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       The Screwyness of People on Psych Drugs
   DIR By: forbitals
       Date: June 26, 2019, 4:16 pm
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       We don’t want people to be on prescription or street drugs,
       especially those prescription drugs which serve no purpose
       except mood alteration.
       No street drugs are very hard to regulate effectively. Often
       efforts to control have the opposite of the intended effect.
       But with prescription drugs, these are being distributed through
       prescriptions written by the holders of government licenses.
       With psychiatric drugs, we should be able to cut that off cold.
       As far as individuals, patients, clients, survivors, undoubtedly
       we all have been through horrendous things. But the answer is
       not drugs.
       And no, you don’t want to work with or associate with people who
       use psych drugs. They are not making the monumental life long
       effort to be able to live within their own skin. I helped put a
       guy in our state prison for molesting his daughters, and most of
       his defense was a ~mental illness~ defense. He let white coats
       turn his midlife crisis into a ~mental illness~ issue. And from
       that point on he was afraid to feel his feelings, and afraid to
       be without his drugs.
       I wanted the daughters to sue him. They haven’t. But I think the
       defendant, now a convict, should be able to sue our mental
       health system.
       I don’t mean to sound like I am shaming individuals, I know
       people have survived horrendous things, especially familial
       abuses. But drugs are not the answer, political activism and
       legal redress are the answer.
       People who believe in drugs are, as I have seen, “screwy”. It’s
       because they don’t want to feel their feelings. So really, best
       to have no communication with them, to avoid senseless conflict.
       Another man I know had a kind of a nervous breakdown, simulated
       by career collapse. But it is also because he does not believe
       in feeling his feelings.
       So now he is on drugs. People tell him to throw them away. But
       no. He gives a stereotypical description of a homeless man, as
       you might see in any large US city. He says that these drugs are
       the only thing stopping him from becoming like that.
       So he goes with the socially functional interpretation. Anyone
       who is not “socially functional” is ~mentally ill~.
       It is impossible to deal with someone like this guy. Again, best
       strategy is just zero communication. Non-profit he was
       volunteering for recently 86ed him.
       It’s not senseless shaming, it’s just the only practical
       solution to people who don’t want to feel their feelings, and
       who are going to try to manage their feelings via drugs.
       And Sera, I can see now why you wrote articles to the Boston
       Globe which really created the impression that the Murphy Bill
       and its involuntary drugging must be in some cases necessary.
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