Australia has signed & agreed to ratification of the Convention Against Torture

Text for question to Q&A ABC program panel on video:
'George Brandis, congratulations on finally ratifying the CAT. How long will it take to come into effect? Australia signed and ratified the UN CRPD in 2008, which strictly forbids forced medical treatments, and Research Without Consent, yet millions of Australians are subjected to forced psychiatry every year. People who say no and mean it enough to take action by going to a tribunal hearing, often without legal representation, because innocent people aren’t entitled to a lawyer. 9 years is a long time to take before enacting section 51, especially when people are being tortured in the guise of medicine, under EFIC research. How much longer? Are you frustrating the convention?'

Not exactly ratified yet... but a promise

Australia hasn't yet ratified UN OPCAT, but has declared that ratification will occur at the end of 2017.

The Federal Government has announced it will ratify an international treaty to improve the oversight of Australia's prisons and detention centres. Attorney-General George Brandis said the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) would be ratified by the end of this year.
From:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-09/australia-pledges-to-ratify-opcat-torture-treaty/8255782

What does that mean for people on a Compulsory Treatment Order, being threatened with arbitrary detention if they don't turn up to appointments, told pull their pants down to be injected or have someone else do that, and told to comply with blood tests to verify they are taking the poisons the psychiatrists require in order to do invasive Human Research Without Consent?

Do quarter of Australia's civilian population subjected to Forced and Coerced (under duress) invasive cruel inhuman psychiatric treatments, that qualify as 24/7 indefinite torture & arbitrary detention, count as being allowed FREEDOM FROM TORTURE? They haven't for 209 years that the state violence inflicted under the psychiatric regime has been in place. Innocent people in this country don't have the right to legal representation, and if they're lucky enough to get legal representation, Medicos are considered beyond reproach; even though psychiatrists are known to harm children, even paedophile children, certainly they forcefully drug them, electrocute them, tie them up...  as well as harm the elderly, harm people in their prime. No one deserves this. It doesn't matter what kind of victim-blaming, or dehumanising excuse that is come up with through whitecoat propaganda, no one deserves to be tortured like this.

There has to be more awareness of psychiatry's abuse of human lives. It is wide-scale systematic state violence that causes a slow poisoning to death in the person inflicted by psychiatry's cocktails of forced drugs.

What would you rather? Be chained, or poisoned, or electrocuted? Know that psychiatry uses mechanical holds, in 4-point, not chains but Velcro, that said it's the same effect. Garth Daniel was held in this position for over 69 days in Victoria by psychiatrists. He was also being poisoned and electrocuted and his suffering belittled. Why? Because he said no, and meant it, and had parents who fought for him way better than most can. His parents understood South African Aparthied Regime, and survived it. Which makes this all worse, because you'd think if you at least had people petitioning to stop State Violence being inflicted on you, the psychiatrists would back off or start to be reasonable. But, psychiatrists are not reasonable, if you think they are, you obviously really don't read or listen to anything the people who are abused by psychiatry say, or their allies, or experts who cannot be bought or easily threatened into silence by the scam industry that is psychiatry.

Human Rights Commissioner Ed Santow said it was a good day for human rights in Australia. "When a person is detained in prison, a mental health facility, anywhere, they remain human," he said.
From:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-09/australia-pledges-to-ratify-opcat-torture-treaty/8255782

Yes, that's what people subjected to forced psychiatry say most, they just want to be treated like human-beings, not tortured, not belittled, not forcefully used in Emergency Research. But that's not what is happening.

If we cannot stop torture

in our own country,

where can we stop it?

Australia you need to be outraged!

Australian government policy on Conventions (brief)

Australia does not generally agree to be bound by a human rights treaty unless it is satisfied that its domestic laws comply with the terms of the treaty. Australia has agreed to be bound by the ICCPR and the ICESCR as well as other major human rights instruments, including:

• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

• Convention on the Political Rights of Women

• International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination

• Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women

• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment

• Convention on the Rights of the Child

• Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

• Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons

• Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

• Slavery Convention of 1926

• Supplementary Convention on Slavery

• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

From:

http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human-rights-explained-fact-sheet-7australia-and-human-rights-treaties

9th February 2017 at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s annual NGO Forum, the Foreign Minister and Attorney-General announced that Australia would ratify the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT).

