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MH consumer advocacy info

Question:

I put this in another post, but since I often don’t read all the threads as I just don’t have time, I thought i’d put this on a new post so everone would have a chance at finding it if they want. I was walking past a leftist bookstore yesterday and since I had a few minutes to stop I was looking over the magazine rack outside which contained alot of mags that would never show up in other newstands no matter how large. There were magazines put out by prisoners in jail, radical environmentalists, and one that caught my eye and I had to go buy it. it’s called "DENDRITE Human Rights in Mental Health" There is a web site attached which is part of a consumer advocacy group: www.mindfreedom.org It was quite revealing. and I had no idea there has been this movement on for 30 years. There is info in there that is pretty scarry – about a political movement to force medications on patients involuntarily on an outpatient basis and how they are fighting it. How NAMI is supporting it with 11 million dollars donated by the pharmacutical industry and what those meds do to you that they don’t tell you. I urge everyone to at least familiarize themselves with these issues if not become members. They don’t speak to DID in particular but do speak to how the DSM is mostly political and very little scientific info put into how things get pathologised only for the benifit of getting insurance dollars to pay for the treatment. Gays and Lesbians lobbied hard and got themselves out of the DSM – it is no longer considered a disorder. Please look up the web site and read the info and make up your own mind. Alot of these issues especially the ones about the abuses of hosiptalization pertain to dissociatives and alot of what people here have been talking about are issues in common with this organization. There is no reason to recreate the wheel ( start a new movement) when one exists and is well organized. It is open to all and encourages people who are "survivors" ( of the mental health system) to stand up and speak out against the discriminazation that the "mental health" system and society do to people with mental disabilities. I love the picture on the front of the magazine "DENDRITE" There is a picture of 5 people and the person in front has a t-shirt that says: I Am NOT A Case And I Don’t Need TO Be Managed! ACESTAR

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How NAMI is supporting it with 11 million dollars donated by the pharmacutical industry and what those meds do to you that they don’t tell you.

NAMI is a pet project in action for Tipper Gore. If her husband gets into office, we be hurting!! Of course, the other choice is not any better…. IPlural

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That web site has alot to say about Tipper Gore. Even though she claims to have suffered from depression. She claims to be completely cured thus she distances herself form actually having a disability or even recognizing how people with mental disabilities are stigmatized in our society. She has come out for forced outpaitent  drugging without patient consent. This is something that goes against the Constitution and is being put up by NAMI as a goal to be enforced in all 50 states by the year 2002. It has been only defeated in NY and California because of the activism of MH consumers themselves fighting against the big money of the drug companines who would make big bucks if the government were paying tax dollars to enforce involuntary drugging of anyone who was not fitting into the small window of what is conceived as "normal" There are more choices than the republicrats. Since only about 30 percent of the elegible population votes anyway it is possible if people would stop thinking in black and white terms to make an alternative reality. ACESTAR – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – How NAMI is supporting it with 11 million dollars donated by the pharmacutical industry and what those meds do to you that they don’t tell you. NAMI is a pet project in action for Tipper Gore. If her husband gets into office, we be hurting!! Of course, the other choice is not any better…. IPlural

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