Also see Diet culture tactics & techniques @ my other site, Chunkealthy. Diet Culture and sane culture both use the same tactics.
Anon Mess Age is a great upcoming band who is trying to expose the b.s ads we are exposed to on a daily basis & the how we use the internet to make us dumber instead of smarter.
- Macklmore - Drug Dealer @ Youtube // @ Genius
- Are Your Medications Safe? @ Slate
INSIDE THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY -- Deceptive Marketing Schemes
Study 329
- Study 329 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Study 329 was a clinical trial conducted in North America from 1994 to 1998 to study the efficacy of paroxetine, an SSRI anti-depressant, in treating depressed teenagers.[1] Marketed as Paxil and Seroxat (among other names), paroxetine had been released in 1991 by the British pharmaceutical company SmithKline Beecham, known since 2000 as GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The drug made $11.6 billion between 1997 and 2006."
- BMJ Restoring Study 329 | Setting the Record Straight
- The Troubled Life of Study 329: Consequences of Failure to Retract | Dr. David Healy
- More on Infamous Paxil Study 329 | World of Psychology
- Healthy Skepticism International News | Paxil Study 329: Paroxetine vs Imipramine vs Placebo in Adolescents
- The Truth About "Study 329" | Psychology Today
Tardive dyskinesia (TD)
- "is a difficult-to-treat and often incurable form of dyskinesia, a disorder resulting in involuntary, repetitive body movements. In this form of dyskinesia, the involuntary movements are tardive, meaning they have a slow or belated onset. This neurological disorder, by definition, most frequently occurs as the result of long-term (usually at least 3 months duration) or high-dose use of antipsychotic drugs,or in children and infants as a side effect from usage of drugs for gastrointestinal disorders" - Wikipedia
- Tardive Dyskinesia uploaded by Terry Barksdale
- @MedScape
- "Tardive dyskinesia is a serious side effect that occurs when you take medications called neuroleptics. Most often, it occurs when you take the medication for many months or years. In some cases, it occurs after you take them for as little as 6 weeks.The drugs that most commonly cause this disorder are older antipsychotic drugs, including:Chlorpromazine.Fluphenazine.Haloperidol.Trifluoperazine
Other drugs, similar to these antipsychotic drugs, that can cause tardive dyskinesia include:Flunarizine.Metoclopramide.Prochlorperazine.Newer antipsychotic drugs seem less likely to cause tardive dyskinesia, but they are not entirely without risk." - Medicine Plus - @WebMD
Psychological danagers
- Suicide Rates Rise While Antidepressant Use Climbs @ Mad In America
- Nearly Every Mass Shooting In The Last 20 Years Shares One Thing In Common, And It Isn’t Weapons - Pharmaceuticals, of course
- Who was Travis the chimpanzee?
- Study: 70% of People on Antidepressants Don’t Have Depression from Inspire Amaze
- Children’s Tylenol maker to plead guilty for knowingly selling tainted drugs from RT
- Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications by Peter R Breggin
- War On Health -- How Pharmaceutical Companies Slaughter Tens of Thousands of Americans Each Year
Pill mill
"Pill Mill" - "A pill mill is an operation in which a doctor, clinic or pharmacy pre- scribes and/or dispenses narcotics without a legitimate medical purpose."
- Big Pharma Big Money : Documentary on the Money and Corruption of Big Pharmaceutical Companies - one of the best documentaries on this subject.
- Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs - YouTube
- The Pfizer Circle of Hell @ Lapham’s Quarterly
- The Pfizer-Allergan merger is a huge tax dodge. Bernie Sanders wants President Obama to block it. @ Vox
- Bernie Sanders Just Declared War on Pfizer for Tax Dodger Scheme
- Drug Dealing Legalized; They're Called Pharmaceutical Companies uploaded by The Young Turks
- Psychiatrist arrested: Georgia ‘Dr. Death’ arrested after 36 of his patients die - "A Georgia psychiatrist was arrested after 36 of his patients died. The psychiatrist, Dr. Narendra Nagareddy, is accused of running a pill mill and overprescribing opiates and benzodiazepine, prescription drugs that are “beyond his purview as a psychiatrist,” stated Clayton County Police Chief Mike Register."
- Study: 70% of People on Antidepressants Don’t Have Depression from Inspire Amaze
- Disturbing (But Amazing) Pictures Expose The Absurdities Of Modern Culture *Warning: Graphic Images*
- **Gwen Olsen Ex-Pharma Drug Rep Tells ALL - playlist from PsycheTruth - scary stuff.
- Dr.Drew on Real Time with Bill Maher - You can't buy sleep (Perscription drugs kills)
- The Big Fix: How The Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers (Publicaffairs Reports) by Katharine Greider
- Bill Maher rant on Big Pharma - Pharmaceutical industry vs nutrition and common sense
- Bill Maher on Big Pharma on David Letterman
- Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Marketing to Doctors (HBO) &OpenPaymentsData
- Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging - Full Movie (Documentary)
- CCHR: The Psycho/Pharmaceutical Industry with Shane Ellison
doesn't have to be approved
- When Crime Pays: J&J’s Drug Risperdal - "Even though Risperdal wasn’t approved for the elderly, J&J formed a sales force, called ElderCare, with 136 people to market it to seniors. The F.D.A. protested and noted that there were “an excess number of deaths” among the elderly who took the drug. J&J seems to have shrugged. It was making vast sums, and the F.D.A. didn’t have teeth.At the same time, J&J was also expanding into another forbidden market: children. The company began peddling the drug to pediatricians, so that by 2000, more than one-fifth of Risperdal was going to children and adolescents.In 2003, the company had a “back to school” marketing campaign for Risperdal, and a manager discussed including “lollipops and small toys” in sample packages, Brill says."
serotonin syndrome
- Silent Death – Serotonin Syndrome Angela A Stanton, PhD - "First Signs of the Impending Doom : The first sign that she had too much serotonin in her brain was that rather than feeling calmer and happier she became more agitated; she was unhappy with people around her, criticized everything, nothing was good enough. Then bowel incontinence started and she had trouble holding her stool until she reached the bathroom; her bowel incontinence further limited where she dared going so she felt angrier. She became very easy to irritate and was pissed at the whole world....To get serotonin without medicines, eat those foods that put you to sleep after lunch: turkey has lots of serotonin. Head out to the sun. Sun releases serotonin. If you live in a cold region where sun is rare in the winter, invest in a home sun-lamp. The light it releases initiates serotonin release in your body. Enjoy a pleasant walk; go shopping; watch children play in a park; go to social gatherings. Anywhere full of happy friends or people in general will supply you with feel-good hormones that will help ease any depression."
- Syntoms of serotonin syndrome @ Silent Death – Serotonin Syndrome Angela A Stanton, PhD - "symptoms of many illnesses or conditions resemble that of the symptoms of serotonin syndrome. The surest way of knowing if you or your loved one has serotonin syndrome, is if serotonin medicines have been taken for a long time and symptoms slowly worsened over time or if new serotonin medicine was just introduced. If three of the following symptoms appear, take the patient to the nearest hospital via ambulance immediately, stand guard and get ready for a fight to save a life! - Agitation or restlessness.Confusion.Rapid heart rate and high blood pressure.Dilated pupils.Loss of muscle coordination or twitching muscles.Muscle rigidity.Heavy sweating.Diarrhea.Headache.Shivering.Goose bumps.High fever.Seizures.Irregular heartbeat.Unconsciousness
Off-label use
- When Crime Pays: J&J’s Drug Risperdal - "Even though Risperdal wasn’t approved for the elderly, J&J formed a sales force, called ElderCare, with 136 people to market it to seniors. The F.D.A. protested and noted that there were “an excess number of deaths” among the elderly who took the drug. J&J seems to have shrugged. It was making vast sums, and the F.D.A. didn’t have teeth.At the same time, J&J was also expanding into another forbidden market: children. The company began peddling the drug to pediatricians, so that by 2000, more than one-fifth of Risperdal was going to children and adolescents.In 2003, the company had a “back to school” marketing campaign for Risperdal, and a manager discussed including “lollipops and small toys” in sample packages, Brill says."
- Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis by Paula J. Caplan @ Amazon.com - "The public has a right to know that when they go to a therapist, they are almost certain to be given a psychiatric diagnosis, no matter how mild or normal their problems might be. It is unlikely that they will be told that a diagnosis will be written forever in their chart and that alarming consequences can result solely from having any psychiatric diagnosis. It would be disturbing enough if diagnosis was a thoroughly scientific process, but it is not, and its unscientific nature creates a vacuum into which biases of all kinds can rush. Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis is the first book ever published about how gender, race, social class, age, physical disability, and sexual orientation affect the classification of human beings into categories of psychiatric diagnosis. It is surprising that this kind of book is not yet on the market, because it is such a hot topic, and the negative consequences of psychiatric diagnosis range from loss of custody of a child to denial of health insurance and employment to removal of one's right to make decisions about one's legal affairs. It is an unusually compelling book because of its real-life relevance for millions of people. Virtually everyone these days has been a therapy patient or has a loved one who has been. In addition, psychiatric diagnosis and biases in diagnosis are increasingly crucial portions of, or the main subject of, legal proceedings. This book should sit next to every doctor's PDR, especially given the skyrocketing use of psychoactive drugs in toddlers, children, and adolescents, as well as in adults, and especially because receiving a psychiatric label vastly increases the chances of being prescribed one or more of these drugs"
Sexism
- Female Hysteria: 7 Crazy Things People Used To Believe About The Ladies' Disease @ Huffington Post
- Misdiagnosis of Men With Borderline Personality Disorder @ Psychology Today - "Men with BPD are:* More likely to demonstrate an explosive temperament and higher levels of novelty seeking than women with borderline personality disorder.* More likely to have substance use disorders while women with the disorder are more likely to have eating, mood, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder.* More likely than women to have co-occuring antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic disorder, and/or intermittent explosive disorder * More likely to have had treatment for surface substance abuse problems while women are more likely to have histories characterized by eating disorders and more prescription medications and psychotherapy.The following are some other issues having to do with BPD in men.MEN ARE LESS AWARE OF THEIR EMOTIONS THAN WOMEN: People with BPD have quickly changing, unmanaged emotions. Women, though, tend to be more comfortable acknowledging and expressing a wide array of emotions (aside from anger). While men have just as many emotions, society trains boys from an early age that expressing anything but anger just isn't done. Boys learn that real men are supposed to be tough and unfeeling, emotionally the opposite of women.This makes men more likely to distance themselves from all their emotions, especially painful ones like sensitivity to rejection, fear of abandonment, and the other emotions associated with BPD. They may simply not know how they feel, let alone deal with the emotion currently presenting itself."
- Society tells men that women are objects but when a woman is raped or killed that person has depression? I know a lot of people who have depression and they don't go around raping and killing people. Maybe it was because they were taught that women are nothing but objects to obtain and they should do anything possible to obtain that trophy.
- Misogyny Is Killing Women In The U.S., But Society Is Blaming It On Mental Illness | Bustle - "Houser's negative comments about women and the women's rights movement pale in comparison to the mindsets of some other violent criminals (like Isla Vista shooter Elliot Rodgers), but the misogyny is still there, and — in searching for a motive — it's in our culture. Misogyny, violence against women, and gun violence aren't being taken into account when we're evaluating the motives behind Houser's crime. Instead, we're blaming his alleged mental illness....Mentally ill people don't actually kill people very often. More often, people who are misogynistic, homophobic, or racist kill people, and that's an illness we need to recognize as something we create and control."
- When She Was Bad: Borderline Personality Disorder in a Posttraumatic Age by Dana Becker Ph.D.*
- "The subjugation ends not at diagnosis. Secure psychiatric units are not the safe havens from the troubles of the outside world that one might reasonably expect. They are places in which patients are treated as infants, micro-managed often to the point of having their exact locations in the building recorded every fifteen minutes, around the clock, 24 hours a day. In practice, antipsychotic medications serve primarily to pacify inmates (and frequently cause devastating and irreversible neurological disorders in the process—see tardive dyskinesia—who have very few rights to choose their course of “treatment”, and even less input regarding how long they are detained. Electroconvulsive therapy, despite popular belief, is still an incredibly common intervention in depression, with which women are diagnosed in far greater numbers than men. None of this contributes to a culture where a woman is likely to feel free to refuse treatment, to openly reject the bio-psychiatric interpretation of her distress, to say no. This is not womanly behaviour, and will simply serve to evidence further her pathology, her illness, her difference, her warped, inappropriate femininity." - Stigma and Sexism, Behind Psychiatry’s Labels @ Bad Housekeeping
- Stigma and Sexism, Behind Psychiatry’s Labels @ Bad Housekeeping - "No diagnostic entity has attracted more vehement criticism from feminist thinkers than “borderline personality disorder”, a category into which women are pigeon holed up to seven times more frequently than men. The charge that BPD represents a label to classify those who display unacceptable feminine attributes is well justified: criteria for diagnosis include impulsivity (casual sex & frivolous spending are mentioned explicitly), anger and aggression (both seen as perfectly natural when expressed by a male). In each case, accepted gender roles demand that women refrain from the exact activities that are excused, explained away, and even outright encouraged in men. Many of the women diagnosed with BPD are positioned as having a “problem with authority” or some other similar sentiment. Dana Becker has described the label of BPD as “little more than a short-hand for a difficult, angry, female client certain to give the therapist […] headaches”"
- Sexism in Mental Health Practice by Paula J. Caplan @ Psychology Today - "As decades passed, successive editions of the manual of psychiatric diagnosis ballooned in size, swollen as more and more unvalidated categories of alleged mental illness (Stuttering, Nicotine Dependence Disorder, Caffeine-Induced Sleep Disorder, Major Depressive Episode that applied on the first day of bereavement, etc.) were put into the manual that the American Psychiatric Association and its leaders touted as scientifically based (even while many simultaneously covered their bases by saying it was really only a common language). Increasingly, research revealed the sexism pervading so many of the categories—the way they were designed, the way they were assigned, or both. (See Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis for many chapters about sexism in diagnosis, as well as some on racism, classism, ageism, and homophobia in diagnosis...Thus, for instance, women who have been sexually assaulted are often labeled with "Bipolar Disorder" rather than told that of course they sometimes feel devastated—they have, after all, been raped."