From:
https://castancentre.com/2017/02/10/ratification-of-the-opcat-what-will-it-mean-for-australia/

Dehumanisation, psychiatry & excuses for lechers

Of course Trump isn’t crazy/ mentally-illed, the little girls he lechered are. All through the USA campaign, there has been this theme of calling out the politicians with the only terms that won’t get them in legal hot-water, the only industry that is still funded by governments world-wide to enslave innocent citizens, into the worst kind of work possible, the work no-one wants to do, the work no one should ever be asked to do, let alone used for against their will: being enslaved as a medical laboratory specimen.

All too often perpetrators of horrible crimes against women and girls, are in top government jobs, validating the horrible abuses perpetrated. Those women and girls traumatised and re-traumatised by those who continue to make violation a pathway to power.

I find it horrible that anyone plays into the psychiatric regime and uses psychiatrisms, I find it horrible that anyone defends misogyny, verbal and physical abuse. I find it horrible when people vilify a person because of the way they look or where they come from has been subjected to genocide and slavery. I find it horrible that it is these articles that get published in newspapers, the ones that perpetuate the wrongs. And I find it horrible that there is no widespread outrage being allowed to surface in newspapers for the quarter of the population that is tortured and enslaved by psychiatry, used as human laboratory specimens for filthy money making scams, then vilified by the public use of these terms of abuse, as if psychiatrisms are a simple name call with no consequence for the marginalised and oppressed who get hauled in by white-coat perpetrators.

‘Sometimes people have different opinions, sometimes people behave in ways that others might not think are "right", but that doesn’t make them any less human…’ writes Weinberg, then goes on to say, ‘When we dehumanise others, we deny them attributes that we typically associate with being human – the capacity to think rationally, to have emotions, to reason, to be intelligent. It’s just easier to say, “they’re so not like me, they’re not even human”.'

                Weinberg is a psychologist, researching hedonism. She’s just reiterated the dehumanisation of all the people who are coerced under duress and forced to agree to psychiatric labels, yet she defends the misogynist lecher as not having attributes to be diagnosed by psychiatry, ‘Donald Trump is not crazy. He is not a madman, nor a psychopath. He is a very clever businessman and he has contested and won the US presidency. He beat one of America’s most successful political families for the top job. He actually beat the politicians at politics.

‘And he has appealed to more than 60 million Americans who were motivated to vote for him. Are they all crazy too? Or do they have a different opinion about what will better suit their needs at this point in time?

‘It’s easy to decide that people who have different opinions to your own must be crazy. It’s much harder to understand them.’ http://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/tv/2016/11/16/waleed-aly-trump-crazy/?utm_source=Responsys&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20161117_TND

Um… #RUOkay? If not psychiatrists, psychologists, psychnurses & social workers will #dehumanise you. So many #DoubleStandards in #ForcedPsychiatry.

Of course Trump isn’t crazy, the little girls he lechered are, is that typical victim-blame mentality. It is much easier for Weinberg to 'understand' Trump, because there's money in it for her. Not as though we're in the middle of a Great Depression like the people of her Grandfather's time, but none-the-less, let her Grandfather roll in his grave and whisper, 'Hitler was a businessman too, with many people motivated to vote for him and whitecoats like you my granddaughter backing him.'

I don't forgive the Australian psychologists & psychiatrists & nurses & social workers & politicians who inflict 24/7 indefinite torture and arbitrary detention on Australian citizens, in the name of the 'care' and ‘health’. I don't forgive the population who mindlessly follow the propaganda of the psychiatric regime either, though they are not directly responsible. If you are in this industry of abuse, you need to speak out against it to clear your name, in the hope that you might be forgiven for your past collusion with psychiatric assaults. I will be very happy when psychiatry is abolished. To have this perpetuating corporate entity hanging around for 208 years doing diabolical experiments on human lives in our governments name is hurtful to psychsurvivors. And until Weinberg says something in defence of little girls who get lechered by men like Trump, then mentally-illed by the psychiatric regime and forced to endure 24/7 indefinite torture, arbitrary detention and a quality of life that has them turned into a invalidated invalid (poisoned by the 'medicine' that is said to be the 'cure'), I don’t forgive her.

