Simon E:
Hi Hermetically Sealed,
Hermetically Sealed:
I think it's just a measure of how sheltered a life the young person has lived. In other words a measure of how naive the individual is about the nature of the "beast" (mental health system). Most teenagers have already figured out that the mental health system is mostly a perverse and destructive scam; a deceptive and often violent advertising front for the pharmaceutical cartel, and so they know quite rightly that it's better to go to prison than to "ask for help". In prison there's a zero percent chance that you'll end up strapped down against your will with electrodes on your temples and then be continually subjected to high voltage electric shock, chemically sedated against your will, or worse. These things are still happening. Kids who've lived a sheltered life however might think that it's OK to ask for help for really small things..
You know, I don't think I know a single teenager that has figured out 'that the mental health system is mostly a perverse and destructive scam'.
I know some. There's a whole generation who is becoming clued in about such things. They've read popular novels such as 'the girl with the dragon tattoo' which bring it out into the open a little bit.
I do however know a number of people working within or around the mental health system who are kind and caring people that look to help and not harm.
"You want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny are inherently monstrous.
The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine. Benevolent, friendly, nice to the children, even nice to their slaves. Caring about other people. I mean, as individuals they may be anything, but in their insitutional role, they’re monsters, because the institution is monstrous."
-Noam Chomsky
I also know people working in a maximum security prison and after hearing their stories your advice that prison is a better option than seeking the help from the mental health system seems very odd to me.
With the prison system you have a legal framework which you can use to secure your eventual release. Within the mental healthcare system you can be locked away indefinitely without any legal recourse. You can be made to act insane via forced drugging so that those in authority never have to let you go and have plenty of evidence of "insane behavior" to point to.
Would you care to elaborate on what experiences your views of the mental health system are based?
I don't have any personal experience with the mental healthcare system whatsoever I've just conducted extensive research into the abuses that go on there. Allow me to present you with some documentation:
“The Depatterning Treatment of Schizophrenia,” 1962
http://www.naomiklein.org/files/resources/pdfs/depatterning.pdf
"In this paper, Ewen Cameron advocates using a combination of electroshock, barbiturates and sensory deprivation to disrupt patients’ sense of time and space. "
^ This was rolled out as a standard treatment and hundreds of thousands of patients were subjected to it against their will and it is still on going. It can be argued that this is actually worse for the patient than the lobotomy procedure that was routinely performed on individuals against their will by the same institution in a previous decades. This regresses the human being back to an infantile state, they lose their memory and literally become brain dead. Go research it.
“Sensory Deprivation: Effects upon the Functioning Human in Space Systems,” 1960
http://www.naomiklein.org/files/resources/pdfs/sensory.pdf
Ewen Cameron delivered this speech at the Brooks Air Force base in 1960 and discusses how sensory deprivation “produces the primary symptoms of schizophrenia.”
^ Here you have the same doctor giving a briefing about how sensory deprivation actually creates schizophrenia symptoms, note that 4 years later he's recommending it as part of a "cure" for schizophrenia. This shows that he was actually aware the entire time that he was recommending a torture technique as a treatment. This is because the whole system was designed as a mechanism of social control, to make people crazy and keep people crazy not as a system of treatment. He later goes on to contribute to the CIA manual on torture. This is all out in the open now, has been for a decade or more.
http://www.amazon.com/Psychiatry-CIA-Victims-Mind-Control/dp/0880483636/
http://psychrights.org/horrors.htm
I'm also curious what it is you propose that people do instead of seeking professional psychological help for their mental issues.
Seek help anywhere you can as long as it's clearly outside the psychiatric system, but if you do decide that your symptoms are so severe that you absolutely can't get help anywhere else then absolutely retain the services of a qualified attorney before hand to make sure that you're doing everything possible to protect yourself first.
http://psychrights.org/index.htm
I'll also mention that people very dear to me have sought and obtained help within the mental health system and would likely be in far worse shape today if they had not.
I'm not arguing that it doesn't help some people I'm merely suggesting that the risks are not worth the potential reward.
excellent films on this including alternative solutions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsqDyEMkLpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hj49xDEXow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFhm-xhQocM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBQY4XAUgI