XmarkBridge on Nostr: text (1972): 2018 Psych doctor: "You have been an alcoholic for 20 years and you are ...

text (1972): 2018 Psych doctor: "You have been an alcoholic for 20 years and you are going through a divorce and custody issues and you quit your job? Even though you came in drunk, you are Bipolar."

2019 Psych nurse: "If you don't take your meds, you won't get out of this psych ward."

2020 CYS: "If you don't take your meds, you won't see your child."

2021 Social Worker: "If you don't take your meds I will tell your probation officer. I can make your life easy or a living hell."

2022 Probation Officer: "If you don't take your meds, you won't get out of jail and will remain in jail for another 14 months. You are a danger to yourself and the community. You have to admit you have a disease. It's not your fault. You have a chemical imbalance. This is something you are going have to deal with for the rest of your life."

2023 Psychiatrist: "You aren't Bipolar, you have PTSD!!! You were misdiagnosed!!! Our bad. Psychiatry is more of an art than a science."

Me: "That's ok. I didn't mind spending a total of 15 months in jail, a year and a half on house arrest, paying over $20,000 in fines, court cost, and supervised child visits, losing 6 years of proper child parent bonding, being charged with a DUI from med withdrawal and authorities thinking my meds were opiates losing my driver's license for a year trying to run a business, and numerous other criminal charges from the effects of the meds. I'm just glad I didn't get that lifelong diagnosis strain of mental illness."

Psychiatrist: "Here are some letters that should make up for all that. Just don't make them public to discredit our "life long" diagnose and medicate business model. It might give people hope and question the legitimacy of the current mental health modalities."

Obviously I am paraphrasing, but some are actual quotes. You can hear the whole story in the first 8 minutes of the video in my pinned post.

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