"Seeing as you continuously......"

Comment written to Amnesty International on Facebook.

Seeing as you continuously delete my comments for being "off topic" I will do as you suggest and start a new thread. 

Nice to know that I can do that - start a new thread. Thanks for defending my human right to freedom of speech. Could you also start defending some other of my human rights - here in England - a homeland of them? For example - the right to not be imprisoned by the state without crime or trial? And the right not to EVER be poisoned, tortured and terrorised by the state?

Principles upheld by Winston Churchill in leading Britain throo World War II? Would it be OK if you could do that for me too? For the first time ever? There's a "Hospital"-full of my friends at Goodmayes who want that as well. I am sure. Medicine cannot exist anywhere whilst the crime against humanity that is "Psychiatry" exists as a part of it.

www.antipsychiatry.org

www.szasz.com

Lest we forget what people died for in World War 2.

NONE IN FOUR!

1 in 4?

1 in 4 people suffer a "mental health problem" at some point in their lives. Supposedly.

I prefer the more accurate statistic "NONE IN FOUR" suffer them as they don't exist and can't exist.

"One in Four" has been a prominent slogan in campaigns to reduce stigma and discrimination against people with "mental health problems".

BUT the ideology of "Mental Illness" is ITSELF intrinsically STIGMATIZATION.

The ONLY truthfully permissable slogan is "NONE IN FOUR" because it doesn't exist.

No! It's Not Just Like Having a Broken Leg!

No! It's Not Just Like Having a Broken Leg, Diabetes or High Blood Pressure!

"Mental Illness" we are constantly told is the same thing as normal physical illness, just mental instead of physical.

"It's just like having a broken leg!" or "It wouldn't be a problem if it was a broken leg!"

Well this is the point. It is not physical so you can't see it, but neither is it an illness!

No! It is not just like having a broken leg!

It doesn't exist at all.

Effectively

Effectively, the UK Benefits System no longer recognizes "Mental Illness" as a reason to be off work.

In truth, it never really did.

This does not sit well with the recent surge in the media and from some political quarters of "mental illness" awareness and pro-"mental illness" rhetoric and hype.

Neither does it sit well with the massive extent of benefit claiming that was made by people with "Mental Health problems." For decades, people have signed off sick in the UK with "mental health problems" in quite large numbers.

Many people who weren't disabled at all were encouraged - admittedly by well-meaning people - to claim DLA (Disability Living Allowance) for decades. And sometimes DLA was awarded to such people.

This continues with people being awarded benefits for being so sick that they cannot work, when they could really work. But the system is tightening up.

Look at the small print and it becomes clear that strictly speaking no changes are needed and such benefits should never have been awarded at all.

Szasz was well aware of this kind of issue in all his writings and wrote extensively about issues around supposed "malingering".

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The mismatch pointed to above at the beginning of this post also accentuates the under-class status of what was and still is in the UK quite a large number of people - the longterm unemployed also designated "mentally ill."

In 2014, these people are starved of facilities more than they ever were.

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My own personal view is that the best solution to the problem of wage slavery and benefits is
A GUARANTEED BASIC INCOME FOR ALL, regardless of work activities or work payments.

I have never "malingered".
I was always told to claim sickness benefits by others and effectively coerced into doing so.