By Kieron McFadden

This is the third article in my series: Common Sense Guide To Psychiatry.

Potentially anyone is a psychiatric patient, even YOU, because everyaspect of human behaviour is labelled by psychiatry as being a mental illness.

A study of psychiatry's diagnostic manual will confirm this for anyone whocares to look.

Examples of nuances of human behaviour and the ups and downs of livingre-categorized as an "illness" requiring treatment include:
- Seasonal Anxiety Disorder (feeling "blue" at Christmas).
- Dyspraxia (the tendency of children to be clumsy)
- Sexual Addiction (the tendency of some people to be sexually overactive orunethical)
- Depression (feeling down after a loss, redundancy and so on.)

You are mentally ill if a psychiatrist says you are mentally ill. All thatis required for you to be labeled mentally ill is for a psychiatrist to givethat opinion. He does not have to produce, and cannot produce, anyscientifically proven yardstick or clear consistent definition of eachso-called mental disorder. He cannot produce and is not required to produce anydiagnostic criteria for adjudging that you have a disorder.

Psychiatrists are busy adding new "disorders" to their list asfast as they can dream them up.

Psychiatrists long ago discovered that they could dream up disorders at willwithout the need for any true science behind them and get away with it becausethere was in fact no independent body monitoring and scrutinizing their methodsand ensuring they measured up to rigorous scientific standards. Psychiatry hadbeen operating thus with impunity and was consequently thoroughly entrenched,for a hundred years before anyone had the wisdom to subject it to scrutiny andfound its scientific credentials to be bogus. (I refer you to the history ofthe Citizens Commission on Human Rights).

Based on his "diagnosis" of your condition, the psychiatrist canthen begin "treatment." Such treatment nowadays usually involves theadministering of powerful brain-altering drugs that do irreparable damage tothe brain and nervous system and produce a slew of unpleasant side effects.Such treatment earns revenue for the psychiatrist. He cannot make money unlesshe diagnoses you as having an illness that must be treated.

If you refuse treatment? Well, that's a disorder too, requiring treatment.

The psychiatrist can always force you to undergo treatment. He has the legalpower to commit anyone for as long as he see fit, simply based upon hisunsubstantiated diagnosis (opinion) that it is "for our own good."

Once you have been labeled mentally ill, you surrender your liberties andhuman rights to the hands of psychiatry. Essentially you've had it.

What happens to a psychiatric patient?

When you become a psychiatric patient you are administered one or more ofthe following:
Drugs to produce a malleable, zombie-like condition
ECT: Electro Convulsive Therapy, to produce a malleable zombie-like condition
Lobotomy: to produce a malleable, zombie-like condition.

The disturbingly bizarre behavior we commonly see in psychiatric patients isalmost always caused by the brain-damaging TREATMENT they have received inpsychiatric hands and NOT an alleged mental illness.