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Originally Posted by Ididitmyway
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NAMI is a Pharma funded "consumer" organization that promotes the idea of mental illness being genetic and advocate for drugging people for every single thing you could drug them for. They are all about pushing psych drugs on people whenever possible. Stay away from them. They are also the ones who need to be exposed for what they do.
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I agree.
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Originally Posted by Ididitmyway
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That's right. They [Mad in America] are more about exposing psychiatric abuse when people are drugged for no good reason and the trauma they endure as a result, which is more severe in many cases than the trauma of therapy survivors, because their physical organs often get damaged.
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I don't know that psychiatric abuse is always worse than the interpersonal trauma that therapy survivors experience, though. It may be more obvious sometimes. And stuff like lobotomies -- how awful was that!
My sense of self was damaged before I went into therapy, and then the therapy process, and individual therapists "with their own issues", continued the damage. How much they worsened it is maybe a matter for debate, but it's been a lifelong issue for me, my "self" couldn't get out of the dungeon/black hole it was in, which current therapy just perpetuated, while I was trusting them because, as SorryOozit said, I needed to, or felt I "should" trust the "experts", licensed by my government as professional helpers. Since I didn't have a strong, integrated self, despite my best efforts. Or something.
My life is almost over. I have known other now senior citizens in real-life support groups who started therapy early their adult life. Some eventually quit, some are still going! They did not find a way to live up to their potential.
So, I may have lucked out. That still remains somewhat to be seen.
It seems to me that some psychiatric survivors did not have the damage to the sense of self that I, and others I know, did. Maybe it's just how symptoms of early trauma manifest differently in different people.
I think what happened to me was horrible. I know, now, that I am not alone with this kind of thing. That's beginning to give me a certain kind of strength I didn't have before. I wish the best for all psychiatric survivors. I support them in their work and their recovery. I hope that they can find a way to support those of us whose symptoms are somewhat less overtly, obviously "mad". But first, yeah, I have to find a way to talk about it.
Venting here on PC, where I can try to learn to do that -- in a social environment that can allow a connection to grow between my heart and my throat (voice) sometimes. . .maybe that will help. Right now, I just don't know what else to "do".