- Read Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs You're Taking, The Sleep You're Missing, The Sex You're Not Having, and What's Really Making You Crazy by Julie Holland
- Medicating Women’s Feelings by Julie Holland from NY Times
Racism
Just because it isn't Christian or Catholic doesn't mean it's a mental illness
People claim freedom of religion,yet if you don't believe what the catholic or christian faith believes you are labeled a terrorist or a psycho and they want to throw you in Guantanamo bay or a psych ward.Just so you know, Christians look just as psychotic to atheists as New Agers and Wiccans look crazy to Christians and Catholics.And Christians are just like terrorists to Pagans.Even for people who don't read the bible, there are sure a lot of christian ideology going around.
People claim freedom of religion,yet if you don't believe what the catholic or christian faith believes you are labeled a terrorist or a psycho and they want to throw you in Guantanamo bay or a psych ward.Just so you know, Christians look just as psychotic to atheists as New Agers and Wiccans look crazy to Christians and Catholics.And Christians are just like terrorists to Pagans.Even for people who don't read the bible, there are sure a lot of christian ideology going around.
- Self-Described Spiritual People at Greater Risk of Mental Health Issues @ Good therapy - Note: I believe it is because oters do not understand New Age beliefs,etc. so they claim it is a mental illness.
- ♆ The Macho Response ♆: NewAge Thinking IS A Mental Illness
- Troubled Souls: Spirituality as a Mental Health Hazard @ Psychology Today - "Claims that “spirituality” is beneficial for mental health (see this article (link is external) for example) have been criticised on the grounds that definitions of spirituality have been broadened so much that they imply mental health by definition (Koenig, 2008). Spirituality traditionally had a narrow definition centred on belief in supernatural spirits such as God. However, mental health services have become increasingly interested in addressing the “spiritual” needs of consumers in recent times, and as a result attempts have been made to redefine the term in a way that would be maximally inclusive, so as to apply to people from diverse religious backgrounds and to those with no religion (Koenig, 2008). Many studies have broadened the term to incorporate a wide range of positive psychological concepts, such as purpose in life, hopefulness, social connectedness, peacefulness and well-being in general. This becomes problematic for research attempting to assess the relationship between “spirituality” and mental health because by most definitions good mental health implies that a person has some purpose in life, is hopeful, socially connected and has peace and well-being...An earlier study on the personality traits associated with “spirituality” andreligiosity might shed some light onto the relationship between spirituality and mental disorder (Saucier & Skrzypińska, 2006). Spirituality in this study was defined as “quest for meaning, unity, connectedness to nature, humanity, and the transcendent."
Nanny State
- Nanny state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Nanny state is a term of British origin that conveys a view that a government or its policies are overprotective or interfering unduly with personal choice.[1] The term "nanny state" likens government to the role that a nanny has in child rearing. An early usage of the term comes from Conservative British MP Iain Macleod who referred to "what I like to call the nanny state" in the December 3, 1965 edition of The Spectator."
- The Nanny State | Cato Institute
- Nanny state - definition of nanny state by The Free Dictionary
- Amazon.com: Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children (9780767924320): David Harsanyi: Books
- Australia's nanny state: A case of arrested development? - BBC News
- Nanny State Has Become Government’s Default Posture - Bob Barr
- 18 Examples Of The Nanny State Gone Wild
- Nanny State - What Does It Mean?
- Nanny State - Conservapedia
- America's 'Nanny State' Laws
Therapeutic State
- The Therapeutic State: Justifying Government at Century's End: James L. Nolan Jr.: 9780814757918: Amazon.com: Books
- Thomas Szasz quotes, the Therapeutic State—Alliance Between Government & Psychiatry | CCHR International
- Beyond the Therapeutic State | The Taos Institute
- Curing the Therapeutic State: Thomas Szasz interviewed by Jacob Sullum - Reason.com
- The Man Versus the Therapeutic State - Reason.com
- First Principles - Therapeutic State
- Independence From the Therapeutic State - Mad In America
- Stalking the Therapeutic State | Intercollegiate Studies Institute: Educating for Liberty
- \Szasz, Thomas S. The Therapeutic State: Psychiatry in the Mirror of Current Events. Buffalo,
PSYCHIATRY'S oppression of Freethought
Why do we all have to think and act the same? It seems we all have to be "perfect" in order to exist. It seems that the DSM/psychiatry association is living in some weird made-for-tv movies in the 1950s where everything is perfect and hunky dory and everyone is wholesome and acts the same like robots.
- Psych Gripe - "A Bitter PillI am a mental health professional of many years' service. I am not anti-psychiatry but wish to promote critical thought and questioning in a field dominated by ideology, fads, wishful thinking, and overconfidence."
- Category:Anti-psychiatry From Wikipedia
- Welcome to Stopshrinks Org!
- Category:Anti-psychiatry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Category:Political abuses of psychiatry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- the Neurocritic - "Deconstructing the most sensationalistic recent findings in Human Brain Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Psychopharmacology." Not really anti-psychiatry. Makes a good post about good brain/bad brain.
- Psychiatry-the same survival mindset as being tortured/12 stages of grief/same mindset as PTSD/ Body policing (1984 style) by WLI
Freedom of thought
Freethought ideology
- Potential Medical and Surgical Complications of Serotonergic Antidepressant Medications - ""Serotonergic antidepressants are the most widely used group of antidepressant medications. Although generally considered to have a favorable adverse-effect profile, serotonergic antidepressants are associated with potentially dangerous medical complications, some of which have only recently become apparent to patients and clinicians. This article reviews the association of serotonergic antidepressants and the following medical complications: syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion, bleeding, serotonin syndrome, serotonin-discontinuation syndrome, and adverse pregnancy and neonatal effects. Physicians need to remain aware of these potential medical complications and integrate this information into their clinical decision-making, informedconsent process, baseline assessment, and follow-up monitoring.""
- RxList (dot) com - research side effects, deaths,etc.
- Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker - "Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world’s poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what is perhaps Whitaker’s most damning revelation, Mad in America examines how drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were more effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects.A haunting, deeply compassionate book—now revised with a new introduction—Mad in America raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, the meaning of “insanity,” and what we value most about the human mind." // "Antipsychotic drugs do not fix any known brain abnormality, nor do they put brain chemistry back into balance. What they do is alter brain function in a manner that diminishes certain characteristic symptoms...." @ Wikipedia
"may cause suicidal thoughts"
- The Dark Side of a Pill - Documentary @ Link TV - "THE DARK SIDE OF A PILL is an exclusive, case-driven investigation into the one of the medical success stories of our time. One in ten adults in the Western world is on antidepressants. With global sales of approximately 20 billion dollars, these prescription drugs are among the most lucrative products of the medical industry. But the wonder drug has a dark side. Violence and even murders are now being associated with prescribed antidepressants in situations and with people who otherwise show no signs of extreme behavior. This is not at film that is for or against antidepressants. It is about informed consent and about openly acknowledging the real problems with medicating 10 to 15 percent of the population with a drug that changes the chemistry of the brain with an effect that at times can be overwhelming, even fatal." - Watch trailer @ Youtube
- Medication Madness: The Dark Side of Anti-Depressants - ""In Medication Madness, psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., describes how people taking psychiatric medication can experience abnormal behavioral reactions, including suicide, violence, emotional breakdowns, and criminal acts. Dr. Breggin explains his concept of “medication spellbinding”: individuals taking psychiatric drugs may have no idea whatsoever that their mental conditions are deteriorating and that their actions are no longer under control. He proves his argument by documenting dozens of cases from his practice and his consultations in legal cases."
diseases/ complications
- Institute for Nearly Genuine Research: Shopper's Guide to 22 Worthless Drugs @ Bonkers Institute
- Potential Medical and Surgical Complications of Serotonergic Antidepressant Medications
- Painfully Accurate Drug Commercial uploaded by CollegeHumor
- Breast Cancer Connected with Common SSRI
- Painkiller 'Will Kill People as Soon as It's Released'
Addiction, DEPENDENCE and zombie-like state
Overdose & Toxicity
Tricyclic antidepressant overdose
Paracetamol toxicity
Paracetamol toxicity
numb you / emotional blunting / apathy / zombie
- A Ridiculous Dose Of Antidepressants Made Me Emotionally Numb @ Elite Daily - “...I went blonde....And then the blackout drinking started.....And then came the toxic romance.....And then came the workaholicism...And then came the aloofness toward my friends…. And I realized FEELINGS, and BREAKDOWNS, and MELTDOWNS, and CRYING exist for a reason. We need the release of tears. I need the release of tears. And not just because not feeling anything was so inherently unnatural to me. It was because my self-destructive, bizarre behavior was directly connected to not feeling.”
- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors ( SSRIs ) and emotional blunting Biopsychiatry - “Anecdotal and published case reports suggest that some patients taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) experience diminution in emotional responsiveness. This study aims to define the individual components of emotion disturbed in these patients. Fifteen patients reporting SSRI-induced sexual dysfunction completed the Laukes Emotional Intensity Scale (LEIS), a questionnaire about various emotions. Compared to controls, patients reported significantly (p&0.05) less ability to cry, irritation, care about others' feelings, sadness, erotic dreaming, creativity, surprise, anger, expression of their feelings, worry over things or situations, sexual pleasure, and interest in sex. Total score on the LEIS did not correlate with total score on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. In our sample, 80% of patients with SSRI-induced sexual dysfunction also describe clinically significant blunting of several emotions. Emotional blunting may be an under-appreciated side-effect of SSRIs that may contribute to treatment non-compliance and/or reduced quality of life.” TON of information
- Do Antidepressants Dull Emotions?An Interview with Ron Pies, M.D. @ Beyond Blue - “Incidentally, for individuals with bipolar disorder, antidepressants may sometimes do more harm than good, and a “mood stabilizer” such as lithium is the preferred treatment. Careful diagnosis is needed to make the correct “call”, as my colleague Dr. Nassir Ghaemi has shown [see, for example, Ghaemi et al, J Psychiatr Pract. 2001 Sep;7(5):287-97]....Of course, we have not dealt with the importance of having a strong “therapeutic alliance” with a mental health professional, or the benefits of “talk therapy”, pastoral counseling, and other non-pharmacological approaches. I virtually never recommend that a depressed patient simply take an antidepressant–that is often a recipe for disaster, since it assumes that the person will not require counseling, support, guidance, and wisdom, all of which ought to be part of the recovery process. As I often say, “Medication is just a bridge between feeling awful and feeling better. You still need to move your legs and walk across that bridge!””
- Servier | Emotional blunting or reduced reactivity following remission of major depression | Medicographia - “Some patients taking antidepressants report that while they feel less emotional pain than before commencing their antidepressant medication, they also experience a restricted range of emotions and, in particular, cannot get a “normal” emotional response to everyday events that would usually be associated with, for example, joy or sadness. This complaint is prominent on Web sites where patients may post their views about their medicines, such as Cybercity and Rxlist. Box 1 provides several examples derived from such Web sites.The reduced level of positive emotion in patients taking SSRIs may be linked both physiologically, and in the minds of patients who complain about the experience, to reduced sexual interest. This has been widely described. There is a reduction both in desire and arousal. As always in studies in depressed subjects, there is the potential for confounding the effects (and after-effects) of depression itself with the drugs employed to treat it.1 However, in the case of sexual side effects, there is clear evidence from effects in healthy male volunteers that the SSRI paroxetine has an important and immediate effect on sexual function.”
- SSRIs Can Cause Emotional Blunting & Divorce: Article by Physician @ SSRI Stories - “The other side effect can do much more than alter someone’s relationship status. Ilardi explained that SSRIs affect a person’s anterior cingulate, which is a part of the brain that controls a patient’s “give-a-damn” level. Individuals with severe anxiety disorders can benefit from a little reduced error detection, but for some, like Hardy, it can take an ugly turn.“For two months I had absolutely no motivation to do anything at all,” Hardy said.Here’s the really chilling factor: Most of the time, patients have no idea they are experiencing either of these behavioral side effects.”
- Mindfulness Therapy May Be More Effective Without Antidepressants @ Mad In America - “The researchers explain that antidepressants are known to reduce the neural processing of both rewarding and aversive stimuli, causing “emotional blunting,” and that this may prevent the generation of positive emotions that are essential for therapy.”
- Antidepressants cause emotional blunting @ Dr. Marc Micozzi - “The sad truth about “antidepressants” is that we are somehow only learning these facts now, a quarter-century after the FDA approved them. And all along, there have been natural, safe approaches that work for mild-to-moderate depression.For example, St. John’s wort works as well as–or better than–antidepressant drugs. It was first approved in Germany for mild-to-moderate depression based on “historic use.” Plus, it doesn’t have the growing list of harmful sides, such as suicide (paradoxically), mass homicides (probably), birth defects and developmental disorders in offspring, and breast cancer in women.Also, what about good, old-fashioned “talk therapy”? In the 19th-century, they called it “moral therapy.” It fell out of favor in the high-tech 21st century. Yet many modern studies still used “talk therapy” as a simple control (because they knew it worked), so patients would not suffer while they tested some other unproven pill treatment.”
Electrical Shock Therapy dangers
Notable people
- Thomas Szasz
- "Thomas Stephen Szasz (Hungarian: Szász Tamás István /ˈsɑːs/ sahss; 15 April 1920, Budapest, Hungary – 8 September 2012, Manlius, New York (U.S.) was an American academic, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York.[4] A distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, as what he saw as the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as scientism. His books The Myth of Mental Illness (1961) and The Manufacture of Madness (1970) set out some of the arguments most associated with him.Szasz argued throughout his career that mental illness is a metaphor for human problems in living, and that mental illnesses are not real in the sense that cancers are real. Except for a few identifiable brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, there are “neither biological or chemical tests nor biopsy or necropsy findings for verifying or falsifying DSM diagnoses", i.e., there are no objective methods for detecting the presence or absence of mental illness.[5] Szasz maintained throughout his career that he was not anti-psychiatry but was rather anti-coercive psychiatry. He was a staunch opponent of civil commitment and involuntary psychiatric treatment but believed in, and practiced, psychiatry and psychotherapy between consenting adults." - Wikipedia
Psychiatric Surviors Movement
- Psychiatric survivors movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Psychiatric Survivor Movement History — MFIPortal
- The Ex-Patients' Movement: Where We've Been and Where We're Going - NEC Article
- Network Against Coercive Psychiatry
- MFI Wins Human Rights in Mental Health — MFIPortal
- Mental Health and Survivors Movements
does the DSM label regular behaviors as mental illness?
