| illness" as metaphorical illnesses; like how "sick jokes" are not literally sick. Or how a dope and/or ill rap song is not neither literally ill nor literally dope. Misery, fear,
| tragedy, trauma, and problems in living are quite real though, as far as we can determine with our senses.
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Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote extensively about the history of
| psychiatry including Freud.
Szasz was an atheist Jew.
In the book The Myth of Psychotherapy, Szasz wrote about how Frued utilized psychoanalysis to be a sort of an attack and maybe
| vengeance against Christianity.
In The Myth of Psychotherapy, Szasz also wrote about how Freud needed a non Jew to help market psychoanalysis effectively, due to pervasive anti
| Semitism. That gentile was Carl Jung.
Szasz believed that only voluntary psychiatry should be legal.
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According to psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, "psychiatric coercion is medicalized
| terrorism".
Maybe read the books Heresies and/or The Untamed Tongue by libertarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.
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Bio, psycho, social, spiritual is one metaphorical lens that can be
| right for all adults when it is done in private.
We supposedly have a separation between church and state. Let's also have a separation between psychiatry and state.
I support
| outlawing psychiatric coercion and nonconsensual psychiatry.
I am neutral to consensual voluntary psychiatry that includes full informed consent.
I am not pro suicide. I believe
| that it will be good if we can reduce suicides to zero using persuasion reason and kindness.
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Have you read the book The Medicalization of Everyday Life by psychiatrist Thomas
| Szasz?
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Ask your prescriber to help you taper? If they refuse, find a different prescriber that will (second opinion)?
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When do you think that coercive psychiatry will be
