Another vicitm. How many more?

Sylvia Plath - like, for example, Vincent Van Gogh - was not "mentally ill" - at least for the simple reason that there is no such thing as "mental illness".

It appears that, in all our commemorations of her, we still sadly do not point out that she was a VICTIM and a SURVIVOR of the most vicious forms of "Psychiatry" (Greek for "mindhealing").

She "experienced" it at probably its most evil apogee - the USA in the 1950s.

The Rosenbergs were electrocuted to death. So were many others by other racist US executioners.

In another act of violence, Sylvia was electrocuted too, don't forget. Poor, poor soul.

How can what is essentially an execution method be a medical process?

It can't - and it is a horrific endictment of the complacency of Medicine, Law and the whole of our civilisation that this wicked crime continues at all.


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Psychiatry's Electro-Convulsive Shock "Treatment" ("ECT") is wholly unnecessary, totally pointless, totally bogus scientifically and a crime against humanity.

It is very damaging. 

It is - we must never forget - like so much of psychiatry - AN ACT OF VIOLENCE.

Frankly, I am surprised the Royal Engineers haven't been round to all "E.C.T. Torture Stations" and evacuated the people and then "burned the hole" with a few good old Bangalore Torpedos and blown the fuckers up! Then put the Nazis who run them on trial.

Get on with it. UBIQUE QU FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT! 

What shocks me - if you'll pardon the pun - is the utter apathy about the issue. 
Where are Bono and U2 for example? 
Are they busy sipping champagne with Elton John? Or watching the beautiful oil fields?

I have emailed Sue - shown above and she is an inspiration - a living saint if ever there was one! 
She was really friendly and kind to me.
She does all she can to end this nightmare for millions. Wow!

It has happened on a massive scale in the UK since the 1950s at least. 
It was originally "experimented with" on vagrants.

Like I say elsewhere, doctors are concerned enuff about boxing to campaign systematically and in an organised way for its abolition.
Why the silence about this wicked crime?? - an embarrassment to what is left of "Medicine"!!

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To even talk of "voluntary electrocution" - as a Professor of Medicine did to me yesterday - I sincerely find offensive.
Would one talk of "voluntary kneecapping"?......

The Nazis - A Warning from History. Psychiatry - A Warning from Right Fucking Now!

The Nazis - A Warning from History.

Psychiatry - A Warning from Right Fucking Now!

"The Myth of Psychotherapy"

In my experience the formal "Psychotherapist" or "Clinical" Psychologist - whilst not a poisoner nor a jailor - is almost equally criminal and potentially damaging as the Psychiatrist.

Psychotherapy too is not just a "Myth" as Szasz diplomatically inferred with his 1988 title - "The Myth of Psychotherapy" - but also a lie and potentially a crime - like its ally "Psychiatry". Still at least they won't poison, torture or imprison you. I am shocked however at their lack of vocal opposition to such things - to say the least.

To be conciliatory, REBT - the originator of CBT - as an example of a "psychotherapy" - is a very sound filosofy of life. IMO. And that is a point - it is simply an opinion really. And hence should never ever be imposed.

I personally feel the need for "therapy", "counselling" or "advice" to recover from the crimes comitted against me by people who are at least supposed to be helping me. Tragic!

And of course what I really want and need - what we all need really - is love and compassion. Also - not available from "therapists".

NOTA BENE: "Therapy" as a concept and a word can only really be PHYSICAL by the way; and applied to physical activity only! This is important. 

Hence the piece of language "psycotherapy" like my old enemy "psychopathology" is practically criminal. 

"Psychopathology" as a piece of language alone - let alone an "activity" - in particular is totally wicked and immoral.

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Setting oneself up as a "therapist" or "psychotherapist" and even charging money for it, implies that one has some kind of SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE or SKILL that enables you and hence your "client" to deal with life - as we all have to - in some kind of superior way.

Is that really the case?

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21.11.18.

What I have written above - which I am led to believe has been read by 17 people - is FAR TOO HARSH. 

"Far too harsh" is also a description of the "mental health system" which is what I was being ravaged by when I wrote most of this blog. In spite of this, I am quite happy with the blog overall.

Therapy and / or counselling CAN OF COURSE HELP. They can be vital.