- Feeling Intense Emotions Doesn’t Make You Crazy — But That’s Not What Big Pharma Wants You to Think byby Allegra Kirkland
- Painfully Accurate Drug Commercial uploaded by CollegeHumor
- The people whom we stigmatize, sensationalize, criminalize beyond all hope of receiving appropriate, compassionate mental health care? Or is it society that is sick? Is borderline personality a mental “disorder” or just, well, people reacting to the way that anyone would to terrible things? You tell me." - Everyday Feminism
- Asymptomatic Depression: Hidden Epidemic and Huge Untapped Market @ Bonkers Institute - "One way to increase the prevalence of a disease is to broaden its diagnostic criteria. By providing physicians with an ever-growing laundry list of signs and symptoms to evaluate (insomnia or oversleeping, poor appetite or overeating, constant crying or inability to cry, apathy or hostility, fatigue or restlessness, and so on), the number of potential clients/patients is greatly expanded. However, a major flaw in this strategy is that it focuses exclusively on those who complain of sickness, while completely overlooking those who feel well. The present article explores the novel hypothesis that patients who feel well are, in fact, patients who need treatment. " - The signs and symtons section made me laugh. It sounds almost exact to what the DSM wants to pimp out as unstable.
- The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz - "In his view, the term "mental illness" is only an inappropriate metaphor and there are no true illnesses of the mind. His position has been characterized as involving a rigid distinction between the physical and the mental....instead of treating cases of ethical or legal deviation as occasions when a person should be taught personal responsibility, attempts are made to "cure" the deviants, for example by giving them tranquilizers.Psychotherapy is regarded by Szasz as useful not to help people recover from illnesses, but to help them "learn about themselves, others, and life. // @ Amazon
- Psychiatry: The Science of Lies by Thomas Szasz - "For more than half a century Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life's work: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry.Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness stands in the same relationship to the diagnosis and treatment of bodily illness that the forgery of a painting does to the original masterpiece. Art historians and the legal system seek to distinguish forgeries from originals. Those concerned with medicine, on the other hand-physicians, patients, politicians, health insurance providers, and legal professionals-take the opposite stance when faced with the challenge of distinguishing everyday problems in living from bodily diseases, systematically authenticating nondiseases as diseases. The boundary between disease and nondisease-genuine and imitation, truth and falsehood-thus becomes arbitrary and uncertain."
- Psych Gripe - "A Bitter PillI am a mental health professional of many years' service. I am not anti-psychiatry but wish to promote critical thought and questioning in a field dominated by ideology, fads, wishful thinking, and overconfidence."
- The DSM: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam
- There Is No Such Thing as Mental Illness uploaded by Stefan Molyneux - Note" Not saying feelings are not real but the definition we all know of is not real.
- Is Psychiatry A Scam? Truth About Mental Disorders, Psychiatrists Colin Ross & Corrina Psychetruth - "Is Psychiatry A Scam? Truth About Mental Disorders & Health, Psychiatrists Colin Ross & Corrina Psychetruth. Psychetruth Correspondent Corrina Rachel interviews psychiatrist Dr. Colin Ross about Psychiatry and his book, The Great Psychiatry Scam. Is psychiatry a scientifically based medical practice? Is there evidence that mental illness is a brain disease, a chemical imbalance or genetic disorder? "
DSM = gaslighting.
Martha Mitchell Effect
- Martha Mitchell effect @ Princeton - "According to Bell et al., "Sometimes, improbable reports are erroneously assumed to be symptoms of mental illness," due to a "failure or inability to verify whether the events have actually taken place, no matter how improbable intuitively they might appear to the busy clinician."They note that typical examples of such situations, may include:.... Infidelity by a spouse"
- Psychologists and the Mitchell Effect → Washingtons Blog - "The authors of a paper on this phenomenon ( Bell, V., Halligan, P.W., Ellis, H.D. (2003) Beliefs About Delusions. The Psychologist, 6 (8), 418-422) conclude: Sometimes, improbable reports are erroneously assumed to be symptoms of mental illness [due to a] failure or inability to verify whether the events have actually taken place, no matter how improbable intuitively they might appear to the busy clinician."
- @ Wikipedia - "Psychologist Brendan Maher named the effect after Martha Beall Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell was the wife of John Mitchell, Attorney-General in the Nixon administration. When she alleged that White House officials were engaged in illegal activities, her claims were attributed to mental illness."
Cassandra (metaphor)
about/info
- Applied Behavioral Analysis and the Use of Aversives @ Cortical Chauvinism
- “Aversive” therapy for autism and developmental disorders? @ Respectful Insolence
- What are aversives? @Totally Dog Training
- the autism crisis: Autism advocacy and aversives (part one)
- AUTCOM - Myths and Facts about Aversives
- Aversive or Punishment?@ Karen Pryor Clicker Training
why is it dangerous?
WTF is eugenics?
- Paul Bryant (Nottingham, England, The United Kingdom)'s review of In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
- EugenicsArchive.Org: Image Archive on American Eugenics Movement
- Eugenics, Forced Sterilization, the Holocaust, and the Gene Age
- The Kallikak Family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Society for Biodemography and Social Biology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- American Eugenics Society Records :: American Philosophical Society
- Found In The Archives: America's Unsettling Early Eugenics Movement : The Picture Show : NPR
- History News Network | The Frightening Agenda of the American Eugenics Movement
- Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
Terms
- Idoits
- Imbeciles
- Moral Imbeciles
- "Lunatic" - "Lunatic is an informal term referring to a person who is considered mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable, conditions once attributed to lunacy. The term may be considered insulting in serious contexts in modern times, but is now more likely to be used in friendly jest. The word derives from lunaticus meaning "of the moon" or "moonstruck". The term was once commonly used in law" - Wikipedia
F*ked up experiments
- Ten Days in a Madhouse: The Woman Who Got Herself Committed by Bill DeMain"
- TRULY DISTURBING VINTAGE PHOTOS #6 SHOCK THERAPY uploaded by Amanda Howard
- Read - Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull
- Belchertown State School - @Wikipedia // BELCHERTOWN STATE SCHOOL FOR THE FEEBLE-MINDED @ Atlas Obsura
- The Horrors of Insane Asylums | SERIOUSLY STRANGE Rob Dyke
- 5 Shocking Medical Experiments on Humans
- Rosenhan experiment
- Pure History Specials Bedlam The History of Bethlem Hospital // What was the Bethlem Royal Hospital? // @ Wikipedia
- BBC Mental A History of the Madhouse
- What was Moral treatment? (The fact someone had to create a treatment based on just being nice to patients is sad.)
- Vintage Photos From Mental Asylums Prove How Terrible Those Places Truly Were
- THE DARK HISTORY OF THE TRENTON PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL @ The Line Up - "In 1907, Dr. Henry Cotton became the hospital’s medical director. Cotton seemed a fine fit for the forward-thinking facility. He instituted occupational therapy programs and eliminated mechanical restraints used to subdue patients...Cotton claimed to have achieved cure rates near 90 percent during his tenure – yet his death numbers were disturbingly high. What’s worse, many of his victims were dragged against their will into the operating room Unfortunately, Cotton’s barbaric approach to mental health soon turned the center into a hospital of horrors."
- Top 10 BANNED Medical Practices You Won't Believe Existed REACTION! - YouTube
Segregation
- Involuntary Commitment vs. Arrest: NY Mental Hygiene Law Article 9 @ Albany Lawyer - "We are already too far down that path. It is idiotic that those suspected of being a danger to themselves have less rights than those suspected of actually harming others. Yes it is important to make an effort to protect people with dangerous mental health problems. But it is more important that we ensure this is not abused. Anyone subject to involuntary commitment should have at least the same rights as an arrestee."
