It’s not - try doing some research beyond the end of your nose. There are an amazing number of posters on this site who do no reading, no research, but post anyhow as tho they know something about the topic.
Read this site as just a starter:
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/
They say the same thing - and explicitly say they are not part of and want no connection with scientology or any of its organizations.
People who post threads want a discussion, not BS. If you have anything to add for or against the topic of this article then say so - don’t bring in irrelevancies.
Last modified November 26, 2005. A little Zoloft might snap them out of it.
Would it be considered irrelevant to note that none of the first 14 articles at the website were written by medical professionals?
If you developed symptoms that some might attribute to ‘mental illness’, would you tend to visit a doctor or a lawyer?
There are 4 articles written by drs a little further down the page, 3 of which are decry the overprescription of Ritalin, or the lack of ethics of some psychiatrists, or how the drug companies have corrupted psychiatry. Only 1 article really advances a positive agenda, Douglas C Smith’s article discusses his alternate, family centered, approach. All of which are valid points of contention, but speak little to the efficacy of psychiatric meds.
One can argue the point that involuntary commitments are bad, wrong, whatever, but that certainly does not touch on the notion of whether or not mental illness is ‘real’. Having involuntarily committed my mother twice in the last 10 years, it was either that or she would have turned up dead in an alley somewhere. Her rights were well respected both times.
The agenda of this site seems more legal than medical, and speaking from my own personal experience, I’m likely to pay more attentions to the docs than the lawyers.