Millions
of Americans, diagnosed as mentally ill, are drugged and confined by doctors
for non-criminal conduct, not because they are sick, but because they are
unwanted by their families and by society. Most of these psychiatric patients
are highly intelligent and capable individuals, whose native intelligence and
capabilities have been severely impaired by psychoactive drugs (neuroleptics
and antidepressants) prescribed them by their physicians. The patients are thus
pawns of those working in the psychiatric industry and the pharmaceutical
industry, whose wealth is enhanced at the expense of their naïve, unwitting
psychiatric clients, who, while living on the margins of society are told the
BIG LIE, that the drugs prescribed for them are for their benefit.
It is my
existential opinion that mental illness is a term commonly used to
de-legitimize those individuals who are unable to passively accept illogical
arguments for justifying social and economic institutions that benefit from
human exploitation. The military-industrial complex is one such
mega-institution. The psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry is another.
My opinion is apparently
shared by others, including those academicians whose visions have shaped my own
intellectual development. In the words of British phenomenologist R. D. Laing The
condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of
one’s mind, is the condition of normal man. And social adaptation to a
dysfunctional society may be very dangerous. The perfectly adjusted bomber
pilot may be a greater threat to species survival than the hospitalized
schizophrenic . . . Our society may itself have become biologically
dysfunctional, and some forms of schizophrenic alienation from the alienation
of society may have a socio-biological function that we have not recognized.
– R.D. Laing. The Politics of Experience.1967
During the maturational
process, the individual is conditioned by society and those people who are
significant to him – his parents and surrogate parents (teachers, coaches,
ministers, rabbis, drill instructors) and his peers – to suppress or deny his
own feelings and needs and distort reality in accordance with the needs of The
Ruling Class and his parents or surrogate parents. Religious dogma plays a big part
in this process of distorting reality.
Western society (including American society) is structured for the
most part by an authoritarian belief system (often masked as democracy) that
has its origins in Judaism, in which Christianity and the Islamic faith are
also rooted. Since Jewish, Christian and Islamic laws are reinforced through a
superstitious belief in the existence of a supernatural being called God,
individuals are brainwashed from childhood into accepting illogical concepts in
lieu of logical concepts as explanations for the existence of the status quo
socioeconomic political hierarchy. Thus, as an individual is gradually exposed
(through his own observations) to logical concepts, while simultaneously being
indoctrinated by The Ruling Class and his parents and/or surrogate parents into
accepting illogical concepts, he increasingly develops feelings of alienation.
For
instance: Although, there appears to be a homosexual dimension to every
man, Jewish, Christian and Islamic doctrine characterizes male homoerotic
sensations as unmanly and unnatural and as punishable by death
(Leviticus 20:13). Although homoerotic sensations are 100% masculine
sensations and a natural part of the sexual makeup of every man,
mainstream psychiatry continues to reinforce the Biblical myth that such
sensations are unmanly. I dare say there is not a man alive who does not
indulge himself in the harmless fantasy of auto-fellatio.
Men
– non officers – who are confined
together in cramped berthing areas aboard a Merchant Marine, Navy or Coast
Guard vessel for days, weeks or months at a time will, quite naturally, direct
their psychosexual energy towards one another. Thus, while homosexual behavior
may be considered abnormal among civilians who have not been deprived of
socialization with the opposite sex for significant periods of time, it is
indeed quite normal or natural behavior among groups of men that are
confined together for days, weeks or months at a time, whether during Merchant Marine, Navy or
Coast Guard service or while confined to a jail or prison.
A post World War II comprehensive survey conducted by Alfred
Kinsey indicated that approximately 59% of adult men surveyed admitted
to engaging in at least one homosexual relationship. Of that percentage, 39%
considered themselves to be bisexual, and 4 percent claimed to be exclusively
homosexual .
A 1978 survey conducted by Playboy magazine indicated that
approximately 51% of adult men admitted to at least occasionally engaging in
sex with other men.
