A quick rant on the privilege of medicine and psychiatry and inhumanity

The greatest punishment that developed society does to someone is to
remove their liberty. Incarceration is punishment for a serious crimes.
The criminal justice system bases itself upon the edict of innocent
until proven guilty. The burden of the prosecution is to prove guilt
whereas the defence essentially has an easier role.

Psychiatry uses the same punishment in healthcare. It's based on an
assessment of risk and immediate risk. Beyond mental disorder people are
usually sectioned if they're a risk to someone else or themselves.

It seems innocent until proven guilty is irrelevant for psychiatry. This
is another example of how the privilege of medicine allows bad things to
happen to the mentally ill. There's is no burden of proof or psychiatric
'guilt' required. There is no jury or due process. There's just the
judgement of the psychiatrist at the time. They could be having a bad
day and just section someone on a whim just like I've been acute
tranquillised (knocked unconscious by an injection of Haliperidol)
because a nurse was angry with me.

The there's the crime of mental illness itself. Is it really an illness?

Let's say in100 years time society has evolved to understand that people
are different but each is valuable. People may still suffer and want
their suffering relieved while others may want to go through suffering
because they feel it serves a purpose. There may be a behavioural
control system, a system that is true to what it is and doesn't hide
under the privilege of medicine. There would be precise laws just like
the criminal justice system to ensure that people aren't harmed because
of society at the time's judgements.

What may be left are genuine neurological conditions but many of the
supposed mental illnesses, like homosexuality was, will have been
demedicalised and the beginning of the 21st century will be looked back
on as a time when great evils were wrought upon normal people who were
given labels like bipolar and schizophrenia.

Right now the privilege of medicine is used to pull the wool over
people's eyes. It's used to confuse and confound them and trust that
doctors would never do things that they would think are wrong, for
example masturbating women with hysteria. Things that can't be done in
prisons or in prisoner of war detention camps are being done to people
in psychiatric wards by doctors and nurses. The Human Rights Act doesn't
seem to apply to the mad.