- When the disabled were segregated @ New State Man
Purge
Neurasthenia
- Neurasthenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "As a psychopathological term, neurasthenia was used by Beard in 1869 to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, heart palpitations, high blood pressure, neuralgia and depressed mood.Neurasthenia is currently a diagnosis in the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (and the Chinese Society of Psychiatry's Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders). However, it is no longer included as a diagnosis in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders."
- Neurasthenia & the Culture of Nervous Exhaustion: Introduction | Neurasthenia & The Culture of Nervous ExhaustionNeurasthenia & The Culture of Nervous Exhaustion | Claude Moore Health Sciences Library: Historical Collections Online Exhibit
- Neurasthenia: A guide to Neurasthenia
MDA 1913
- The Mental Deficiency Act 1913
- Mental Deficiency Act 1913 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Mental Deficiency Act 1913 was an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which made provisions for the institutional treatment of people deemed to be "feeble-minded" and "moral defectives". "It proposed an institutional separation so that mental defectives should be taken out of Poor Law institutions and prisons into newly established colonies."
Feeble-minded
- Adoption History: "Feeble-Minded" Children
- Feeble Minded. – Louisville Weblog
- The Care and Control of the Feeble Minded
- Feeble-minded - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The term feeble-minded was used from the late nineteenth century in Great Britain, Europe and the United States for disorders later referred to as illnesses or deficiencies of the mind.At the time, mental deficiency encompassed all degrees of educational and social deficiency. Within the concept of mental deficiency, researchers established a hierarchy, ranging from idiocy, at the most severe end of the scale; to imbecility, at the median point; and to feeble-mindedness at the highest end of functioning. The latter was conceived of as a form of high-grade mental deficiency"
- feebleminded - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com
- Faces of the Feebleminded - YouTube
- Locking Away the Feeble Minded - YouTube
Dysgenics
Social Cleansing
Island of the Undesirables
- Islands of the Undesirables: Randall's Island and Wards Island | Atlas Obscura
- Islands of The Undesirables: Rikers Island | Atlas Obscura
- Islands of the Undesirables: Hart Island | Atlas Obscura
- Islands of The Undesirables: Roosevelt Island | Atlas Obscura
- Islands of The Undesirables: North Brother Island | Atlas Obscura
Mentally Ill
- The Taint of Eugenics In NIMH-Funded Research Today - Mad In America
- Screening for mental illness: the merger of eugenics and the drug industry. - PubMed - NCBI
- How Psychiatry Sought Asylum From the Insanity of Eugenics » American Scientist
- Eugenics and mental institutions in the early 1900's - James Watson :: DNA Learning Center
- Eugenics Archive Theme
- Eugenics | Treatment of the Mentally Ill
- Eugenics and Psychiatry: A Brief Overview of the History - Saybrook University
Ugly laws/ ugly people
- Project MUSE - <i>The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public</i> (review)
- The Ugly Laws: A Review
- Enforcing the Ugly Laws – David Boles, Blogs
- Project MUSE - The Ugly Laws
- When America’s “Ugly Laws” Hid the Disabled Poor From the Public Eye | Stuff Mom Never Told You
- The Ugly Laws | Disability in Public | Books | NYU Press
- "From the late 1860s until the 1970s, several American cities had ugly laws that deemed it illegal for persons who were "unsightly" or "unseemly" to appear in public. Some of these laws were called unsightly beggar ordinances." - Wikipedia
- Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns M.D.- "The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other ′black holes′ of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist David D. Burns, M.D. outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life.Now, in this updated edition, Dr Burns adds an all-new Consumer′s Guide To Antidepressant Drugs, as well as a new introduction to help answer your questions about the many options available for treating depression."
Deviance (sociology)
Structural Strain Theory.Labeling Theory.Social Control Theory.Theory of Differential Association
- @ Wikipedia - “ It is the purview of criminologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and sociologists to study how these norms are created, how they change over time, and how they are enforced.
- Norms are rules and expectations by which members of society are conventionally guided. Deviance is an absence of conformity to these norms. Social norms differ from culture to culture. For example, a deviant act can be committed in one society that breaks a social norm there, but may be normal for another society.
- @ Sparknotes - “Each society defines what is deviant and what is not, and definitions of deviance differ widely between societies. For example, some societies have much more stringent rules regarding gender roles than we have in the United States, and still other societies’ rules governing gender roles are less stringent than ours.”
- Theories of Deviance @ Cliffnotes - “The concept of deviance is complex because norms vary considerably across groups, times, and places. In other words, what one group may consider acceptable, another may consider deviant. For example, in some parts of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Muslim Africa, women are circumcised. Termed clitoridectomy and infibulation, this process involves cutting off the clitoris and/or sewing shut the labia — usually without any anesthesia. In America, the thought of female circumcision, or female genital mutilation as it is known in the United States, is unthinkable; female genital mutilation, usually done in unsanitary conditions that often lead to infections, is done as a blatantly oppressive tactic to prevent women from having sexual pleasure.”
- Sociological Explanations Of Deviant Behavior @ About -Structural Strain Theory.Labeling Theory.Social Control Theory.Theory of Differential Association
- Sociological Theories To Explain Deviance
- Deviance @ Sociology of Deviance - “Certain beliefs and attitudes might also be viewed as deviant by some social groups or cultures.” “A person may be viewed as deviant because of their physical characteristics. In this course, for instance, we discuss both obesity and extensive tattooing as forms of deviance. Each of these violates norms regarding appearance or beauty in the United States” So fat people are the same as a criminal? This is why I dislike social norms and psychiatry. Conform to our beauty type or die.
- Chapter 6: Deviance | The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology: W. W. Norton StudySpace - “It is important to remember that when sociologists use the term "deviant," they are making a social judgment, never a moral one. If a particular behavior is considered deviant, it means that it violates the values and norms or a particular group, not that it is inherently wrong.”
- Everyday Sociology Blog: Deviance 101
SUBJECTIVITY
- @ Wikipedia - “Subjectivity refers to how someone’s judgment is shaped by personal opinions and feelings instead of outside influences. Subjectivity is partially responsible for why one person loves an abstract painting while another person hates it.”
- @WIkipedia - “ It is often used in contrast to the term objectivity, which is described as a view of truth or reality which is free of any individual's influence.”
- @ The Aporetic - “People use “subjectivity” to get at the way the sense of self is composed of social forces that bear on individuals. They also use it to describe the way the sense of self varies with circumstances: it isn’t static. Disciplines like psychology or criminology invent new kinds of subjectivities: in the gilded age, a whole bunch of new “subjectivities” were made available/forced on people. “
- Mapping Subjectivity @ Mapping Brandeis Project -“In the Cartesian philosophical tradition, the "subject" names, in Peter Sedgwick's summation, "that which thinks and, in thinking, possesses certain essential properties which serve to define it" ("Subject/ivity," in Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts, ed. Andrew Edgar and Peter Sedgwick, 389). Considered in terms of the grammatical "subject," the doer of the action represented or performed by a speech act, we might say that we tend to consider the "subject" ("I") no longer as the mark of a social category or role (myself in my accountability to my "kind" as a woman or a man, a gentle or a laborer, a householder or a dependent on charity, and so on) but as the mark of a difference ("my" difference) from any and all social forms. The "I" expresses the author of a uniquely determined motivation and choice...”
