My big frustration is that I feel like I am the only one who sees that "mental health" - the term and the industry - was the first major step in the process of bringing about the current dystopia. The power of the industry and the sinister nature of the phrase "mental health" is not recognized by anyone. As a teenager, al though I …
My big frustration is that I feel like I am the only one who sees that "mental health" - the term and the industry - was the first major step in the process of bringing about the current dystopia. The power of the industry and the sinister nature of the phrase "mental health" is not recognized by anyone. As a teenager, al though I couldn't have articulated it at the time, I noticed that suddenly this term I had never heard before was now everywhere. I knew it was sinister. Now I describe it as a term that serves to separate mind from body so that the state can be inserted in the space between. As Jennifer Bilek writes, "trans" is part of the transhumanism agenda, and we're all being groomed into dissociation / dissociating from our bodies. This corresponds with my observation. We're being broken down into parts, the first break being mind / body, and then body is further broken down (and with a focus on the sex-related parts of our bodies).
You are not the only one! It is clear to me that the mental health industry is promoting antidepressants and other drugs for financial reasons. My daughter was suicidal. I was persuaded by two psychologists to give my permission for my 14 year old to trial sertraline which was not approved for children. A few month later she was 15 and no longer needed my approval, she insisted the dose be steadily increased. I observed a personality change, She became reckless. Next she was on a waiting list for testosterone. Now, years later identifying as male she wants to work in the pharmaceutical industry. Another victim of state interference. Sertraline has since been shown to increase suicide risk. Parents beware
I'm so sorry about your daughter. I don't have children but I was gaslit and tormented by what was billed as "help" when I was a teenager and young adult, and it makes me livid that it's only gotten worse in the 30 years since. I think the industry should be dismantled.
Giving psychiatric drugs to people under 30 is evil. Yes, the SSRIs do, in a small but still statistically significant percentage of people, cause suicide and other extreme behaviors. The suicide is believed to be linked to the akathisia which a high proportion of people experience on the drugs. Severe akathisia is thought to be what causes suicide. Maybe you know this. I spent a couple years looking into these drugs' effects back in 2000-2001.
The state transing of kids, and parents losing custody or being threatened with loss of custody, over transing, was occurring with psych drugs too, so it's not exactly new. "Trans" was a new twist for sure but severe abuses were occurring for decades, forever really, in the name of "help" or "treatment" for "mental health".
I always think it's interesting they use the word "treatment." I think that's for liability purposes. No one can accuse them of failing to help or doing harm. They can say "We didn't promise to help, we just said we would "treat".
It's interesting you say it was psychologists not psychiatrists who were the drug pushers. This supports my observation that there's no longer a line between psychiatry and psychology. Maybe there never was but as a teenager it was explained to me that their beliefs were completely incompatible and thus they were separate fields.
Are you familiar with Robert Whitaker and his book "Anatomy of an Epidemic"? He uses data and statistics to show that rates of permanent disability due to "mental illness", qualifying people for federal benefits, skyrocketed along with prescriptions of the new psychiatric drugs (starting with prozac in the 80s).
Personally, just as I don't have a "gender identity," I also don't have some amount of "mental" health. I don't conceive of my well-being in that way, as my mind isn't separate from my body. The way I feel ("mentally") is very dependent on how strong and well I am physically, too.
This is changing. I've noticed an increase in psychologists and psychiatrists on X talking about the harm we have done to generations of people by pathologizing personality, puberty, and even just the periods of difficulty and sadness we all experience, fast-tracking people to go on SSRIs regardless of age, accepting self-diagnoses people pick up on the internet, etc. I have also seen an increase in attention around PSSD, the sexual dysfunction caused by going off of SSRIs. Whether these providers who are beginning to speak out have a different agenda or grift remains to be seen, but I am happy that the conversation is starting. Medications and "treatment" should go back to being the exception and not the norm!
Would you support legal changes that allow your victims to hold you accountable for the effects of your interventions on them and their lives? Would you support a 15- or 20-year statute of limitations? Because gaslighting by definition, can take decades to be recognized.
