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Most people suffer from mental issues, how severe it is varies between humans.

Psychiatry is supposed to help people with mental illness but unfortunately there is several issues with the so-called help they are offering

they cannot accurately diagnose people https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990547/
the medication they offer is addictive or will create dependence.
they may start treating you against your will "for your own good".
severe side effects from psychiatric drugs https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3476840/

Long term outcomes are clearly bad

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3756791/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4815037/

http://cepuk.org/unrecognised-facts/long-term-outcomes

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5661946/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/

There is no denying that the drugs they offer can feel good and a lot of people want to get their hands on the addictive drugs they are offering, people on drug will often think they are being helped by the drug when in reality they are just spiralling into an addiction

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813924/

There is no denying that the drugs they offer can feel good and a lot of people want to get their hands on the addictive drugs they are offering,

Many people have a religious faith in psychiatrists and therapists and expect them to magically solve their problem, in reality these people are just humans and you might get more out of chatting with people online about your specific issue. In the case of gender dysphoria they just gave up and decided just to offer hormones and surgery since they are clueless about how to actually cure the disorder.

It's natural to be depressed when your life is bad and the solution is to take action to improve your life, psychiatry will instead give people drugs and electroshocks to archive short term improvement at any cost, as if grand mal seizures would be good for you. They simply turn what could have been a temporary issue (psychosis, depression, etc) into a chronic problem via extended usage of psychiatric drugs and other brain-damaging treatments.

https://connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrehpp/21/2/64

Mental illness can be due to biological factors such as diet psychiatry will not fix that, nor will they be able to fix any of your genetic issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obCZ9z0xLBE

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3931663/

Psychiatric drug studies are often rigged and when that fails often the results are not published at all

https://vintologi.com/threads/studies-on-psychiatric-drugs.591/#post-3485

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0137864

It's unclear if there are any situations where you benefit from drugging yourself unless you await a certain death that will come to you soon, in that case the long term consequences don't matter and you may as well numb yourself so you will feel less bad about your horrible situation assuming there is nothing to be done about it.

Psychiatry is very useful if you want to control a population, label people opposing the system as mentally ill, when they are diagnosed as mentally ill they can be locked up at institutions "for their own good" and they might never get out.

Due to the risk of being treated by these quacks against your will you should not talk about mental health issues such as suicide thoughts or hallucinations with anyone who can find out your real identity, do not even talk to a psychiatrist and by avoiding them you will be mostly safe. If you need to went about something use tor or safer to hide your ip address and you will be more free to talk about hearing voices or whatever mental health issue you struggle from.

If you end up in a psychiatric ward it's recommended that you pretend to take the medications they prescribe and make them think the pill got you better 96 only take it to court as a last resort since there isn't any actual due process anyway (expect to lose).

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-method-to-pretend-to-be-swallowing-a-pill-and-convince-others-that-you-have

https://vintologi.com/threads/psychiatry-horror-stories.267/#post-1651

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The middle ground fallacy

submitted 3 years ago by vintologi_se from self.AgainstPsychiatry

One common dismissive strategy is to state "some people are helped by it" and then the horrors will continue

Instead of killing 6 million jews we are just going to kill 1 million and we are going to modify the gas-chambers so they suffer less when they die

Or in the case of psychiatry

Some people benefit from lobotomy, instead of lobotomizing 100000 people we are going to do it for 10000 people we think would benefit from it

There isn't any science supporting a middle ground position in the case of psychiatry and what will probably happen is that things just continue and the minor change we tried to do lead to nothing.

Some people benefit from depositing their life-savings into an online casino due to getting lucky, this does not make it a good idea. We shouldn't just blindly treat people thinking some will benefit from it, we need proper evidence

https://vintologi.com/threads/studies-on-psychiatric-drugs.591/

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