- Human Subjectivity @ Philosophy of Nature - “Each one of us live in a world of our own; with our own beliefs, values, joys, problems and priorities. What is important for one is irrelevant for another. What is truthful for one is false for another. And what is inspiring for one is indifferent for another. Yet, we all exist in the same objective reality. We might conceive, value and appreciate it in different ways. But independently of our thought, the world is one and the same for us all.We are confined, by nature, to see the world from a subjective point of view. But subjectivity is relative.
Rebellion/insurrection
- @ Wikipedia - “Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order.[1] It refers to the open resistance against the orders of an established authority. The term comes from the Latin verb rebellõ, "I renew war" (from re- ("again") + bellõ ("I wage war/I revolt"). The rebel is the individual that partakes in rebellion or rebellious activities, particularly when armed. Thus, the term rebellion also refers to the ensemble of rebels in a state of revolt.
- @Vocabulary - “Insurrection is an uprising against a larger force that's in power. An insurrection can lead to revolution, but it is just as likely to be put down.
Neologism
If this establishes a mental illness than everyone who says “bae” needs to be locked away.”
- @ WIkipedia - “A neologism (/niːˈɒlədʒɪzəm/; from Greek νέο- néo-, "new" and λόγος lógos, "speech, utterance") is the name for a relatively new or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not yet been fully accepted into mainstream language.[1][2] Neologisms are often directly attributable to a specific person, publication, period, or event.”
- The Internalational Dictionary of Neologisms
- Neologism: Definition and Examples @ LiteraryTerms.net - Portmanteaus or Blend Words.Derived words.Transferred words
- @ Psych Central - “Neologisms can exist outside of psychiatry and be seen in mainstream language, but only after they have been created and accepted by society (example; Stephen Colbert’s creation of the word ‘truthiness’ which has become an accepted word in society).” See? This is why I get so upset and mad. IF it is accepted by society these words are okay to use, otherwise you are a psychotic person that needs help.
- @Alley Dog - “In psychiatry, it is not uncommon for severely impaired clients (patients with thought disorders, autism or severe psychopathy such as schizophrenia) to use neologisms; words or usages, or nonsensical phonemic groups, in ways that are unique to the user.” Unless it is accepted by society, then it’s fine. Pretty much the only thing that says you’re a psychotic person or not is if people like the word you made up and use it.
Self Ownership
- @Wikipedia- “Self-ownership (or sovereignty of the individual, individual sovereignty or individual autonomy) is the concept of property in one's own person, expressed as the moral or natural right of a person to have bodily integrity, and be the exclusive controller of her or his own body and life.”
- Self-Ownership and External Property@ Bleeding Heart Libertarians - “Self-ownership would seem to license the use of force in self-defense against the aggressive force of others; if I own myself, I surely have the right (i.e., the legitimately enforceable claim) to exclude others from subjecting me forcibly to their uses. (In Locke’s words, we are not “made for one another’s uses.”) Likewise one can arguably use force in defense of another’s self-ownership by acting as that person’s agent.But any use of force that goes beyond such defense would seem to be prohibited as a violation of the other party’s self-ownership. And that in turn means that the right to use force in defense of self-ownership (one’s own or another’s) rules out all other enforceable claims.”
- Self-Ownership and the Right to Say No - @ LEarn Liberty - “Did you know you own a person? It’s you. When you own something, you have the right to determine who has access to it. This goes for your car as well as for your own body. While this may seem like a simple concept, it makes a big difference in how we live our lives.”
- Nozick, Robert @ Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - “The thesis of self-ownership, a notion that goes back in political philosophy at least to John Locke, is just the claim that individuals own themselves - their bodies, talents and abilities, labor, and by extension the fruits or products of their exercise of their talents, abilities and labor.”
- The Philosophy of Liberty Self Ownership Freedom uploaded by freedividual
Shock Value
- From Elvis To Lady Gaga: Playing With Shock Value In Music @NPR
- What is shock value? @ PRogrammer Interview - “The phrase “shock value” is used to refer to the potential of something – whether it be an image, some text, or some form of communication – to bring out negative emotions in someone like shock, rage, anger, etc.”
- @ Wikipedia - “Shock value is the potential of an action (as a public execution), image, text, or other form of communication to provoke a reaction of sharp disgust, shock, anger, fear, or similar negative emotions.”
Cosmopolitanism
Individualist anarchism
The Individualist Anarchist - “The Individualist Anarchists were a diverse group of anti-authoritarian reformers and radicals who regarded individual sovereignty and free market competition as the answer to the social and economic problems of the day. They saw the State as the source and protector of big business titans’ monopoly power and accordingly of the laboring classes’ suffering and deprivation.”
The Individualist Anarchist
Mini-Manual of Individualist Anarchism @ The Anarchist Library - “The individualist-anarchist wants to live, wants to be able to appreciate life individually, life considered in all its manifestations. By remaining master meanwhile of his will, by considering as so many servitors put at the disposition of his “self” his knowledge, his faculties, his senses, the multiple organs of perception of his body. He is not a coward, but he does not want to diminish himself. And he knows well he who allows himself to be led by his passions or dominated by his penchants is a slave. He wants to maintain “the mastery of the self” in order to drive towards the adventures to which independent research and free study lead him. He will recommend willingly a simple life, the renunciation of false, enslaving, useless needs; avoidance of the large cities; a rational diet and bodily hygiene.”
@ WIkipedia - “Individualist anarchism refers to several traditions of thought within the anarchist movement that emphasize the individual and their will over external determinants such as groups, society, traditions, and ideological systems.Individualist anarchism is not a single philosophy but refers to a group of individualistic philosophies that sometimes are in conflict. Thereafter, it expanded through Europe and the United States. Benjamin R. Tucker, a famous 19th-century individualist anarchist, held that "if the individual has the right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny.”
The Individualist Anarchist
Mini-Manual of Individualist Anarchism @ The Anarchist Library - “The individualist-anarchist wants to live, wants to be able to appreciate life individually, life considered in all its manifestations. By remaining master meanwhile of his will, by considering as so many servitors put at the disposition of his “self” his knowledge, his faculties, his senses, the multiple organs of perception of his body. He is not a coward, but he does not want to diminish himself. And he knows well he who allows himself to be led by his passions or dominated by his penchants is a slave. He wants to maintain “the mastery of the self” in order to drive towards the adventures to which independent research and free study lead him. He will recommend willingly a simple life, the renunciation of false, enslaving, useless needs; avoidance of the large cities; a rational diet and bodily hygiene.”
@ WIkipedia - “Individualist anarchism refers to several traditions of thought within the anarchist movement that emphasize the individual and their will over external determinants such as groups, society, traditions, and ideological systems.Individualist anarchism is not a single philosophy but refers to a group of individualistic philosophies that sometimes are in conflict. Thereafter, it expanded through Europe and the United States. Benjamin R. Tucker, a famous 19th-century individualist anarchist, held that "if the individual has the right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny.”
Eclecticism
Autonomy
Civil liberties
Human rights
Individual / Selfhood
- What is selfhood? @ contentedness.net - “My sense of selfhood boils down to, is constructed and held to, by means of an internalised narrative. It’s the on-going story of ‘me’ the sometimes tipsy blogger, or ‘me’ the loving grandparent, or the ‘me’ who loves quietism, abstract paintings, Border Collies and a bit of J.S Bach. The narration of this story is endless; it builds, unfolds, revises, adapts and is held to by a continuum of mental activity – of thinking, of assumptions and beliefs, and of the representations of the mind in general.”
