"It's a condition and not a choice!"

"It's a condition and not a choice!"

Depression and Anxiety (Link).

This org's "channel" chose to block my comment ("If that is the case, how can he be helped?") in reply to the one above about this young man. Fair enuff. Maybe I was too cheeky in the end.

The channel managers did not have Citizens Sofa Aversion Disorder - they made the choice to deliberately block me.

My contention is that in the case of the chap here referred to - his so-called "condition" is ultimately in some way his choice.

Generally speaking, my contention is that the opposite to the headline comment above is the case :-
ID EST :
"It is a choice and cannot be a "condition"."

The belief that our behaviours and feelings are beyond our own control is a highly damaging falsehood.
Obviously so.

Does he have to look in the newspaper every morning to see what the DepressionAndAnxiety Forecast is? - like looking for the Pollen Count or the Meteorology/Weather forecast?

Do I mean to imply this chap is "malingering" in some way? Whatever that means....

Not at all. I merely mean that usually such stresses have a cause and don't just fall from the sky so to speak.

If CBT is used to challenge negative thorts or feelings well then there is a contradiction since the ideology of "mental illness" says that this man has a "condition" which makes such things inevitable.

So the mere ideology is damaging and not just the possible "treatments" which for ANYONE can include imprisonment etc.

This option should NEVER be available. The people who enforce options like this are wicked criminals.
This man IMO needs defending from them. As do we all.

"Concentration camps are not reformed they are only abolished."

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A recent and retrograde step

Show me the Shakespeare play or the Renaissance essay that mentions pseudo-medical terms like "OCD" "PTSD" "paranoia" "depression" "psychosis" "neurosis" and others like them?
For that matter, show me the Ancient Greek play that mentions terms like these!
Show me a post-Enlightenment, pre-1850s work that does!

There is of course not one!

This wasn't because they went "undiagnosed" or hadn't been discovered; but because they did not exist then, do not exist now and cannot logically ever exist!

No behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease. That's not what diseases are!
The medicalization of everyday life is a recent and retrograde development!

In fact, whilst the human condition does not and cannot change as the Renaissance humanists believed - our culture has since then imensely degraded in some ways; and a greater understanding of human behaviour is probably gained by experiencing Shakespeare than by psychiatry text books!

I am sure there are young folk doing Literature A-Level or Bac at the same time as Psychology A-Level or Bac.
The contrast is probably quite stark between the two.
Between amazing literature from most of history before the last century or so that IN NO WAY mentions "mental illness" in the case of the Literature A-Level; and then between the Psychology one which is probably full of more recent and often more drab writings that most likely go on about NOTHING BUT so-called "Mental Illness" or "Mental Disorder".

The Nobel Prize for Mutilation, 1949.

The Nobel Prize for Mutilation, 1949.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Mutilation 1949

The award that this man won in 1949 needs to be rescinded in the name of human decency and for the dignity of the science of Medicine.

To be clear and conciliatory once again, what is left of "mental illness" as an ideology and what is left of "Psychiatry" as a discipline - and they are going through a final spurt of life - need to distance themselves very clearly, and differentiate themselves very clearly, from the most glaring crimes and abuses of what has gone before in their name.

The award above was made at a different time from ours. We need to be clear about what the differences are. For example, before W.W.2 and Nazism in the earlier part of the previous century, ideas like "eugenics" had a far more widespread currency within Medicine and culture in general.

We can thank our defeat of Nazism for having the effect of putting an end to this tendency and others like it.

Fully establishing human rights and freedoms for all would be a tribute to those who fought Fascism/Nazism.
It would be realizing the vision of people like Sir Winston Churchill who fought the war and sustained its aftermath, with the open hope for and the open belief in a better world to come here on our tiny planet.

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A POST SCRIPTUM -

I personally have a great deal of respect for Nobel Prizes and there very noble intentions and founder.

I don't think there is really any precedent for rescinding any Nobel Prizes in any discipline. The above is definitely a case for setting that precedent.

And while we are on the subject of the Nobel Prizes - the entire prize for "Economics"  - the most recently instituted in 1969 - should be rescinded since there is no discipline nor science to award the Prize for. :) 
"Economics is Politics".

"O.C.D." OBVIOUSLY COMPLETE DOGSHIT!

"O.C.D." - OBVIOUSLY COMPLETE DOGSHIT! 

Last night on Radio 4 there was a long charitable appeal for a people with an "illness" that they "suffered" from - sometimes for years - called "O.C.D."

This illness - "OCD" - simply does not exist.

It is a scandal that Radio 4 uses its highly reputable charity slot for propagating a LIE and a DECEIT.

All we are dealing with are thort patterns and behaviors.

Seeing these as an illness is worse than any illness.

This is a SELF-PERPETUATING and SELF-CREATING FAKE ILLNESS.

Supposed illnesses like these are often exaggerated aspects of HUMAN NATURE.

The consequences of believing in non-illnesses like these are potentially catastrofic.

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"Psychiatry" of all kinds is intellectual DOGSHIT that needs to be cleaned up very, very badly.

At present the society we have makes scupltures out of this dogshit rather than cleaning it up!

In fact our society has it pipelined in to every part of our culture.

I am fed up with feeling like the only intellectual to point out this obvious reality ! 

A society free from prejudice?

A society free from prejudice?

A society free from prejudice is impossible until it is free from Psychiatry.

Psychiatry IS prejudice, oppression and injustice writ large.

"Neurosis" and its related term "Psychosis" are NON-SCIENTIFIC, FAKE terms.

"Neurosis" and its related term "Psychosis" are NON-SCIENTIFIC, FAKE terms.


Both are FAKE terms.

Both terms come from around the same period - the late 1800s. Both were used by Freud and Freudians.

"Psychosis" is ultimately a fake way of saying you disapprove or diagree with someone's beliefs or thorts. Ostensibly it means a "break with reality". Well - how does this exclude a simple mistake? And who defines "reality"?
Beliefs aren't illnesses. And cannot be.

"Neurosis" is a way of saying that you disapprove of someone's thorts or feelings and that you believe that has something to do with their nerves - though you have never examined their physical nerves.
In fact as I have said before "Neurosis" has NOTHING to do with the nerves and is not supposed to!
"Worrisome" is another way of saying "neurotic" - and no more precise in ANY type of discourse.


Also - I will repeat that "a nervous breakdown" is a FAKE TERM.

IF it means "a life crisis" and has NOTHING OBSERVABLY related to the nervous system then it is a misleading, fake term.


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It is time to tidy up our entire global culture - into which terminology like this has been spilled.
Like after a horrendous oil tanker disaster, which happened around 1900! :)

The point is these are supposedly scientific terms - and yet are not.
That means that the task of finding more accurate ways of describing our problems is vital.

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"?......