How many links can you get me to anti-psychiartry websites and resources?

Question

Looking for resources and links for anti-psychiatry does anyone have any? Or tips would be welcome too.

This is interesting, will wait to see if I get anymore answers, if you are going to answer please identify what your source is for your oppinion, your personal experience as a patient, treating patients, or being an ex-patient, or working in the field of pharmaceuticals, NAMI, or psychiatry? That would help me to see why you say what you say here more clearly. Do you realize that there are a lot of psychiatrist denouncing psychiatry at this point in time? And drug reps that are handing over the covered up truths? Thanks

One of the comments was that most of these sites are being run by angry patients, I don't believe that this is true, but if it is true then what would patients have to be so angry about this for if this was all so good for them, and it was needed so badly? However, I think I was asking for links, not oppinions here, in the first place.

So a physicist makes doll clothes, tell another big one and perhaps someone will believe you. If you were a physicist you would know about the science of matter and energy and of interactions between the two, grouped in traditional fields such as acoustics, optics, mechanics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism, as well as in modern extensions including atomic and nuclear physics, cryogenics, solid-state physics, particle physics, and plasma physics. Not the brain so try it with someone else, you are trying to debate about some thing you know nothing about and if the APA, NAMI, and the U.S. Surgeon General can give no real scientific data on it then how can you? If you can put it on here in your answer, otherwise please give me links. I am sorry that you "believe" that you have mental illness or a "brain disease" that is unfortunate for you. That is probably why you don't think rationally and can not answer this.

Answer 1

google it. and go to www.cchr.org. watch the videos and order the dvd from the website, it is 2 hours full of data - specific data.

Answer 2

The anti psychiatry folks are not very scientific, much less so than the medical researchers (who don't hold a candle to the physicists, I'm afraid). I'm a bipolar person who was abused by the system, but I still think it is clear that people do have mental illnesses, they are real. It is clear that medicines reduce suffering and allow people with mental illness to function better. I trained as a physicist before getting bipolar so bad i couldn't function, so I can see when a study/opinion about a study is scientific or not, or just irrational, and I have to say a lot of the anti-psychiatry folks take things out of context and ignore any data that is incovenient for them. People with mental illness do get abused by the system, they do get horrendous side-effects from the drugs, sometimes, sometimes they are forced into treatment (not often anymore) and sometimes the pills don't work. But that doesn't mean mental illnesses don't exist and that the pills don't help most. These antipsychiatry folks use a few unethical debater's tricks too (I also used to be a debate coach and those tricks really tick me off!!!) So beware, like someone else on here said. Unless you also want to believe the world is flat, the sun goes around the earth, etc. The scientific method that showed the earth goes around the sun is the same method that is researching mental illnesses.

Answer 3

Citizens Comission On Human Rights is anti-institutional, anti-psych drug, anti-psychiatry

Psychiatry claims to have a clue, but if you look at methodology, it is totally hit/miss speculation that does not work uniformly on everyone.

Classic example of psych barbarism - interorbital leucotomy and SHOCK TREATMENT back in the old days. NONE OF THOSE DOCS would HAVE such treatments done on themselves if they had problems, but they were happy to perpetrate them on other people. Where is the SCIENCE in that??? "Mad Science" maybe.

Psychology at least seems more interested in learning more about how it all works before jumping to abusive or weird treatment...that piece just my opinion. They come up with hare-brained schemes too. There may be some validity to some theories of treatment. But they are just that - theories that can't be asserted as THE truth.

Answer 4

Hey, we talked before. I used to work in a state mental hospital. I have seen people drink so much water they get dizzy, some of them even drink out of the toilet. I have seen other people drink urine, eat feces, and another guy who ate the lining of his shoe. Another woman wrapped her turds in handerchiefs and called them her "babies." We another girl who swallowed a battery. They had to remove it surgically, and then she ripped out her stitches and we had to send her to the medical hospital again for more surgery. We had another guy who nailed his hand to a board, he said he's Jesus and he needed to be crucified. Another guy knocked down a teen age girl on a bike with his car, he got out of the car, felt her breasts and got back in the car. When asked why he did that, he said "I wanted to see if she was good breeding stock." Do you know what that guy did for living? He was a medical doctor. Another guy got caught by a farmer, he was having sex with a cow.

All of these stories are true, and I have more where that came from. What do you suggest we do with people like these? Anybody who says theres no such thing as mental illness is going to have a hard time convincing me.

Answer 5

look at scientology... that's about it.

Anyone else knows that we NEED psychiatry and psychology b/c mental illness is a HUGE problem and people are truly ill and need help.

All your little herbal remedies won't help.

Answer 6

in my opinion these sites are run by angry patients - Beware