Title: Just Say It: Mental Illness Isn't Real. ~ Greg Benson | elephant journal
Headings: Just Say It: Mental Illness Isn’t Real. ~ Greg Benson
Just Say It: Mental Illness Isn’t Real. ~ Greg Benson
Lawmakers are pushing more coercive and voluntary “mental health treatment” as the fix for highly publicized shootings.
Mental illness isn’t real.
It matters because:
It matters because:
Maybe belief in mental illness enables us to stick to the rat race.
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Greg Benson

Content: An uncomfortable opportunity laden truth. A truth which opens space for enhancing the harmony and texture of our communities versus leaving the mess untouched by disengaging and pretending that we’ve mitigated it via unsuccessful stabs at the inhumane aim of drugging, locking away and silencing that which is inconvenient. Mental illness isn’t real. According to the psychiatric industry, mental illness is not a verified medical condition. Psychiatrist E. H. Parsons: “We have to remember that we are not treating diseases with this drug. … We are using a neuropharmacologic agent to produce a specific effect.” ( Whitaker, Robert. Anatomy Of An Epidemic Pg. 50 – 51).