CAT is an ironic acronym

Too often psychiatrists ignore the fundamental axis iv in their diagnosis. Women and children who are in domestic violence, or verbally abusive situations often end up being given an axis i diagnosis, because talking about the person who is abusing, is difficult for a person still in the midst of it. People in abusive situations have been denied their opinion and reality for so long, they don’t think that a judgmental, police-like psychiatrist will understand. So, that person ends up on torturous psychiatric ‘treatment’ regimes that are of no help to their situation, or the trauma occurring, they feel doubly accused of being wrong. Once again the focus is on them, that they need to change, or are so ‘hopeless’ that they don’t have ‘insight’ they ‘can’t give informed consent’ and are ‘delusional’ and ‘sick.’

                Nasty.

                But can torture ever be justified? Should it be part of our arsenal in the ‘war on mental illness’? Should certain forms forms of state torture be sanctioned likeforced-drugging and ECT for those considered to have a ‘mental illness’?

                This debate is much hushed by pharmaceutical companies and psychiatry and those who profit by the existence of these enterprises, who seek public acceptance of their nefarious plans.

                Opinions are being denied.

                The widely held position in relation to torture is that it, and related forms of inhuman behaviour are never acceptable. Never. The Convention Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) finalised in 1984 and since ratified by 141 countries, emphasises this.

                The ‘ticking time bomb’ theory that all deemed mentally ill will commit crimes if not chemically shut down and restrained by chemical means, has the logic of a charlatan clairvoyant.

                Trainee torturers, such as psychiatric nurses and psychiatrists are desensitised to the task by indoctrinated beliefs about their victim’s inhumanity. Is it ever reasonable to ask someone to be trained like this? Can it be good for a society to create and empower people capable of such inhuman conduct? It is a horrific contravention of medical ethics!

                Psychiatric torture regimes must be stamped out. Reality of this torture must be recognised.

                CAT, as well as being an acronym for Convention against Torture… is also ironically the acronym in Australia for a psychiatrist, a psychiatric nurse and ambulance, who also have the power to call the police, even though there may be no threat of crime. This is so called the Crisis Assessment Treatment team. They take a person deemed mentally ill to a psychiatric facility (so called ‘hospital') to be tortured (so called ‘medical treatment’). If the person won’t go willingly in the ambulance, police are called to do the physical task of taking the passive protestor to the torture chambers of the psychiatric ‘hospital.’

                Teams of torturers never do make sense. Stamp them out. We must end the psychiatric regime in 2013!

                If not, when, when are these abusers who torture under the guise of ‘psychiatric care’ going to face justice? When is the public going to let go of their ‘security blanket’ that this torture is for the good of humanity? When are they going to stop thinking that this torture saves them from harm from much vilified ‘mentally ill’ people? When is the public going to stop denying the reality of what is really going on?

The sustained denial of human rights is a cause of high intensity conflict within a person. This often results in anxiety, heavy self-criticism, or disassociation from the memories into ‘personalities’ or ‘voices’ contiguous to the events denied justice, recognition of having occurred, or denied the reality of having harmful effects on the person. This denial, in psychiatric abuse, is despite the product ‘side-effects’ listed openly for the public and doctors to look at, which for psychiatric drugs is long, serious and harmful; this includes not obvious effects as well as obvious physically detectable things like Tardive Dyskinesia, weight gain, mensuration ceasing and memory loss etc.

                Denial of realities is a dangerous thing. It can cause a person to think that the imaginative/ symbolic part of thinking is a possible way to communicate what happened to them. People who do this are called ‘delusional’ and then subjected to an increase in torturous forced-drugging, ECT, judgement, threats, labels, stigma and condemnation by psychiatrists. They come to think that they are ‘faulty’, ‘ill’, ‘phobic’ the more their realities, including the symbolic parallel realities, are denied. This can make a person really depressed and angry.

Psychiatry allows for a horrible denial for human rights retraumatisation loop. Once diagnosed mentally ill by psychiatry, people are then denied their right to have freedom from torture as much as they are denied their right to an opinion.

                Respect for human rights and accommodation of diversity is a primary form of conflict prevention. Want someone to recognise consensual reality more? recognise what their realities are. Do not deny the harm that has been done to them, even if they are speaking in symbols because the trauma has gone on for so long and been denied for so long. And if you have harmed a person and regret it, apologise, even if you are a psychiatrist and think you’re somehow allowed to cause harm to others and they should be expected to put up with it and trust you.
 

