#szaszian

Mental illness does not literally exist. It might poetically exist as a metaphorical idea. It is like the idea that a sick joke is not literally sick. The brain can literally be sick - stroke, neurosyphilis,

Civil commitment and the insanity defense should be outlawed. Ask yourself, how might that help to solve societal problems? Read the book Insanity by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. According to Szasz, there

We must outlaw psychiatric slavery. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz is correct; psychiatric coercion is medicalized terrorism. Szasz wrote about 35 books; consider reading some of them. Only consensual psychiatry

Psychiatrists are legally allowed to engage in forced conversions. Psychiatry implicitly deals with spiritual and theological issues since suicide prohibitions involve the potential of an afterlife (or

Psychiatric dynamics! Don't feel good? Have a drug! Don't like the way some one is feeling or behaving? Try to have them ingest a drug! Yes. These drugs have side effects. Some of these side effects can

We need basic income. We must defeat aging. We must outlaw psychiatric coercion and nonconsensual psychiatry. Read the book Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. Read books that psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote.

According to psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, psychiatric coercion is medicalized terrorism. Perhaps psychiatric coercion should be outlawed.

Is there a burden on society to “protect” adults who are planning to end their own life on Earth? That burden is manufactured and morally deficient. That burden probably ultimately prevents us from actually

Asking when one can consider someone free of mental illness is something like asking, when can you consider someone free from being a heretic and spreading heresy? Homosexuality was once considered an

Sanist bigots believe that psychiatric coercion should be legal. Sanist bigots think that psychiatric slavery (nonconsensual psychiatry) should remain legal. Sanist bigots medicalize suicide and misery

Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz labels psychiatric diagnoses as being literalized metaphors. Like Catholic priests supposedly turning bread and wine into the literal body and blood of Christ, psychiatrists turn

Mental illness is a lieralized metaphor. Misery and tragedy have always existed. It is only in the last few hundred years that misery trauma, and tragedy have been medicalized into what we refer to as

I hope all psychiatric survivors attempt to help outlaw psychiatric coercion and nonconsensual psychiatry.

Szaszian ethics is here to stay!

Read the essay and book The Myth of Mental Illness by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Mental illnesses are metaphors for problems in living, emotional distress, trauma, and uneasily explained behaviors. Mental

Do psychiatric drugs do more harm than good? Probably.

Some people do believe that there is no point to living on Earth. I don't. The point of living is to enjoy living, and to benefit self and others. It will be good if we can reduce suicides to zero using

Suicide should be respected as a civil and human right for all adults when it is done in private. Read the book Suicide Prohibition by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.

Are any political candidates attempting to outlaw psychiatric coercion and nonconsensual psychiatry?

Libertarians should focus more on the harm and consequences of psychiatric coercion and nonconsensual psychiatry. According to libertarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, psychiatric coercion is medicalized