That said, I am the happiest person in the world, because I know what love is and I know what reality is. I know the difference between acting on behalf of another for pay, being brainwashed by propaganda, and being an authentic human-being. And, I am happy because I am free from being enslaved by the psychiatric regime, that nearly killed me. There is no possibility of being happy while being tortured by psychiatrists and told your oppressors are right and you are wrong, when you attempt to demand justice you get dismissed as 'delusional' and when perpetrators are allowed free, while you are abused by the tax-payer funded psychiatric regime.

Please put psychiatry where it should've been put a long, long time ago:

Regime Survivor votes

HERE
Initially NO says: 'Bill Shorten – As the opposition leader at the moment you need to get 25% more votes. Guess what, psychiatric regime survivors make up 25%; we are the Civil Rights Movement of the millennium! We want you to say that forced psychiatric treatments will not continue. We want you to say you will demedicalise and implement the UN CRPD. So that people who identify as having a disability get the support they need, rather than psychiatric abuse. And people who are victims of crime are not being put through the psychiatric system and used as human laboratory animals. You’ve got to say something Bill Shorten, you’ve got to do something, otherwise we won’t know to vote for you.'

We need to know that psychiatric slavery & torture will be stopped.

More about psychiatric slavery HERE

Shorten cannot win unless he addresses this State Violence, the systematic abuses of psychiatry the tax-payer forks out for thinking it's 'care'. Shorten must say he will abolish psychiatry's slavery of Australian citizens. Psychiatry is slavery and Australia has strong antislavery legislation. So why have not the Feds investigated psychiatric slavery yet? http://www.glennfloyd.org/blood.pdf  Because the States & federal government  fund this kind of disgusting slavery of its citizens, and our law firms lack training in human rights law. The Civil Rights Movement is outspoken about psychiatry's abuse of quarter of the world's population, enslaving them in diabolical experiments for over 200 years. The people of Australia must stop it, if politicians like Shorten prefer to get into the pockets of whitecoats... and live to regret it. Say something Shorten, or regret forever that you didn't think enough about the people, the people that matter.

Glenn Floyd has also asked Bill Shorten some questions on QandA ABC.

Well said Glenn Floyd, you have my vote. We need intelligent people in Parliament, who stand up for the rights of those people who have been cruelly victim-blamed by 200 year-old propaganda the public should've been able to see-through sooner than 2016. You are a courageous ally to regime survivors.

I expect everyone to be antislavery, as slavery is against the law. The Feds just have to be pushed to realise the need to investigate. And Labour needs to fulfil its promises of implementing the UN CRPD into Australian law. (CRPD law isn't just about psychiatric abuse & other forms of medical abuse. CRPD law is also about making sure that elderly people can get their pushers and wheelchairs into toilets and venues at least have a portable ramp. I met a beautiful brilliant 90 something year-old who can no longer visit most venues to watch friends perform, because she has to use a pusher to walk and venues have no ramps or toilet access for even pushers. Not okay.) CRPD law was agreed & ratified fully in 2013. 3 years have gone by and the implementations have not been happening. I want Shorten to call out the caretaker Govt on this, as he does with other issues.

Children should not be subjected to electric shock and forced drugging. I know many, many adults subjected to psychiatric abuse from a young age - it's so hard for them to get free. Psychiatric abuse that the state endorses, horrific, though there's also the paedophilia rife in the psychiatric profession, that's been covered-up by things like Greek Myths since the time of Freud's fraud.

These children subjected to forced psychiatry, now adults, are not in successful jobs, even though they're intelligent, creative individuals despite being subjected to psychiatry. Why? Because they were and still are being subjected to State Violence.

