It’s wishful thinking
Whether it relates to children, adolescents, adults or the elderly, there has been a constant stream of news stories in recent times referring to mental health.
Any reference however to mental health has been inverted; the pessimistic narratives in the stories often relate to the difficulties experienced by people during these difficult times but they don't focus on mental health – the stories focus on mental illness.
There is an appalling irony that has surrounded the mental health sector for decades.
Over the years, psychiatry has continually called for more public funding, which continues to this day.
While the investment has been forthcoming, psychiatry continues to report how the number of people suffering mental illness is increasing.
For any other sector which reported what are essentially failings, public funding would be stopped or refused until that sector got its house in order and started producing effective, tangible results.
Psychiatrists however blame the patient when things go wrong rather than holding their hands up to what I say are the documented dangers associated with their prescribing habits or their use of electroconvulsive therapy.
It's a given that medical doctors want to do something to help patients achieve recovery with a renewed ability to function in life.
While psychiatrists may have a similar hope, their “treatments”, in my opinion, produce a different story, causing what I consider to be more illness for the patient.
Many people who have turned to psychiatry for help have ended up as life-long patients.
Treatment, whether
voluntary or involuntary, hasn't worked; the concept of a cure for problems labelled as mental illness hasn't happened.
Doctors should be encouraged to help patients as they themselves would like to be helped, assisting them with real solutions and real medicine instead of referring them to psychiatry where cures are just wishful thinking.
Commission on Human Rights (United Kingdom).
“The number of people suffering mental illness is
increasing.”
Brian Daniels, National Spokesperson. Citizens