Problems with the psych industry

Over prescriptions of drugs. Drugs often make psych issues worse. Not every patient needs drugs to get betterrelated to issue one-the influence of the pharmaceutical companies. I’m currently compiling sources for this claim. Pharmaceutical companies fund academic papers, sometimes even ghostwriting them. They create course content for medical schools. They even astroturf to romanticize mental illness. There is a profit incentive. There should not be a profit incentive in mental health care for the same reasons a for-profit prison is a bad idea. It is asking for human rights violations. The deinstitutionalization of the 1980s happened with no sustainable plan in place, shifting the most severely mentally ill to the prison system. Crisis intervention happens in the emergency room with overworked and undertrained ER employees dealing euth the mentally ill at their most agitated. I was sedated against my will when the situation did not call for it. The mentally ill ate traumatzed and made sicker by current crisis intervention systems. The severely mentally ill are not treated with respect and dignity, nor are they encouraged to have autonomy or make choices about their own treatment. Doctors are authoritave and hostile. This is a systemic problem. The patient’s quality of life is not considered when patient is being evaluated. A person who is homeless or living in an a abusive situation Is going to be under extreme stress and therefore have exacerbated symptoms and erratic behavior. Personally i wntered The me mental healrh system at 14. There was a ton of violence in my family. I was vocal about this. I was given job help to escape the situation.

If you encourage ppl to go to therapy, you have an ethical obligation to advocate to correct these issues.

Every day, people are drugged into illnesses they go not have and traumatized by a broken system that fails to help or protect them.