Psychiatry's belittling of human experience into terms like 'psychosis' is outrageous and dates back to the times medical practitioners were entrenched in phrenology. Visions and voices are diagnosed as 'serious mental illness'... and why? witches, 1st Nations People, they are people who use visions & voices as ways of communicating. It's a very human experience to think in terms of 'other' and collective, nature, earth, rather than a constant monologue of self - playwrights do it, comedians do it. Stop allowing whitecoats to kill all the funny, creative, authentic out spoken people, stop wrecking the lives of young children. Stop oppressing the expression of people that were subjected to genocide.

Does anyone think it really helps to be tied to a laboratory, where McGorry types dictate how a child should live their life, forcing poisons and horrible labels on them, then get awards for it. No more awards for chemical lobotomists! Psychiatrists are the stigma. No one wants to be their slave. And when psychiatrists regularly won't listen to parents, take guardianship of children, or threaten it, then that child is even more likely to be drugged up, verbally abused by psychiatry and subjected to paedophilia. This has got to stop. Some politician has to recognise that the power given to psychiatrists to rule so many innocent people's lives, is just so wrong. Discuss this disgusting!

The reason why we have such a high suicide rate is because, when a person is enslaved as a human laboratory animal, by psychiatrists, tortured 24/7 the rest of their life, they'll find any means to escape that. Most opt for suicide, rather than self-defence, because police & nurses and a society that victim-blames are a formidable force. Garth Daniels, the public figure, who was going to be electric-shocked indefinitely (after already suffering 96 electric shocks & General Anaesthetic procedures), he was lucky enough to have a family who knew what slavery is all about, because they lived through apartheid in South Africa, as an oppressed people. So, he was able to skip state. Not everyone has that support. And what's with Victoria, that you have to skip state to stop being tortured by psychiatrists? It's ridiculous. End the psychiatric regime. Take that $13 billion given to psychiatrists to torture people, and fund social support for people who are suffering crisis. Be humane. And please, no more awards for chemical lobotomisers like McGorry. http://speakoutagainstpsychiatry.org/how-to-escape-from-a-psychiatric-hospital/

Some unfortunate people, who fight back against being forcefully drugged in public hospitals, get put in Thomas Embling, even though they haven't been charged with a crime, but are considered 'violent' because they defended themselves. Then they get beaten up by the actual criminals. Psychiatrists don't want to charge people who act in self-defense, in case those people & 6 million Australians being harmed by psychiatry actually have an opening to speak on mainstream media, they just want to use the prison psych units as threats to keep people blackmailed into agreeing to psychiatrist's whims, lest the punishment gets worse. And, it always can. Garth Daniels was strapped to a bed for 69 days for refusing Closapine. Then they started electric shocking him every second day. They really wanted to break that fella. But he's doing well now, with his family, happy and with a nice social-psychiatrist, who doesn't torture people, rather talks to people. But the whole Daniels family had to leave the state of Victoria to free Garth and support him in recovery from 20 years of State Violence inflicted on him via the State endorsed psychiatric industry.

People who are forced to take treatments are enslaved. If a person takes treatments of their own free-will, they are not. People become distressed when they are enslaved, just as animals do. People will escape in any way they feel they can.

There are the coercion tactics of psychiatrists use (threats to make people involuntary patients and force treatments) so the person complies with treatment. Realise that psychiatric drugs and force treatment is horrific and it is 24/7 indefinitely. Educate yourself so you don't spout those horrible prejudiced psychiatrisms. This is the Civil Rights Movement of the millennium and we're ending this horrorshop regime that is psychiatry in 2016. It has been going on over 200 years too long.  http://notachemicalimbalance.blogspot.com.au/

We Shall Never Stop

When can you say no to medical treatment?

Supreme Violation of Natural Justice

Australian politicians who want to stop psychiatric abuse

I have narrowed this search down to my electorate, Melbourne Ports, this includes all the Senate candidates for Victoria, but only the House of Reps for Melbourne Ports, for the Sept 2013 election.

If anyone from other areas wants to collaborate or comment on their area, with candidates who are going to do something about stopping forced-drugging, electro-shock and other psychiatric abuse, I would be most interested.

That said, I am aware that the Socialist Alliance has this written on their website, ‘The Socialist Alliance 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.’

            This sounds promising, but they are not running in either Senate for Victoria, or House of Reps in Melbourne Ports. They are, however, running in other electorates.

