My efforts to extract my friend from her self-fulfilling misdiagnosis have reached the Supreme Court. The questions of my current petition are about who may perpetrate fraud on the United States Court, but I tried to make it about 'Medical Freedom' [0]. If any of you care about medical freedom, amicus curiae briefs would be very helpful.
I suppose it's not nice to call the conventional mental health system a cargo cult. But I've been trying to extract my friend from their system for 6.5 years, and have made no progress helping the medical professionals realize their forced prescriptions are the cause behind my friend's 'mental deterioration'.
Do any of you have any insights into why this particular branch of pseudo-medicine is so resistant to reform? It's been 20 years since Whitaker published Mad in America, and the mentally ill are still being pharmacologically abused. "Mental Health" problems are mostly solved [1], but the solutions are not implemented and the abuse continues.
The Soviet Union sometimes sent their dissidents to their system of Gulags [2] (forced labor camps). Sometimes these dissidents would feign a 'mental disorder' to get themselves transferred from their gulag to a psycho prison. In the later Soviet period doctors at the psycho prison would treat their 'patients' with the anti-psychotic drug haloperidol. Robert Whitaker said the important thing about this historical fact was how American Psychiatrists, and others, called the Soviets' use of haloperidol 'torture' [3].
American doctors use haloperidol not for its agony-inducing effects, but as a tranquilizer for geriatrics, prisoners, and psychotics. Our doctors wouldn't do this if they realized they have much better options to treat the metabolic causes of their patients' symptoms.
My previous petition told the Justices about the Tragedy of Curtis Bagley [4], who was deteriorated by Arizona's criminal justice system. I don't know if Bagley was tortured with haloperidol, but I think it likely. My friend was injected with haloperidol at her January 2022 'stabilization'.
Some of you like your psychiatric pills. The occasional benefit of SSRIs is entirely due to the increase in allopregnanolone [5], not the artificial boosting of serotonin. Many kinds of brain damage cause the brain to boost production of allopregnanolone. It's better to not induce brain damage when all a person really needs is a supplement. The MAOIs are relatively safe anti-depressants, and are reasonably effective for short-term use [6].
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 19.0 ms ] threadMy efforts to extract my friend from her self-fulfilling misdiagnosis have reached the Supreme Court. The questions of my current petition are about who may perpetrate fraud on the United States Court, but I tried to make it about 'Medical Freedom' [0]. If any of you care about medical freedom, amicus curiae briefs would be very helpful.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31863786
I suppose it's not nice to call the conventional mental health system a cargo cult. But I've been trying to extract my friend from their system for 6.5 years, and have made no progress helping the medical professionals realize their forced prescriptions are the cause behind my friend's 'mental deterioration'.
Do any of you have any insights into why this particular branch of pseudo-medicine is so resistant to reform? It's been 20 years since Whitaker published Mad in America, and the mentally ill are still being pharmacologically abused. "Mental Health" problems are mostly solved [1], but the solutions are not implemented and the abuse continues.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27993405
The Soviet Union sometimes sent their dissidents to their system of Gulags [2] (forced labor camps). Sometimes these dissidents would feign a 'mental disorder' to get themselves transferred from their gulag to a psycho prison. In the later Soviet period doctors at the psycho prison would treat their 'patients' with the anti-psychotic drug haloperidol. Robert Whitaker said the important thing about this historical fact was how American Psychiatrists, and others, called the Soviets' use of haloperidol 'torture' [3].
American doctors use haloperidol not for its agony-inducing effects, but as a tranquilizer for geriatrics, prisoners, and psychotics. Our doctors wouldn't do this if they realized they have much better options to treat the metabolic causes of their patients' symptoms.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17758723
My previous petition told the Justices about the Tragedy of Curtis Bagley [4], who was deteriorated by Arizona's criminal justice system. I don't know if Bagley was tortured with haloperidol, but I think it likely. My friend was injected with haloperidol at her January 2022 'stabilization'.
[4] https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1509632668169748481
Some of you like your psychiatric pills. The occasional benefit of SSRIs is entirely due to the increase in allopregnanolone [5], not the artificial boosting of serotonin. Many kinds of brain damage cause the brain to boost production of allopregnanolone. It's better to not induce brain damage when all a person really needs is a supplement. The MAOIs are relatively safe anti-depressants, and are reasonably effective for short-term use [6].
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23859433
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21439470
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