Mental illness as Consumer Product

Mental illness is a recent tool used by the government and people in power to control other people. Thus the psychotropic drugs are not used to cure the illness -- this is evidenced by the lifetime use of the drugs - but to create symptoms that can be attributed to the illness itself, rather than to drug toxicity and brain dysfunction actually caused by said drugs.

This is not to imply that mental illness does not exist but to point out that prior to the commercialization of mental health, what we call mentally ill people were shamans, priests, and diviners.

To illustrate this, there is the incident of a Burmese priest who picked a louse off his robe, and declared that he had no right to kill this pest even though such creatures are harmful to animals and man, alike. The point is, religious compassion like this also seems like mental illness when we follow rigidly the Western paradigm involving hygiene.

I would submit that much of what is called mental illness is actually supposedly mentally healthy people in authority projecting their fears about people behaving outside of society's narrow paradigms, paradigms arbitrarily abused by people in power in order to maintain their power and control over others, i.e. behavior management.

Indeed, this is calculated behavior by dominant people in power, because they fear loss of control since in most situations involving people upon which they project their fears, the person they fear is out of their control completely.

In conclusion, what I have said so far implies that it may well be that people in power tend to have a phobia about mental illness but may be more dangerous than you or I will ever be, because of their willingness to abuse power in order to keep one of their peers powerless, just because of the way they initially treat him prior to his psychological collapse.

Mental Health Consumer Rights

I am a consumer of mental health services. I have the same rights as any other consumer. That includes the right to make my own informed decisions about treatment.

Forced treatment is force, not treatment. More damage is done by forced treatment than by no treatment.

If a friend or family member has a disorder that is causing difficulty in their lives, they are aware that something is wrong. If they are using denial, it is because they are afraid, because they don't know what's wrong or they don't believe there is help. If you can find printed information and make it available to them without pushing it on them, that would be best. The least awkward method is usually the most direct: "Pam, I saw this information and it seemed to be describing you, so I'm passing it on in case you can use it. If you don't think it fits, ignore it." If you can't say that comfortably, perhaps you can find a mutual friend who can?

If their disorder is not causing a problem to them, then is there anything you really should do? If society can tolerate only a narrow set of thought and behavior, maybe society needs shaking up.


Unless a person is at risk for potential harm towards themselves or others through action, then their rights cannot be violated.

If people object to another person's opinion merely for exercise of his or her free speech, provide that he or she does not promote the use of violence against others, then the laws of society require that they do not use violence or violent language to object to his or her freedom of speech.

It is not a democracy when the majority of the people still violate the rights of a minority. This is still mob rule.