 

These are the replies I got for my electorate in regards to stopping psychiatric abuse:

'Hi Initially,

Thanks and this was brought to my attention prior to last (2010) election. We are most definitely against such forced treatments. I seem to recall we put out a media release against it at the time. My own Solicitor had been involved in legal cases, representing those forced to undergo such treatment against their will.

Please do your best to spread the word and get our vote up.

It will be simple for voting the Liberal Democrats into the Senate for NSW; we drew number 1 on the ballot paper!

Thanks,'

Peter Whelan

National President

Liberal Democratic Party

www.ldp.org.au

twitter@auslibdems

***

'Dear Sir,

As a fellow sufferer of occasional but debilitating bouts of depression, I am fully supportive of your strong desire to end abuse.

The resurgent Australian Democrats and I will do whatever it takes to end this old-fashioned method of playing with people's human rights and then promote successful, modern Scandinavian techniques.

My name is Richard Grummet and I am 1 of 6 candidates on the ballot paper for the Australian Democrats in Victoria.

In the spirit of our founder Don Chipp, we intend to "Keep the Bastards Honest" - particularly on this crucial human rights issue - if elected.

But we need your help to get back into the Senate somewhere in Australia in 10 days time.

With only 2% of the vote and the right preference flows we will do it - but we need the no.1 above the line vote of you and your friends on the Senate ballot paper Australia - wide.

Please let me know ASAP - if we can do more.

Yours Sincerely,'

Richard Grummet.

Australian Democrats


(Also in The Democrats' health policy they list the right to choose or refuse medical care and

'consumer involvement in the development and provision of health care services, policies and programs'

***

'Hi Initially NO,

I am coming to this Senate election from running my own small business and hope to contribute in a practical way. My background and starting interests are on the website at www.bobnicholls.com.au

I am not aware of the problems that you raise but could look into it at  a later time, if for no other reason than people being afforded dignity and respect.

I do have as one of my goals (see website) to look into mental health as a root cause of many of our society’s ills. This is all I can offer to you at this stage.

If you feel strongly on this, please keep pushing everyone. We should all have passion for something.

 

Regards,'

 

Bob Nicholls

Independent

 

***

'Dear Initially No,

The WLP is a party of transparency, accountability and justice.  We are against unnecessary interference with the liberty of the subject. This would include unwarranted intrusions into peoples' health on spurious scientific grounds.  While we do not have a specific platform on forced drugging and electro-shock, rest assured that the senators, once elected, will ensure that whole sectors of society, including psychiatric practice, will come up for scrutiny and exposure, as it arises.

 

Kind regards,'

Binoy

Wikileaks Party

 

 

***

 

‘Hi Initially,

Senator Online believe as I do that the community has a right to have their voice heard in the Senate. For too long we have heard  Politicians from both sides of the divide, tell us what they think is best for the Community. A vote for SOL will give the voice to the people. Should the majority of the community agree with any particular issue, then they will be supported by SOL.

We are not a traditional political organisation with policies that are influenced by party politics, or by vocal minorities, or subject to doing "deals". We are about putting the voice of the majority above special interest groups. We will be the voice of the silent majority!!

The Party is proactive.

• SOL will promote and submit Bills to Parliament as they are supported by a clear majority of the public. 

• You will be able to cast a vote and influence Bills in Parliament directly through the Senator Online Website or App.

• SOL will provide balanced information and the pros and cons on each Bill. You will have clear awareness of what is going on in Parliament, enabling you to engage and act.

• In the future, you will be able to collaboratively create and vote on Bills with other members of the public through a "wiki".

SOL MPs and Senators will submit Bills that are supported by the clear majority of their constituency.

• We stand for giving the public a clear voice on each and every Bill and important issue, putting "democratic" back in democracy and making the deliberations universally accessible. We believe in providing people with the opportunity to have their voice heard on every Bill and issue that is being debated in Parliament.

• Equally importantly, we stand for the power of informed debate. By using the unmatched "enabler" of information — the internet — we seek to prompt informed debate on the issues that are important to the majority of Australians.

