The Futility of Mental Illness Charities
Supporting people affected by [insert your disorder here]
In the two decades of having ultimately received a supposed ‘final’ diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder for a temporary bout or two of manic ill-behaviour episodes frightening those around me into getting (overly) convinced that my ‘disease of the mind’ was true I have reached another conclusion. In effect, the pointlessness of mental ill health charities sponsored by big pharma which reminds me of debt management charities sponsored by big corporate financial institutions to sort out your bad finances and habits that led there. In other words, where the industry creates the problem and then sponsors ‘the solution’ albeit one that keeps the individual in the dark about how to really sort out their life without relying on those authorities.
Common sense and lived experience is more useful than 200 years of pointless research in the mental health industry. For example, psychotropic drugging is the supposed ethical evolution of the ice pick lobotomies where chemical straight jacket lobotomies c…
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