If the truth were known, the percentage would probably be closer
to 99%. However, since the well-publicized AIDS outbreak, beginning in about
1980, and the appearance of new and incurable strains of gonorrhea and other
viral infections, including herpes, LOGIC would have it that no man in his
right mind is likely to willfully engage in any kind of promiscuous sex
involving the exchange of body fluids with either males or females. It is
simply not sane behavior.
However, the use of terminology such as straight and/or gay
by professionals and even by lay people as a way of defining an individual’s
sexual identity is not only absurd, but it is highly dehumanizing and a
contributory factor in mental illness, alcohol/drug dependency and violence. It
bears repeating: there most probably exists an underlying homoerotic dimension
to every male.
Since
the actual logic that an individual discovers through independent observations
is typically refuted by The Ruling Class as illogical, if the individual
challenges that fact the individual is commonly labeled mentally ill, psychotic
or insane. Because The Ruling Class is validated through an illogical belief
system, those who refute the illogical concepts that support the social
infrastructure of society are considered by those with economic and political
power – The Establishment or Ruling Class – to be a threat to the social
structure.
The psychiatrist’s
function is to convince the psychiatric client that his/her own logical
observations are not logical at all, but illogical, and by prescribing
neuroleptics the psychiatrist may actually succeed in so rewiring the neural
networking of the client’s brain that the client can no longer actually think
logically, and therefore will passively accept the illogical frame-of-reference
that society demands he accept in order for The Ruling Class to be able to
control and manipulate him.
Although
the prescribed neuroleptics indeed damage the neural networking of the brain,
occasionally resulting in behavior that The Ruling Class classifies as
criminal, if it can be established that the client had discontinued taking the
prescribed neuroleptic drug prior to the alleged criminal act, such behavior is
typically attributed to the fact that the client discontinued taking the
neuroleptic.
In
fact, it takes weeks or months for the brain’s neurons to reconfigure
themselves after the neuroleptic has been discontinued. In some instances,
according to leading scientists, the brain damage caused by the neuroleptic may
be permanent.
The old adage that a truly insane person believes he is actually
sane is what gives the psychiatrist ultimate control.
Because
the typical psychiatric client has been conditioned (coerced) into accepting
himself/herself as “mentally ill” in order to enable The Ruling Class and
his/her parents, surrogate parents and peers to sustain their own illusions,
the client thus typically and passively accepts the role of “patient,”
eventually telling the psychiatrist exactly what the psychiatrist wants to
hear, including that he/she is experiencing delusions or hallucinations,
thereby permitting the psychiatrist to exploit him/her. The neuroleptics and
other psychotropic medicines, of course, produce the passive behavior, the
delusions and the occasional mood swings. What the psychiatric patient is most
probably experiencing, according to medical journalist Robert Whitaker, is
NIDS, neuroleptic-induced deficit syndrome, a psychotic condition created by
the psychiatric drugs.
Because
the typical psychiatric client has not learned or developed adequate survival
skills – defense mechanisms – for defending himself/herself against the
irrational behavior of others, the client is tragically manipulated by
egocentric psychiatrists, social workers and psychiatric aids. Thus, the mental
illness syndrome becomes a Catch-22 situation for the individual so entrapped.
Recommended
further reading:
Are You There Alone? The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea
Yates by Suzanne O’Malley
Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental
Health by Eliot Valenstein, Ph.D.
Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society’s Unwanted
by Thomas Szasz, M.D. ****
The Die Song: A
Journey into the Mind of a Mass Murderer by Donald T. Lunde and Jefferson
Morgan
How to Become a Schizophrenic: The Case Against
Biological Psychiatry by John Modrow
How to Create a
Schizohrenic by Tom Shepherd
Shepherd Center for San Living
Interpretation of
Schizohrenia by Silvano Arieti, M. D. (winner of the National Book Award for
Science)
The Killers Next
Door by Joel Norris, Ph.D.
Mad in America:
Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by
Robert Whitaker ****
The Myth of
Psychotherapy by Thomas Szasz, M.D.
The Politics of
Experience by R. D. Laing, M.D. ****
Toxic Psychiatry
by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
Understanding and
Helping the schizophrenic: A Guide for Family and Friendsby Silvano Arieti, M.
D.
The
Shepherd Center for Sane Living