- @Merriam Webster - “The quality that makes a person or thing different from others”
- Self, selfhood and understanding @Infed - “Third, what then emerges is a picture of the individual and society as separate realms. There is a division between individual and society, between individual and social worlds. Such a view then allows politicians such as Margaret Thatcher to talk of there being no such thing as society – only individuals and families.”
Individual and group rights
- @ WIkipedia - “The concept of a right relates to the freedom from interference by other individuals or the government. Individual rights refer to the liberties of each individual to pursue life and goals without interference from other individuals or the government. Examples of individual rights include the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as stated in the United States Declaration of Independence.”
- Group Rights @Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - “A group right is a right held by a group as a group rather than by its members severally. The “group” in “group right” describes the nature of the right-holder; it does not describe the mere fact that the right is confined to the members of a group rather than possessed by all members of a society or by humanity at large”
- Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities @Learning to Give - “The concept of a right relates to the freedom from interference by other individuals or the government. Individual rights refer to the liberties of each individual to pursue life and goals without interference from other individuals or the government. Examples of individual rights include the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as stated in the United States Declaration of Independence.”
- Protecting Individual and Group Rights - For Students, Educators, and Trainers @ Beyond Intractability - “The theories of human rights' origins are contentious. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) asserts that "all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." It goes on to designate a long list of rights including:the right to life, liberty, and security of person,the right not to be tortured,the right to due process and equal treatment before the law,freedom of thought, opinion, expression, conscience, and religion,the right to participate in his or her countries' government,the right to work, and an adequate standard of living.”
- Human Rights, Group Rights, and Peoples' Rights @ Project MUSE - “A right is a group right only if it is borne by the group qua group. If the individuals who form a group hold rights as separate individuals, their several individual rights do not add up to a group right. For example, scientologists constitute a group whose members might be said to have a right to conduct their lives according to their beliefs (provided that, in doing so, they do not violate the rights of others). In saying that, however, we need not be ascribing a group right to scientologists. Rather, we may be saying only that individuals, including scientologists, have the right to conduct their lives as they choose. Thus, the relevant right is one held by each individual scientologist rather than by scientologists as a collectivity.”
Voluntaryism
Agorism
Self-determination
Bodily integrity
mannerisms
Idiosyncrasies
Pigeonholing
- What is pigeonholing? - "is any process that attempts to classify disparate entities into a small number of categories (usually, mutually exclusive ones).The term usually carries connotations of criticism, implying that the classification scheme referred to inadequately reflects the entities being sorted, or that it is based on stereotypes.1)Categories are poorly defined (often because they are subjective).2) Entities may be suited to more than one category. Example: rhubarb is both 'poisonous' and 'edible'. 3) Entities may not fit into any available category. Example: asking somebody from Washington, DC which state they live in.4)Entities may change over time, so they no longer fit the category in which they have been placed. Example: certain species of fish may change from male to female during their life. 5)Attempting to discretize properties that would be better viewed as a continuum. Example: attempting to sort people into 'introverted' and 'extroverted'.6) Criteria used to categorize entities do not accurately predict the properties ascribed to those categories. Example: relying on astrological sign as a guide to someone's personality."
Distancing (psychology)
- "If we accept that "mental illness" is a euphemism for behaviors that are disapproved of, then the state has no right to force psychiatric "treatment" on these individuals. Similarly, the state should not be able to interfere in mental health practices between consenting adults (for example, by legally controlling the supply of psychotropic drugs or psychiatric medication). The medicalization of government produces a "therapeutic state," designating someone as, for example, "insane" or as a "drug addict."In Ceremonial Chemistry (1973), he argued that the same persecution that targeted witches, Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals now targets "drug addicts" and "insane" people. Szasz argued that all these categories of people were taken as scapegoats of the community in ritual ceremonies. To underscore this continuation of religion through medicine, he even takes as example obesity: instead of concentrating on junk food (ill-nutrition), physicians denounced hypernutrition. According to Szasz, despite their scientific appearance, the diets imposed were a moral substitute to the former fasts, and the social injunction not to be overweight is to be considered as a moral order, not as a scientific advice as it claims to be. As with those thought bad (insane people), and those who took the wrong drugs (drug addicts), medicine created a category for those who had the wrong weight (obesity).Szasz argued that psychiatrics were created in the 17th century to study and control those who erred from the medical norms of social behavior; a new specialization, drogophobia, was created in the 20th century to study and control those who erred from the medical norms of drug consumption; and then, in the 1960s, another specialization, bariatrics, was created to deal with those who erred from the medical norms concerning the weight the body should have. Thus, he underscores that in 1970, the American Society of Bariatic Physicians (from the Greek baros, for "weight") had 30 members, and already 450 two years later." - Wikipedia
- Thomas Jefferson warned about the dangers of governmental interference in medical care and what we eat @ Snopes.
- "If the people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in a sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
- Citizens Commission on Human Rights - Anti website with TONS of information! Documentaries, facts, articles,etc.
- Watch THX 1138
Positive liberty
Negative liberty
.Liberty
Fight Narcissism's Youtube Channel - "Narcissism effect family systems, individuals and society. I use podcasts, comedy and vlogging to share my personal experiences, ideas and observations with others who are interested in learning more about themselves and thriving in spite of hostile environments, post traumatic stress, and/or abusein their lives." *Putting her channel here because she is my thought twin :D :P :). Almost.
NPD , AsPD, Psychopath abuse @ my blog Look @ Me! HPD Support Was going to put all of the info on there on this site, but I don't want people to think I am saying their issues are because of narcissism, AsPD or Psychopathy. This is a non-judgmental zone for people who have depression, BPD,etc. I didn't want that negative stuff on this site, or for people to say "see, you have BPD you're a Psychopath..."
NPD , AsPD, Psychopath abuse @ my blog Look @ Me! HPD Support Was going to put all of the info on there on this site, but I don't want people to think I am saying their issues are because of narcissism, AsPD or Psychopathy. This is a non-judgmental zone for people who have depression, BPD,etc. I didn't want that negative stuff on this site, or for people to say "see, you have BPD you're a Psychopath..."
Narcissism in psychiatry
hate speech
hate crime
Glass ceiling
Lynching
False sensory perception
Misperception of real external stimulus
Fixed, false beliefs that can't be corrected by logic
- Outcast (person)
- Social exclusion
- Blacklisting
- Social isolation
- Anticipatory socialization
- Social proof
- Petalism
- Group attribution error
- Shunning
- Send to Coventry
- Spiral of silence
- Self Censorship
- Snub
- Social Stigma
- Mores
- Socialization
- Information cascade
- Obedience
- Normative social influence
- Communal reinforcement
- Bandwagon effect
- Common ingroup identity
- Collective narcissism
- Deindividuation
- Lynching
- Dominant ideology
- Groupthink
- Collective consciousness
- Collective effervescence
- Internalisation (sociology)
- Mindguard
- Alarmism
Witch-hunt
Collective behavior
Collective consciousness
Collective effervescence
Collective unconscious
Collective identity
cultural code
Bandwagon effect
Diffusion of responsibility
Emotional contagion
Moral panic
Prolefeed
Public opinion
Mass hysteria
Public opinion
Folie à deux
spiral of silence theory
Herd behavior
Groupthink
Group dynamics
Crowd manipulation
Communal reinforcement
Social identity model of deindividuation effects
Hysterical contagion
Us vs. them mentality (AKA Social Identity Theory)