Is this one of the reasons black men are overdiagnosed with schizophrenia in the UK and US

If I remember right black men are overdiagnosed with schizophrenia about 3 times more than their white counterparts in the US and the UK but not in the Caribbean. This information is taken from the UK's New Horizons strategy consultation document.

There have been accusations that psychiatry is institutionally racist. Whether that is true or not is not important to me. I know it is a system of enforcing social norms amongst other things.

This book offers an insight into the problem of psychiatry. (I've not read it but have a general idea.)

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201005/how-schizophrenia-became-black-disease-interview-jonathan-metzl#


And so today black men are hospitalised more, have more restraint used, have more use of coercive elements of the medicolegal framework used upon them and generally have a fucking shit time from the mental health system.

No wonder they're fucking hostile and 'paranoid' or withdraw from a shitty external world. Their beautiful human type is crushed by the illness in society and the insanity of psychiatry.

Here's an extract from the article.
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One key literature that emerges in the 60s concerns the persistent race-based overdiagnosis of schizophrenia in African American men. For instance, in the 60s, National Institute of Mental Health studies found that "blacks have a 65% higher rate of schizophrenia than whites." In 1973, a series of studies in the Archives of General Psychiatry discovered that African-American patients were "significantly more likely" than white patients to receive diagnoses of schizophrenia, and "significantly less likely" than white patients to receive diagnoses for other mental illnesses such as depression or bipolar disorder. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, a host of articles from leading psychiatric and medical journals showed that doctors diagnosed the paranoid subtype of schizophrenia in African-American men five to seven times more often than in white men, and also more frequently than in other ethnic minority groups.
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