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Thank you for this link. this seems right up my alley - I'm trying to avoid being an uninformed critic. i've had bad experiences in my life with psychiatry, bee

Thank you for this link. this seems right up my alley - I'm trying to avoid being an uninformed critic. i've had bad experiences in my life with psychiatry, been in and out of the system since i was 12 and witnessed a LOT of ... let's say bad practices. do you have any other suggested reading / sites for someone in my position?

tcj_phx 10y ago
> Thank you for this link. this seems right up my alley - I'm trying to avoid being an uninformed critic. You're welcome, thanks for responding. > i've had bad experiences in my life with psychiatry, been in and out of the system since i was 12 and witnessed a LOT of ... let's say bad practices. Having seen the inside of this world (as a visitor), I can sort-of imagine what you've been through. People do have problems; the system knows not that it does not always help. > do you have any other suggested reading / sites for someone in my position? depends on what you're interested in. I switch to this account whenever I have something to say about mental health, so there might be some other links there. (I just surveyed my comments, there aren't too many. I post the link to Robert Whitaker's work fairly regularly, but there are a bunch of others. They depend on the context...) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11974769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11974769 - this has a link about the monopolists' approach to medicine. I posted that comment from my phone, and didn't feel like fishing out the full link. But the article is quite helpful for illuminating the source of bias in the "Medical" world. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10974230 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10974230 - I responded to this person's comment to thank them for their link about "SSRI's" What are you interested in? anti-psychiatry? self-hacking mental health? The history of Medical Monopoly?

tcj_phx 10y ago

> Thank you for this link. this seems right up my alley - I'm trying to avoid being an uninformed critic. You're welcome, thanks for responding. > i've had bad experiences in my life with psychiatry, been in and out of the system since i was 12 and witnessed a LOT of ... let's say bad practices. Having seen the inside of this world (as a visitor), I can sort-of imagine what you've been through. People do have problems; the system knows not that it does not always help. > do you have any other suggested reading / sites for someone in my position? depends on what you're interested in. I switch to this account whenever I have something to say about mental health, so there might be some other links there. (I just surveyed my comments, there aren't too many. I post the link to Robert Whitaker's work fairly regularly, but there are a bunch of others. They depend on the context...) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11974769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11974769 - this has a link about the monopolists' approach to medicine. I posted that comment from my phone, and didn't feel like fishing out the full link. But the article is quite helpful for illuminating the source of bias in the "Medical" world. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10974230 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10974230 - I responded to this person's comment to thank them for their link about "SSRI's" What are you interested in? anti-psychiatry? self-hacking mental health? The history of Medical Monopoly?