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In 2013 we must end the psychiatric regime

When an inhumane law needs to be changed you have to write the truth, rather than softening your life story into fiction. ‘Oversharing’ is necessary when people have literally been shut up and tortured for so long, all the while the public prejudice has continued to be so deeply ingrained by media propaganda.

Most Australian publishing houses still consider a first-hand experience of what psychiatrists term ‘mental illness’ to be a point of view that is unsellable. These publishers prefer the ‘authority’ of a medical practitioner over those with lived experience. And, they really don’t want to hear the truth, they want something that might get a little help from pharmaceutical sponsorship. It’s a horrible feed-back loop that is never ending in its destruction of people’s lives.

I’m sure the public doesn’t want to be inhumane, by allowing the continual torture of people who are in crisis, but they are because they do allow it. Some even condone it as necessary and back their arguments up with pseudo-science. They don’t even think about the many blogs that scream out how painful forced psychiatric treatments are to the person undergoing them. In the minds of people supporting psychiatry, they forget about the person who is made an involuntary patient and reduce them to something without sentience.

Think next time you nod your head and go along with what a psychiatrist is going to do to your unwilling relative, friend, or acquaintance, think about what actually makes sense. Listen if the person you are close to says, ‘I don’t want this.’ Understand why their reasons may be complicated into a parallel world of their psyche, which they may be expressing, more than the language of consensual reality. Don’t agree to the jargon of the psychiatrist more than the symbolic reasoning of the person you know. If you think about it, you should know who you’re with.

Most psychiatrists don’t help or heal, they police, by restraining and maiming. That’s what they’re taught to do. (Not that they’ll want deal with someone who is violent, no, that’s a police matter.) It’s only very odd psychiatrists that don’t order their staff to enforce retraining and maiming, drugging and disabling. Those psychiatrists who don’t, are not very well accepted by the psychiatric community.

The Mental Health Act, a part of Victorian law, backs up psychiatrists in my area. And all over the earth, there are similar government laws to allow psychiatrists to torture people who are having difficulties coping with traumatic events in their life. Why? Because the way these people are coping is outside the range of understood sense. But if, given time, and conversation, instead of drugs and other tortures, there are means through which seeming nonsense becomes obvious, as a symbolic parallel sense to the language of consensual reality.

Society understands that you have to learn gain a new understanding in order to  read writers such as Shakespeare, or learn subject matter such as physics. Even music and other art forms can be ‘acquired tastes’ and need to be understood through realisation and effort. People who have had a revolution inside themselves, need to be afforded the same respect.

So, why is it so difficult to understand that a person needs to be thought of as an individual that cannot fit the template of some other person? Yes, I know, friends think they ‘know’ their friends and when a friend goes into a ‘psychotic episode’ then the other friend freaks out because suddenly they don’t understand. They then accuse that there’s ‘something wrong’. Yes, miscommunication and suppression of traumatic events is what’s wrong.

So, what would be right? Allowing what’s been suppressed to be communicated in whatever medium it takes, that is non-violent. Make sense? I’d like to see health professionals do just that when a person is in crisis, rather than judge, accuse, drug and belittle. And the only way that is going to be the intervention for a crisis situation where a person has lost touch with consensual reality, is for the laws that say, ‘drug them’ and ‘ECT if they’re having a baby or not responsive to drugs’ to be changed.

‘What? She thinks she can change the law?’ I hear people say incredulously.

No, I don’t think I can change the law. I think the law must change, now, not sometime in the dim distant future.

‘What? But people who are mentally ill must be treated or they’ll be the death of us!’ I hear another in the crowd shout.

People must be treated with respect, given help and understanding as well as compassion, when they’ve drifted into a parallel sense. When people haven’t committed crimes, why on earth are they being accused like they have? Does the population think that all people diagnosed by psychiatrists are antisocial and dangerously so? They’re not, if you look at the stats on these things.

There’s more crowds of people that go on and pooh-pooh me, saying forced drugging is the ‘only viable means of combating these psychiatric diseases.’

Diseases? Yeah, psychiatrists are the disease. They attack the stressed, grieving and traumatised and make it almost impossible for these people to recover. They are an ugly blight on our society that needs to be cured. In 2013 we must end the psychiatric regime!

I think the best way of combating the disease of psychiatry is by recognising their treatment regime has no place in government law. I think, then, psychiatry won’t be such an aggressive disease and people can work out for themselves what is and isn’t healthy treatment.

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