Re: "Mental Health" Bill.
One of the concerns is to "protect the public."
At what point did so-called "mentally ill" people stop being members of the public themselves?
I know this may be either patently obvious or hard to admit, but people with mental health problems/mentally ill whatever you want to call them
are....
wait for it
*drum roll*
HUMANS.
Consequently people so designated undoubtedly can avail themselves of whatever human rights there are.
Furthermore, the question must be asked:
Do those designated as having mental health problems (as members of the public) have the right to be protected from psychiatrists and the harm that psychiatrists can do to them?
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The truth is that psychiatry as a historical phenomenon has done more harm and committed more crime - than anything that any so-called "mentally ill person" - which is a meaningless and arbitrary distinction - has ever done.
One of the concerns is to "protect the public."
At what point did so-called "mentally ill" people stop being members of the public themselves?
I know this may be either patently obvious or hard to admit, but people with mental health problems/mentally ill whatever you want to call them
are....
wait for it
*drum roll*
HUMANS.
Consequently people so designated undoubtedly can avail themselves of whatever human rights there are.
Furthermore, the question must be asked:
Do those designated as having mental health problems (as members of the public) have the right to be protected from psychiatrists and the harm that psychiatrists can do to them?
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The truth is that psychiatry as a historical phenomenon has done more harm and committed more crime - than anything that any so-called "mentally ill person" - which is a meaningless and arbitrary distinction - has ever done.