I'm blessed to be on helpful treatments. I like my counselor. I'm making progress, both according to the "experts" and my own assessment. having said that...

...doesn't it seem like Mental Health, Inc. --creates-- "mental patients" ? And victims? I breezed into a psychiatrist's office, age 18, with problems I could have dealt with, had I been given proper guidance and if someone had...I dunno...helped me grow up. By age 23, I'd been through dependence on both benzodiazepines and prescription amphetamines. Not only were these drugs given to me by psychiatrists, I was blamed for the prescriptions when I was put in a (private, for profit) hospital, age 20. "treatment" was punitive and painful.

Age 23, I was more or less on the rubbish heap of society, so when I went nuts, shrinks in a "high quality" hospital gave me heavy shock treatments, without my consent. I've only now recovered, which is a miracle.

My personal story aside...I'm not the only one. The therapists and counselors have to keep the income stream going, so they warp your mind and create a lifelong customer, plus they label you. The psychiatrists have their dogma and pills and shock treatments to destroy your ability to self-regulate, and again: labels and stigma.

I'm --not-- saying mental distress, even straight up madness, isn't real. It is, obviously. But is psychology and psychiatry really the way to deal with it?

For the record, I'm not all that angry, not now. I do this vitamin thing...Orthomolecular...along with my Rx treatments. I'm remarkably lucid, normal, healthy, etc. I've been blessed with what I need and a little extra in life, and I'm moving forward. Its just..

...I can't help but feel that Mental Health, Inc. is a bunch of lies, stigma, control, and straight up fraud. I dunno.

What do you think?