Mental Health Commission

[BCseawalker]

Don't know where else to put this without creating a new thread.

Here's my latest post: Mental Health & Religion - A comparison. While the MHCC isn't the topic of the post per se, I do include a link to the Commission's website.

The post begins this way.

The more I think about it, the more the Mental Health Industrial Complex (MHIC) appears to me to be no more than the secular version of the Religious Industrial Complex (RIC). Indeed, the MHIC is well set up to take over the de facto functions of the RIC...

Still struggling with the blogging thing. The bloggers on BnR are amazing. No way am I ever likely to be as prolific or insightful.

[Toedancer]

I wrote a couple of comments recently under various articles I vehemently disagreed with.
One was re: warring or regime change in Syria/Iran, not about the nukes at all, but about the oil again. U.S. lost control in '79 and want it back, but with their timing blah blah.
The other was re: ACTA/PIPA/Bill C-30/UN etc., wanting control of the net so there is no organizing to fight the system and the corporations who compel our gov'ts to make all the decision that benefit them and leave us out of it. I believe I also said it would take a million of us alone in Canada and the U.S. each, taking to the streets to get the msg. across. In any case I was called a loony lefter as usual and I'm just sick to death of the 'loony' label. Came across this well written article by a psychologist: Would they have drugged Einstein, a natural anti-authoritarian with common sense.
http://www.alternet.org/health/154225/would_we_have_drugged_up_einstein_how_anti-authoritarianism_is_deemed_a_mental_health_problem/?page=entire


We have swung back to the dark age. Pity.

[Debra]

That's a great article Toe and says many of the things I have been saying in conversation recently. If you aren't walking around with shiny happy people face you must need drugs. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain or cellphone.

[greenvie]

Excellent article, Toe!  Brings up a lot of feelings for me, both from my younger life and now too. I did some therapy with a friend (I know, transference, blah, blah) some years ago who turned me on to a myriad of alternatives to clinical psychology. Learned a lot from him about stuff (history of the Greens, deep ecology, gay rights, feminism, etc.) I had only looked at somewhat peripherally. He always tied psychology & counseling with politics. Very aware of the role of oppression in mental health issues. I could almost write a book about our discussions, never mind the smattering of actual therapy I did with him. Changed my life deeply. Met him at a time of traumatic loss in my family.

One branch comes to mind - Radical Psychology. You might enjoy perusing these:

http://radicalpsychology.org/

http://www.claudesteiner.com/rpbrief.htm

Radical Psychiatry holds that all functional psychiatric difficulties are forms of alienation resulting from the mystified oppression of people who are isolated from each other.

People's alienation is the result of power abuse and is therefore a political matter. Any person in the practice of psychiatry (Greek; psyche=soul, iatria=healing) becomes involved in the personal politics of those he or she attempts to help, either as an ally or as an oppressor; there is no chance of neutrality for a person with power, in an oppressive situation. In order to be helpful, any person who claims to practice soul healing needs to become an ally against the oppressive influences in the lives of those he or she is attempting to help.

The "loony left" comments need to be asserted for what they are. Giving me ideas.

[Toedancer]

Didn't want to start a new thread.


This is just EVIL, the Cons want to come down hard on crimes of the mentally disabled.


http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2013/02/governments-next-anti-crime-salvo-to-target-mentally-ill.html


After Ashley Smith, I just don't know where they get the nerve to do these things.