Australia’s voting: Senate candidate or party to STOP PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE? anyone?

Or how about a

Human dignity party

With these policies:

·         Stop using the term, ‘mental illness’ and other derogatory psychiatrisms http://www.mindfreedom.org/mfi-faq/go/now

·         Stop forced-drugging

·         Stop forced electro-shock

·         Cease coercive-control measures

·         Mandatory informing of harmful effects of psych drugs, withdrawal effects of drugs. Psychiatrists who do not inform their patients should be legally liable.

·         Allow for people grieving, particularly those involved in bushfires. Don’t give them a psychiatric label as if there is something wrong with them! Get person-centred empathetic counselling to help people move through their trauma. Give them some help through Centrelink until they're rehabilitated. Don't necessitate that they agree that they have a 'mental illness'. Grief and trauma are not illness, but they do play havoc with people's lives. The more support a person gets the better, quicker they are able to be enabled.

·         Fund businesses to set up retreats for people to overcome emotional crisis. (Some people who suffer crisis actually do have money, but there aren't enough such retreats available even for money to buy, at present, in this country.)

·         Allow those suffering to speak publically about their experiences so that those suffering similarly can feel that they are being heard. Don’t shut down what is hard to listen to. Allow psychiatric survivors to gain the public's ear and be witnessed and validated.

·         Government needs to cease psychiatric abuse immediately. Dismantle the systems that perpetuated the abuse for decades and apologise.

·         Voices and other percipience needs to be understood better by the public, so there isn’t fear/ stigma in relating to unusual, strange symbolism.

·         Access to career development/ therapy for those who don’t fit into conventional job roles easily, who may also be isolated/ alienated from the community. Allowing for intelligent invention. (Many people with diagnosis are actually educated and talented, just need to work through their inventions with others so they can be grounded in what society needs, so these innovations can come to fruition.)

·         Cease funding psychiatry, but fund those who need to withdraw/ stay on psych drugs because that’s what they’re used to and can’t afford the stress of not having what they’re used to.

• Set up Open Dialogue, that has proven results in other countries, as well as Voice Dialoguing, also proven to work in helping a person recover from crisis. (This will be far less expensive than hospitalisation and psychiatric services, pharmaceuticals etc in the long run.)

 

(Something like that. The Human Dignity Party should be open to anyone who wishes to add, or comment on that list. The Human Dignity Party should listen and support diversity, social-justice, difference and much needed change.)

 

But there is no Human Dignity Party in Australia as far as I know... So who do I vote for on my birthday?

Labor? bugger them… they use the term ‘mentally ill’

 ‘Mental Health

In May 2011, Labor announced a $2.2 billion mental health package to be rolled out over five years. It includes: more and better coordinated services for the severely mentally ill, expanded community mental health programs, more funding for psychological services, e-mental health, expanded youth-focused programs and a Mental Health Commission to produce an annual Mental Health Report Card. The Coalition says the package borrowed heavily from its 2010 election promises. Health spokesman Peter Dutton told the ABC in June that the Coalition would be "reassessing" mental health policy, and would make announcements closer to the election.’

http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/policy/health-and-hospitals/

The Greens? (usually get my vote,  but…)

The Greens say, aren’t we good we’ll get psychiatric treatment for refugees.

Is the Greens party completely ignorant of what peak psychiatric bodies and their psychiatrists do for a living? Are they completely ignorant of how torturous forced drugging with neuroleptics is? Does the Greens party not know these psych drugs and electro-shock cause brain-damage? How horrible! How stupid! Do that not know how many angry people will now not vote for them because of their cruel policy medicalising trauma? Do they never hear angry psychiatric survivors speak? Are they that ignorant of the human-rights needs in this country? Human rights that don’t take money, but just need ugly rich psychiatrists no longer allowed to experiment on people with torturous chemicals. Yes, experiment, all patients of psychiatrists in hospitals, have the information about them, go into charts and stats, without their knowledge, against their will.

‘REFUGEE HEALTH AND WELLBEING

The old parties are risking the health and wellbeing of thousands of refugees, including children, by dumping them in appalling conditions in Nauru and Papua New Guinea. A caring nation looks after people fleeing persecution and their physical and mental health.

In the rush to set up cruel detention camps and slum cities, there is no plan for independent oversight of refugees’ health and care. The old parties are committed to dumping all refugees who come by boat out-of-sight, out-of-mind in the poorest nations in our region, with no safeguards for their medical and mental health needs.

Reports from whistle-blowers and the UNHCR already tell us that conditions in the camps are harsh and dangerously inadequate, but there is no transparency about what is happening in Australia’s name.’

http://www.greens.org.au/protecting-refugee-health

Greens… um, this means you will be subjecting refugees to forced drugging. That’s what RANZCP, Australia’s peak psychiatric body does. You do know that don’t you? Why would you subject traumatised people to the torture of neuroleptics and other psychiatric drugs?

I am a psychiatric survivor. I know this is not okay.

 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (An editor’s nightmare, too many exclamation marks.)

 

I’m searching, searching, searching for a Senate Candidate that wants to stop psychiatric abuse. Who the hell am I going to vote for? The UN has declared forced psychiatric drugging and electro-shock as torture. Even Israel has stopped forced electro-shock. Australia continues, oblivious, ignorant… calling it ‘care’.

                Australia is so dumbed down, it can’t hear our voices. Pathetic. I’m ashamed of this country.

                I really have no one to vote for.

Or so I thought...
Just putting an after-thought in this blog, because I have found,The Socialist Alliance says it, 'will guarantee patients' control by legislating the right of access to all information required for informed consent; the right to appoint a legal guardian of a patient's choice; the right to choose or refuse medical treatment; the right to choose contraception appropriate to the patient and abortion as required. Hospitals to be forced to admit their surgical, pharmacological and other nosocomial mistakes as a matter of due process.’

But none for the Socialist Alliance are standing in the House of Representatives in my area. And none for Senate in my state. Boo. I still have no one to vote for.