A point to be made is that just a friendly chat with psychological insights is very helpful and all that therapy should be basically.

I am once again all the way with Szasz and his views on the subject as expressed in "The Myth of Psychotherapy".

I also point to his argument for developing what he called Iatrologic - or the art of healing words!







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"The Hospitals That Make You Sick"

I am at present RECOVERING from being in a hospital.

Yes. Totally illogical isn't it? Welcome to the pure illogicality of the crime that is "psychiatry".

These are - in the title of a "Big Issue" article of the year 2000 -
"The Hospitals That Make You Sick."

I still have a photocopy of the extensive article.

In 2000, I photocopied it and sent it in a letter to a "Psychiatrist" who had happily imprisoned me and thousands of innocents time and time again.

The "doctor" gave me no reaction or recognition of having received this wonderful article.

Did people like this join the medical profession to be jailors?

These prisons - and they still exist today in 2013 - are such a complete waste of resources at a time when supposedly we are lacking in funds and resources.

This practice of incarcerating large numbers of people without trial in fake hospitals for no reason other than being an inconvenience or an annoyance sadly begun - at least as a fake medical practice - principally in England.

Later on, the Soviets and many others used this fake medical discipline to incarcerate "enemies of the state". In the "West" victims of capitalism still fall victim to this criminal system far more innocently.

It is to be hoped that England will be a place where the movement to end this practise will prosper and prevail.

The answer is to establish the human rights for which World War 2 was fought.

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It makes me laugh when people say :-

"What do you want us to do instead?"

This is like someone saying :-

"What do you want me to do instead of kicking your head in as you lie supine on the floor?"

I am clearly not required to answer anything other than the following :-

"What you should do instead is simply not kick my head in whilst I lie supine on the floor!"

:D

If I were again asked the absurd question :-

"What should we do instead?"

I would reply :

"Give people their freedom!".

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"Recovery and Well-Being Plan"?

I was given a "Recovery and Well-being Plan" - as we all were.

How many of the scowls that this pamphlet was greeted with were due to the fact that there is NO illness - hence NOTHING to recover from???
- except the continuing attempt to destroy our WELL-BEING throo DEADENING INCARCERATION and POISONING.

Fucking astounding stupidity!

Just give us what is supposed to be our normal birthright - our freedom! We can't do anything without that anyway!....

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Someone said to me:
"So you think you are some kind of "miscarriage of psychiatric justice" then?"
You could here a slight "smiley man" in their voice. :)

I said "Nice one! Well yeah! 
But the point is - there is no such thing as Psychiatric justice!
In fact Psychiatry is one big massive injustice!"......

In fact being declared "mentally ill" nowadays could be thought of as a bit like the diametric opposite of winning the lottery. Equally random but utter and total bad luck.
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Just got out of Colditz !

Just a brief note regarding 5th - and hopefully final - IMPRISONMENT (objectively speaking) in a "Pysch Ward"; more like a "holding pen" really - at least the one I was on.

I am by the way in no way the only victim of all this bullshit who is to say the least DISSATISFIED with what is still occurring.

The old wards I was on 10 years ago were not full of people who were very familiar with real prisons as many on them are now. I don't mean to namedrop but HMP Pentonville and HMP Brixton spring to mind. Many prisons are indeed now FAR more humane than "Psych Wards".

As I said to the staff - "Did you join the Medical Profession to be Jailors?"

Also - this is echoed in the way that the new hospital is more like a holding pen and less like a recuperative space.

It is the same "double whammy" for us victims - MEDICALISATION and also QUASI-CRIMINALISATION of something that SIMPLY DOES NOT AND CANNOT EXIST.

Then on top of this you are expected to feel positive! :)

I am speaking for many people here.

At least they make the effort to give everyone the chance to have something like proper exercise....

The emphasis is now rightly on getting people out of the place as quickly as feasible.
The question of course - as it always was - is why do we have these prisons at all?

Why did the Allied Soldiers bother fighting and dying if we don't even have human rights in England?

Yesterday, I had to  listen to a fully grown man bellowing very loudly below me for half an hour or more:
 "Let me go home! I have been here for 2 bloody weeks! I just want to go home! To do what I want and have the food I want! Oh please let me go home! Please!". Repetitively - over and over again.
He sounded very infantilised by his confinement.
If you treat people like infants they can behave like infants.
They should frankly just let him go home!  The poor man was on a ward called "Picasso Ward".

