Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Coming to Terms With Mental Illness

You can come to terms with a mental illness diagnosis by understanding the term and idea of mental illness. How can something like the mind be ill? Can the mind be literally ill? Can a joke be literally sick?

Perhaps read books by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz to come to terms with a mental illness diagnosis. Some of his books include Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, The Myth of Mental Illness, Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences, and Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine. He wrote about 35 books. I recommend them.

Monday, May 29, 2017

Educate People About Psychiatric Slavery

We must outlaw psychiatric slavery. Read the book Psychiatric Slavery by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Educate people about psychiatric slavery. Psychiatric slavery is when people earn money from psychiatric force, coercion, and confinement.

Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz believed that civil commitment and the insanity defense form the foundation of psychiatric slavery. Therefore, civil commitment, and the insanity defense should be banned and outlawed. Suicide Should be respected as a civil and human right for adults. This does not mean that suicide is good or desirable. This means that psychiatric force, coercion, and confinement should be outlawed, and we should only be using persuasion, reason, and kindness to stop adults from engaging in suicide in private. It should be illegal to attempt suicide in public view.

Thomas Szasz wrote over thirty books related to psychiatry and human rights. Some of these books include Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide, Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine, The Myth of Mental Illness, Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences, and Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market. You should read books that Thomas Szasz wrote.

Thousands of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and so forth all earn money from psychiatric coercion, force, and confinement. This is psychiatric slavery, and psychiatric slavery should be outlawed. Educate people about psychiatric slavery, and about why it should be outlawed.

Monday, May 15, 2017

Psychiatric Slavery Is Wrong

Psychiatric slavery is when people earn money from psychiatric coercion, force, and confinement.

Psychiatric Thomas Szasz believed that civil commitment and the insanity defense form the foundation of psychiatric slavery. Psychiatric slavery should be outlawed. Civil commitment and the insanity defense should be outlawed.

Suicide should be respected as a civil and human right for adults. I am not saying that suicide is good. It will be good if we can reduce suicides to zero. However, we should not use psychiatric force, coercion, and confinement to reduce suicides. We should use persuasion, reason, and kindness to reduce suicides. Read the book Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine, or Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide. Both books are by Thomas Szasz.

Suicide is a moral and ethical issue. It is wrong to medicalize suicide in order to justify psychiatric force, coercion, and confinement.

The insanity defense should be outlawed. Insanity is subjective. Read the book by psychiatric Thomas Szasz, Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences. If people are authentically a danger to others, then they have likely broken a law. They should be dealt with criminally, not diverted into psychiatric systems. If someone has not broken a law, then they should be able to enjoy the right to be left along.

You can help to outlaw psychiatric slavery by informing people about what psychiatric slavery is and why it should be illegal. You can encourage people to read books that psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote. You can tell your elected government law makers like Senators, Representatives, Governors, and so forth that psychiatric slavery should be outlawed. You can encourage journalists to write about and cover psychiatric slavery.

Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote a book entitled Psychiatric Slavery. I, Michael Ten, have written and published a short book entitled Outlaw Psychiatric Slavery; it is available on Amazon. Most of the books by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz are also available on Amazon. Please help to outlaw psychiatric slavery.