I’m a retired psychiatric nurse with over 40 years of experience and I’m with Thomas on this one, what a racket mental health is. Just before I finished with mental health I was a project officer reviewing the prescribing of stimulant medication within the mental health service. This was triggered by a psychiatrist who was prescribing it just about for everyone. Consequently, a deluge of psychotic people were popping up interfering with the admission psychiatrist sense of stability. It was not that they thought ADHD was incorrect but that people with a history of psychosis shouldn’t be getting stimulant meds. Farcically, the review concluded that public mental health should not be burdened with these people and transfer of these people to the private field was the solution. So ADHD diagnosis was to be the domain of the private psychiatrists with ongoing prescribing by a willing GP with regular reviews by said private psychiatrist. Interestingly, the public psychiatrists could continue to prescribe if a referral was made externally by a private psychiatrist or admission to the public mental health service rendered the relationship shared. Not only was the psychiatrist which triggered this internal self flagellation insightless so was the whole system. So many laws were broken including the transfers of S8 drugs interstate, no one was charged with any offences. The psychiatrist stood down on full pay in this soap box drama returned to work sometime post the review. What I saw when reviewing many of his victims was, failure to cope, the hallmark of Personality Disorder. Hidden within though, was a cauldron of fears, worries and insecurities typical of anxiety. In its current form psychiatry is dangerous and to be avoided at all costs. I’d recommend no one fall under it’s spell. Yet we have a willing cohort, lost in the warren of their social feeds emanating from their smart phones, eager to be pathologised. I guess it’s easier to accept brain dysfunction then to accept some internal friction precipitating said feelings. Then one can say, “it’s not me it’s my chemical brain soup not working right”.
I’m a clinical Counsellor in a drug and alcohol rehab. Most of my clients under the age of 30 want a diagnosis of something or other except for a personality disorder of course. I admit I fall into the trap of wanting to provide them with a quick fix, an easy diagnosis and some kind of solution. Young people feel so hopeless and have been poisoned in one way or another. Thank you for your work.
I’m a retired psychiatric nurse with over 40 years of experience and I’m with Thomas on this one, what a racket mental health is. Just before I finished with mental health I was a project officer reviewing the prescribing of stimulant medication within the mental health service. This was triggered by a psychiatrist who was prescribing it just about for everyone. Consequently, a deluge of psychotic people were popping up interfering with the admission psychiatrist sense of stability. It was not that they thought ADHD was incorrect but that people with a history of psychosis shouldn’t be getting stimulant meds. Farcically, the review concluded that public mental health should not be burdened with these people and transfer of these people to the private field was the solution. So ADHD diagnosis was to be the domain of the private psychiatrists with ongoing prescribing by a willing GP with regular reviews by said private psychiatrist. Interestingly, the public psychiatrists could continue to prescribe if a referral was made externally by a private psychiatrist or admission to the public mental health service rendered the relationship shared. Not only was the psychiatrist which triggered this internal self flagellation insightless so was the whole system. So many laws were broken including the transfers of S8 drugs interstate, no one was charged with any offences. The psychiatrist stood down on full pay in this soap box drama returned to work sometime post the review. What I saw when reviewing many of his victims was, failure to cope, the hallmark of Personality Disorder. Hidden within though, was a cauldron of fears, worries and insecurities typical of anxiety. In its current form psychiatry is dangerous and to be avoided at all costs. I’d recommend no one fall under it’s spell. Yet we have a willing cohort, lost in the warren of their social feeds emanating from their smart phones, eager to be pathologised. I guess it’s easier to accept brain dysfunction then to accept some internal friction precipitating said feelings. Then one can say, “it’s not me it’s my chemical brain soup not working right”.
Dictatorship dressed up as democracy. Idealistic fantasy squashed.
I’m a clinical Counsellor in a drug and alcohol rehab. Most of my clients under the age of 30 want a diagnosis of something or other except for a personality disorder of course. I admit I fall into the trap of wanting to provide them with a quick fix, an easy diagnosis and some kind of solution. Young people feel so hopeless and have been poisoned in one way or another. Thank you for your work.