What do you mean by "your victims?" I'm not a mental health professional. I'm a mom with a daughter on SSRIs who is planning to medically transition. She is a double victim, in my opinion.
Statute of limitations should absolutely be lengthened not only for these cases but for suits against providers of so-called "gender affirming care." I'm not sure I understand what I'm reading as hostility towards me. When I say the harm "we have done," I mean we as a society for allowing this pathologization to happen.
I misunderstood your use of the word "we" in your first sentence. I apologize. And I'm very sorry about your daughter. As to "conversations starting," they will not lead anywhere. Nothing will change. Victims of "help" have always been trying to warn but their voices have always been easily drowned out by the industries (now it's the combined industry of pharma + "mental health"). There's always been, for example a psychiatry survivors' movement but as you might expect it's never been able to gain much power or attention. Despite its existence for decades, we got toddlers on anti-anxiety meds and now "gender medicine." Personally I think that the harms of drugs and physical abuses in the name of "help" need to be stopped, at least those are obvious harms, whereas the harms of talk "therapy" are more difficult to elucidate and expose. I want talk therapy exposed for the fraud, grift and gaslighting that it is, and for all the lives and families it's destroyed. They must be kept away from children and teenagers at the least, but I would draw the line at age 30.
This happened ten years ago. Sorry my memory fails sometimes. The mental health professionals worked as a team so it was difficult to accuse any one person of anything. I do remember being in a room with my daughter, a female psychiatrist and another visiting female psychiatrist. It was on that occasion I gave verbal permission for the drug trial. Next my daughter was being seen by a different psychiatrist, a male. It seemed wrong that there was no continuity of care. Someone I knew started taking sertraline and ended his life. My daughter’s attempts “failed”
Clinical psychologists and psychiatrists did not appear to work well together
The industry and the individual "professionals" within it are totally unaccountable. There's zero recourse for those of us they've used and abused.
Again I'm so sorry for what you've been through. I can't imagine. The grift targets teenage girls so aggressively. I think they started ramping it up in the 80s with eating disorders. That's one reason I fell into their net. We girls whose parents had "mental health" coverage on their insurance, were cash cows for them.
Agree.
My big frustration is that I feel like I am the only one who sees that "mental health" - the term and the industry - was the first major step in the process of bringing about the current dystopia. The power of the industry and the sinister nature of the phrase "mental health" is not recognized by anyone. As a teenager, al though I couldn't have articulated it at the time, I noticed that suddenly this term I had never heard before was now everywhere. I knew it was sinister. Now I describe it as a term that serves to separate mind from body so that the state can be inserted in the space between. As Jennifer Bilek writes, "trans" is part of the transhumanism agenda, and we're all being groomed into dissociation / dissociating from our bodies. This corresponds with my observation. We're being broken down into parts, the first break being mind / body, and then body is further broken down (and with a focus on the sex-related parts of our bodies).
You are not the only one! It is clear to me that the mental health industry is promoting antidepressants and other drugs for financial reasons. My daughter was suicidal. I was persuaded by two psychologists to give my permission for my 14 year old to trial sertraline which was not approved for children. A few month later she was 15 and no longer needed my approval, she insisted the dose be steadily increased. I observed a personality change, She became reckless. Next she was on a waiting list for testosterone. Now, years later identifying as male she wants to work in the pharmaceutical industry. Another victim of state interference. Sertraline has since been shown to increase suicide risk. Parents beware
I'm so sorry about your daughter. I don't have children but I was gaslit and tormented by what was billed as "help" when I was a teenager and young adult, and it makes me livid that it's only gotten worse in the 30 years since. I think the industry should be dismantled.
Giving psychiatric drugs to people under 30 is evil. Yes, the SSRIs do, in a small but still statistically significant percentage of people, cause suicide and other extreme behaviors. The suicide is believed to be linked to the akathisia which a high proportion of people experience on the drugs. Severe akathisia is thought to be what causes suicide. Maybe you know this. I spent a couple years looking into these drugs' effects back in 2000-2001.