The wards at the local psychiatric hospital are all named after visual artists. Would they name prisons after visual artists?

Hepworth, Moore, Monet, Turner, Ogura, Morris, Picasso.....
Are they saying all visual artists are "insane"??!
Is this an unintended comment on English boorishness regarding visual art??!
Would they name them after other kinds of artist..... or even philosophers?...!...


I have to think of it as some kind of monastery to keep me in a reasonable frame of mind regarding the place.
The piece of terminology "ward" does have its origins in monasticism. European monasticism was the driving force of European civilisation for 1000 years or so and England was an important centre of it.
Barking Abbey was just down the road - Barley Lane being named after the last Abbess, Dorothy Barley (Women were especially important at Barking Abbey as I discovered in an amazing history book entitled "Essex Girls" by Karen Bowman).

I was on "Turner Ward" myself. With loads of really lovely people. Three old friends from the system were in there when I got there. One has been in the "Mentalism" system since the 1980s. Another since the early 90s. He has also been hit by a large "hummer" car. He has no car and bikes everywhere. His legs were badly injured. He was in pain and needed to be in a conventional hospital really. But as he was already in the mental system - this was where he ended up. Another since the late 90s. I was shocked to see all three - to be honest! It is a self-replicating system! And you can get stuck in it... and end up getting stuck in the door!!
A chap who was on there last Christmas is still lingering there and is now quite obese - he wasn't at all when I last saw him.

Some now suffer obesity and diabetes from years of pointless toxic dogshit medication and years of idleness due to this criminal system.

I add that "Turner" officially refers to the proto-Impressionist stormy weather painter J.M.W.; and not to Tina - tho she is also of course a bit of a crazy artiste!

The whole place should be sub-titled "CHRIS OFILI HOSPITAL" - in honour of the fact that Psychiatry is shit.
This prize-winning artist paints using elephant dung.

Exceedingly Obvious Reflections on the Construction "Noun" + Phobia

The construction "noun + phobic" supposedly meaning "irrational fear of x,y,z noun" is quite widespread in "psychiatry", psychology, the "social sciences" and political culture and politics too.

It is a dubious construction, borrowed from the pseudo-science of psychiatry for dubious and sometimes morally questionable motives.

Possibly it's first use was in "hydrophobic" with relation to a strong and irrational - possibly "irresistible" - fear of water - an undoubted psychological near-physiological symptom of the physical illness of rabies.

It seems that this use dates back to about 1759 and that the word also meant "madness".

Now a point to make straight away with regard to political language is that "disliking or disagreeing with something" simply cannot be the same as being scared of it or having a strong (and irrational) fear of it.

For example, if I genuinely don't particularly like the taste of carrots when I eat them and I spit them out, I cannot possibly be "carrotphobic."

And of course an obvious point that follows from this is that therefore anyone can apply this term to someone who opposes them.

For example, if someone is a socialist and there is someone who disagrees with them the socialist (whatever that term means) can conceivably call his opponent "socialism-phobic" if he choses to; and could obviously use this as a tactic rather than say arguing with his opponent.

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Kenan Malik has written an article questioning among other things whether there really is such a thing as "islamophobia"..
http://www.kenanmalik.com/essays/prospect_islamophobia.html


Thomas Szasz makes the point (in his set of esssays "The Medicalisation of Everyday Life" (2007)) that until about 1970 homosexuality or homosexual behaviour was an "illness" - whereas now aversion to homosexuality is - if not an illness - stigmatised, condemned and given a quasi-medical term - "homophobia".

"The Medicalisation of Everyday Life" (2007) is a very important set of essays that deal with
philosophical issues as well as the lie of "mental illness."
The breadth of learning is very wide.
It is a loss and a disgrace that it is not more highly regarded and read.

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If a piece of terminology with the meaning "(supposedly) irrational aversion to gay behaviour" is insisted upon; then surely "gayfobia" or more accurately "antigayism" would really be improvements as terms; even on the terms of those who insist we employ such politicized propagandistic buzzwords.

Especially for offended (Ancient) Greek-speakers of the world!!! :)

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