I hope there's a special place in hell for head shrinkers.

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I am so sick of the abuse. The psychiatric mental health system is outrageously twisted and unjust to all of it's survivors. Who the heck is anybody to just threaten to lock someone up for being depressed? Last time I checked, having depression was not a crime. Last time I checked, I had the right to choose whether I decide to fill my body with painful side-effect producing prescription pills, or not. It's all a business. They need me to take their pills-- psychiatrists have to pay bills too, right? Pharmaceutical companies are the most powerful corporations at this moment. The highest rates of addictions amongst Americans are to prescription medications. Those greedy bastards don't give a s**t about me. I have a right to be depressed if it damn well pleases me to be that way. I get a lot of insight into my situation and learn way more about myself and what I really need out of this meaningless life. My experiences may not mean anything to anybody else, but they do to me. Nature doesn't make mistakes. I am ashamed to be a part of the human species. No other species on this earth puts living creatures in cages. Only human beings do that. People think they have the right to treat me like an incompetent, insignificant little stain because they have cerification in mental illnesses. Someone who doesn't know me, thinks they have the right to tell me how I should live my life. Where's the empowerment and support in that? Inadecuate people on their high horses, always trying to run my life or controlling my life and I end up having to pay for it. It's an injustice. I have never had any rights in my life. That's why I'm depressed. Maybe if people let me be and quit smothering me so damn much, I can stop being depressed! I don't hurt anybody, I never bother anybody! I just sit in my room and mind my own damn business every damn day. I'm not a child anymore. I'm too damn old to have to be worrying about the same s**t all my life.

I get you completely, I've had to deal with the fun of psychologists almost all my life, from being in and out of the court system for completely ridiculous things. I feel the same way. HOWEVER, through my ordeals with psychiatrists, I've basically learned a lot about people in general. So for me, I guess I see it all as a terribly arduous learning experience. Basically, what I didn't intuitively know about humans, I learned through being around psychologists my whole damned life. Psychiatrists are not your friends. For me anyway, it seemed like they created a problem and are solving the problem they're created. So, the only thing you can do is withdraw from psychiatry the best you can, or wait for them to solve the problem they themselves created.

I'd pretty much say, if you can, and you're not under court order, just run far away from those psychologists, and instead just try to make friends to give you emotional support if you need it.

In a lot of ways, psychiatry exists for the same reason priests, clergy, churches, etc, do. Basically, people want a judge on what's normal, what's moral, etc. Before throughout history, it was religion that determined these social norms for people. Then, as society got less religious, psychiatry came in to fill the gap, with something I believe that's MUCH worse or at the very least, just as bad. People complain about separation of church and state and whatever, and it's legitimate, but psychiatry literally makes the "rules" of society. So instead of a society being religious based, it just ends up getting ruled silently by a few guys (who probably aren't mentally right anyway) writing the next DSM. For example, in psychiatry, up until DSM-IV, homosexuality was a disorder. Now it's not. So which is right? You go from locking up people for it to saying it's completely normal and acceptable? So in essence, psychology is the moral police. Really, it's not terribly different from being in Iran and having the moral police go and beat you up or imprison you for like, doing something un-Islamic.

if you look at psychiatry's roots the way it started was to figure out how to control people's minds. that explains most of what you see today.

Some of the most genocidal, murderous individuals are psychiatrists. Prime examples are Radovan Karadžić, Nidal Malik Hasan, and Colin Bouwer. I'm sure that there are some people that psychiatrists help, but I cannot think of any.

I was once lectured about how good honesty was by a psychiatrist. When he lectured me, we were in a room with two other people. However, a couple of weeks later, he offered to pay me to come to his house and modify his cable service to get premium channels. I cannot see any situation where I need a psychiatrist.

Been there, done that, too. I will NEVER go back to a shrink again. All they did was try to piss me off as many ways as they possibly could, and then tell me that all of the verbal and emotional abuse I've endured and suffered throughout my entire life was all my fault! GRRRR!! !! !

i guess i was lucky in the head shrinking department, all my shrink wrappers were nice people - or at least well-meaning.

I kind of know how you feel.....except I have not had to talk to many mental health professionals or whatever yet, and a lot of that is why I don't really want to. At the same time though I am running out of options so I feel like I might end up having to deal with some of that crap.........I guess I should just make sure I remember my rights and don't fall for any of their games. But yeah I don't like things forced on me so I am kind of worried if I do try and get any professional help they'll just make things worse.

I saw one shrink in my life. She tried to tell me how to run my life and her goal was to make me dress and act like my NT peers. That was back in 1998 and 1999. No, thank you. I stopped seeing her after two years, and I will never talk to a shrink, again.