The state transing of kids, and parents losing custody or being threatened with loss of custody, over transing, was occurring with psych drugs too, so it's not exactly new. "Trans" was a new twist for sure but severe abuses were occurring for decades, forever really, in the name of "help" or "treatment" for "mental health".
I always think it's interesting they use the word "treatment." I think that's for liability purposes. No one can accuse them of failing to help or doing harm. They can say "We didn't promise to help, we just said we would "treat".
It's interesting you say it was psychologists not psychiatrists who were the drug pushers. This supports my observation that there's no longer a line between psychiatry and psychology. Maybe there never was but as a teenager it was explained to me that their beliefs were completely incompatible and thus they were separate fields.
Are you familiar with Robert Whitaker and his book "Anatomy of an Epidemic"? He uses data and statistics to show that rates of permanent disability due to "mental illness", qualifying people for federal benefits, skyrocketed along with prescriptions of the new psychiatric drugs (starting with prozac in the 80s).
Personally, just as I don't have a "gender identity," I also don't have some amount of "mental" health. I don't conceive of my well-being in that way, as my mind isn't separate from my body. The way I feel ("mentally") is very dependent on how strong and well I am physically, too.
This is changing. I've noticed an increase in psychologists and psychiatrists on X talking about the harm we have done to generations of people by pathologizing personality, puberty, and even just the periods of difficulty and sadness we all experience, fast-tracking people to go on SSRIs regardless of age, accepting self-diagnoses people pick up on the internet, etc. I have also seen an increase in attention around PSSD, the sexual dysfunction caused by going off of SSRIs. Whether these providers who are beginning to speak out have a different agenda or grift remains to be seen, but I am happy that the conversation is starting. Medications and "treatment" should go back to being the exception and not the norm!
Would you support legal changes that allow your victims to hold you accountable for the effects of your interventions on them and their lives? Would you support a 15- or 20-year statute of limitations? Because gaslighting by definition, can take decades to be recognized.
What do you mean by "your victims?" I'm not a mental health professional. I'm a mom with a daughter on SSRIs who is planning to medically transition. She is a double victim, in my opinion.
Statute of limitations should absolutely be lengthened not only for these cases but for suits against providers of so-called "gender affirming care." I'm not sure I understand what I'm reading as hostility towards me. When I say the harm "we have done," I mean we as a society for allowing this pathologization to happen.
I misunderstood your use of the word "we" in your first sentence. I apologize. And I'm very sorry about your daughter. As to "conversations starting," they will not lead anywhere. Nothing will change. Victims of "help" have always been trying to warn but their voices have always been easily drowned out by the industries (now it's the combined industry of pharma + "mental health"). There's always been, for example a psychiatry survivors' movement but as you might expect it's never been able to gain much power or attention. Despite its existence for decades, we got toddlers on anti-anxiety meds and now "gender medicine." Personally I think that the harms of drugs and physical abuses in the name of "help" need to be stopped, at least those are obvious harms, whereas the harms of talk "therapy" are more difficult to elucidate and expose. I want talk therapy exposed for the fraud, grift and gaslighting that it is, and for all the lives and families it's destroyed. They must be kept away from children and teenagers at the least, but I would draw the line at age 30.
This happened ten years ago. Sorry my memory fails sometimes. The mental health professionals worked as a team so it was difficult to accuse any one person of anything. I do remember being in a room with my daughter, a female psychiatrist and another visiting female psychiatrist. It was on that occasion I gave verbal permission for the drug trial. Next my daughter was being seen by a different psychiatrist, a male. It seemed wrong that there was no continuity of care. Someone I knew started taking sertraline and ended his life. My daughter’s attempts “failed”
Clinical psychologists and psychiatrists did not appear to work well together
The industry and the individual "professionals" within it are totally unaccountable. There's zero recourse for those of us they've used and abused.
Again I'm so sorry for what you've been through. I can't imagine. The grift targets teenage girls so aggressively. I think they started ramping it up in the 80s with eating disorders. That's one reason I fell into their net. We girls whose parents had "mental health" coverage on their insurance, were cash cows for them.