Our policies will be determined by the clear majority view of Australians. In the future, you will be able to collaboratively develop and vote on Bills with other members of the public through a "wiki".

SOL is best described as a directional party, that will aid our government.

 

Please go to our website www.senatoronline.org.au, and see how this will work’

 

Regards,

Lloyd Taylor

Senator Online Candidate - Victoria

***

Initially,

'Our overall policy (http://greens.org.au/equality-everyone) states as follows:

 PROTECTING THE VULNERABLE

Whether in prison, immigration detention or psychiatric facilities, people held in detention are particularly powerless and vulnerable.  The Greens believe that all detainees have a right to be treated humanely and with dignity.

The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) is an international agreement designed to protect people in detention from cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. It ensures that these facilities can be independently monitored and inspected. We will commit $15 million over the next four years to ratify the convention and protect the vulnerable in detention.

With regard to more specifics regarding psychiatric forced treatment . I will forward your email onto our relevant Senator, Penny Wright  who is our mental health spokesperson

Regards,'

Janet Rice

Victorian Greens Lead Senate Candidate 

***

‘Hi Initially

 

Thanks for your email.

As you probably know, Greens Senator Richard Di Natale is a medical doctor and has been responsible for many important initiatives - re preventative health, problem gambling, junk food.

I am not aware of any specific actions re abuse, but in general the Greens work and policies on mental health issues is very strong and supportive, standing up for more funding and some important specific initiatives.

Apart from the refugees health initiative that you mentioned, we have also recently called for better rural mental health funding, see http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-21/greens-mental-health-policy/4901766.

extending the mental Health Nurse Incentive program, and additional services for care in the community too.  Here are links to our platform http://www.greens.org.au/platform and our health policy, it http://greens.org.au/policies/health.

We are so pressed for time, I hope that gives you an idea of the party values and aims, even if I have not addressed your specific concerns.

Take care and Best wishes’

Ann Birrell

Greens candidate for Melbourne Ports

I am surprised with this miniscule result in return replies.

Those against psychiatric torture regimes comprise of at least 5% of the vote. This could be a major win for a party or independant. Those who are ignorant and could be made aware of this major abuse of human-rights, comprise of more than 20% of the vote.

Psychiatric survivors, activists, compassionate individuals, those diagnosed and incarcerated in hospitals for no crime… our voice needs to be heard, recognised, validated and the horror of psychiatric abuse needs to stop. We have the United Nations backing us. Why do Australian political parties that have policies regarding human-rights claim such ignorance of what happens on their doorstep? of what can happen to anyone who goes through trauma, crisis who doesn’t get enough support and validation for their suffering?

Do politicians not know how cruel toxic drugs such as neuroleptics are, that shut down neurotransmitters so a youthful person feels like they have Alzheimer’s, so they twitch uncontrollably, sleep most of the day? Can’t they imagine how horrible it is to lose your memory during the 40 or so bouts of ECT that a psychiatrist recommends and forces on individuals without their consent?

Psychiatric abuse needs to stop. I want parties who will back us, who advertise this policy to stop psychiatric abuse properly. I want politicians who are loud and clear that they will stop force-drugging, electro-shock and other invasive procedures. It will be a major win for whoever does this. Whoever goes into hospitals and lets those being tortured by psychiatrists know that they should vote, because their party is going to stop the horror of psychiatric abuse.

I am surprised so many Australians still believe that biological psychiatry, is the social-psychiatry of Hollywood movies. No, psychiatrists rarely talk or listen to patients, they mandate, brainwash and forcefully drug and electrocute. They forcefully inject and electrocute  those grieving the loss of their loved-ones, with major tranquilisers, that cause brain-damage and other disabling. It is not okay to do this to asylum seekers, Greens, hint, hint... I want clarity on that, that you will not send psychiatrists to forcefully drug refugees, like you have promised to do. They are people who have obviously been through trauma and adversity, they are detained and suffering, they are in crisis, they need to talk with people would are empathetic, who listen and enable them to have courage to live, who are trustworthy professionals that will help anchor their crisis in some sort of consensual reality, that allows for diversity. People that will give them hope and ways to cope, so they don't despair and wonder what reality actually is. They are people who really don't need their minds policed by psychiatrists, who will forcefully torture them with drugs and electro-shock, then demand that they agree that they are 'mentally ill' and need to take the 'recommended dose of meds' that is harming them unendurably. That's what psychiatrists do, they don't listen, they experiment and police diversity, unless they specifically state that they are social-psychiatry, that they do psychoanalysis and only prescribe drugs when a patient really wants that. Understand that pollies!

