House. Soteria House was intended to be a social environment that was the antithesis of a mental institution.
How Does the Soteria House Heal?
The alternative treatment model of #Soteria helps individuals suffering from #schizophrenia without relying on medication or coercion.
#psychiatry#mentalhealth
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