Attorney-General's Department: Stop psychiatric abuse and gain an apology for it ever having occurred

Government farting of psychiatrisms!

Now, just a word about government initiatives in mental health. They are so out of date and offensive they are silly!

                Psychiatrisms being farted out all over the place and little scared psychiatrist’s parrots saying what they should, lest they be reminded of that time they maxed out their credit card and drove across several states without stopping. Or, even that time they started accusing people of poisoning their food, when they hadn’t heard that it was actually Monsanto doing it, not their sweet innocent cousins.

                There are a number of videos on this page that upset me (with the exception of Christopher who actually talks about the trauma and his recovery that happened through conversation and support.)

                Why would I listen to Kay Jamison’s view that psychiatric treatment is ‘important’? She is clearly suffering under the medication she takes. I can see the way it dulls her eyes and droops her face!

I haven’t got time to critique each video and say why they’re not positive representations for recovery and reducing stigma. They do nothing for validation, or enabling either. So, I’m going to focus on an actor who should know better, in hope to enlighten her as to why she is upsetting to so many (yes of course she will read my blog, she really wants to know a psychiatric survivor’s view for her next film role…)

 

Dear Glenn Close, saying, ‘drapetomania’ a billion times with actor’s glee, in 1851, would not make the word less offensive. Same with saying a person has a ‘sexual orientation disturbance’ in 1970. I mean, while people ‘joke’ about brides who run away in Hollywood movies, saying a person’s sexual orientation is a ‘disturbance', a 'deviation' or a 'disorder' when there is nothing wrong with their sexual choices, is about a societal disturbance. It is society being prejudiced. The fact is, sweetheart, psychiatry is disturbing and when you repeat words like ‘schizophrenia,’ and ‘mental illness’, they hurt people like me, because they remind me how I’ve been abducted, tortured, threatened, physically restrained and had to put up with the coercive-control brainwashing that goes on, as recently as 2011. And before you jump to conclusions that I was behaving like some Fatal attraction role you played, may I remind you, about the myth that so many people hold close to their heart that people with mental health problems are violent. Yes, it is a myth. And no, I wasn't being violent.

                And the fact is,  ‘The vast majority of people with mental health problems are no more likely to be violent than anyone else. Most people with mental illness are not violent and only 3%-5% of violent acts can be attributed to individuals living with a serious mental illness. In fact, people with severe mental illnesses are over 10 times more likely to be victims of violent crime than the general population. You probably know someone with a mental health problem and don't even realize it, because many people with mental health problems are highly active and productive members of our communities.’

                Okay, you should’ve got that any way, because it’s on the website where you talk of your relatives and ‘their illness’. You seem to have little insight into why your relatives got so upset they went into an emotional discombobulated crisis. But you’re happy to give them labels that no one wants. (Except maybe the Bipolar. That one is new and sounds nice. Manic-depressive, people hated the sound of that. Schizophrenia, roll it on your tongue and it sounds like a cat saying, ‘back off!’ as for ‘mental illness’ being something to get used to, come off it!

                So, just to let you know, these words alarm me as much as racism and sexism, probably more, because they areused to harm, disable, threaten, brainwash, dehumanise and torture, yes, even the UN agrees that forced-drugging is torture. And the public seems oblivious to this.

                How could you be so stupid as not to be aware of this? Don’t you read?

                Stop farting psychiatrisms and get with it! Don't turn coping mechanisms and discombobulated responses to grief and trauma into 'symptoms'! And don't you dare ever use the 's' word where I can hear it again!
 

 

Sincerely,

Initially NO

PS: If you like my poster of psychiatry farting, you can buy it at Redbubble. (Alright I'll send you a postcard I know stars expect everything for free.)