Do you give a shit about libya?

Freedom? Justice? The right to protest? Democracy fighting to survive?

Dead people?

So do you read this blog? The oppression of millions in 'ciivilised' nations. More deaths caused than gaddafi by the medical profession in the uk.

A history of torture and death unnecessarily wrought upon the mentally ill within developed world nations. Evidenced reduced life expectancy reduced by the malfesience of the psychiatric system and the lack of oversight afforded by calling different people mentally ill.

Repression the likes of which no one seems to understand or give a flying fuck about.

Do you give a shit about libya?

Patient involvement is a needed area of improvement in treatment for schizophrenia and bipolar in the uk

Most of my referenced knowledge is of schizophrenia. Most of my life knowledge is bipolar. And depression.

Anyway, that's where these rants come from. I am pleased to admit I've battle for 2 years to maintain an almost daily blog. There are thousands of thoughts, ideas and personal experiences. This includes my suicide plans.

That's got sod all to do with anything but this blog is really just written as a stream of consciousness. It's what's on my mind at the time. So inbetween me writing the title and writing those last 2 paragraphs I've clearly wandered off on one.

My mates are used to it. Since they've know me at uni they've known and become used to a drug addict with mental illness.

Wow. There is a squirrel about a foot from me wandering up my tree. That's so fucking cool.

Anyway...so yeah...a drunk stoner thinking in the park sort of realised that treatment best practice must include reviewss of evidence based on measures which are relevant to patients, not carers or policy makers or people who suck on my chocolate salty balls...psychiatrists.

I had a lot of help. My mate is a schizophrenic. She came off meds but after a while gave up because of the misery of madness.

She accepted treatment again because she wanted one thing. The cessation of the delusions and hallucinations.

Her doc tried antipsychotics. High doses. Different ones.

He didn't have the evidence to chose the treatment which she and many, many other patients who accept antipsychotics want as their sole benefit for which they put up with all the other shit.

There is a multibillion dollar industry which may only exist to market chemical restraint as a panacea. There's not a single fucking penny or iota of thought about what the people and patients want. Or expect. From doctors.

So hand the power back.

What is the relationships between the amount of money in the world and the percentage of people who are mentally ill

This sounds like the sort of absurd research question some wouldn't bother to answer.

There is a lot of money in the world owned by a few people. I wonder if any of them are mentally ill.

I assume bankers are the wealthy and they're rarely mentally ill or disabled in other ways. I mean investment bankers. They and actuaries make some of the highest salaries. Many are not disabled.

But most of the world's money isn't owned by salaried people. It's old money, governments and heads of blue chip companies. There are artists and musicians too but usually they make their money on their entrepreneurial spirit.

Initially someone might assume that the mentally ill represent little buying power or market worth because many of them suffer poverty. Someone might assume that a person with mental illness might be very successful but that person would be rare.

Here's the thing. Mental illness can be anyone. The definition of course is important. Who are the mentally ill? But I reckon the mentally ill are common place and there are those who excel because of and inspite of societys shit.

For example I wonder if those investors who bet against the trend or bubble are also more often mentally ill. I wonder if the people who come up with the bright ideas occassionally get rewarded, and those that don't are more often the mentally ill. I wonder if its true that psychopaths make great entrepreneurs.

Blogging in the rain

Only a mad man or a fool blogs in the rain.. I wonder which one people think I am.

But at the moment this is all I do. It seems this is all that's left.

This sucks. But a long time aho I got used to same shit, different day as a way to get through life.

A democratic mental health system

A system which understands the expectations of people. For example many might want the treatment of distress. There is no evidence for a lay persons definition of treatment of misery.

I ,ean a system ultimately run by the mentally ill. So homosexuals get to decide what is offered as treatment and what is ethical. I mean an evidence for their models of reccovery.

I mean the antithesis of current practice.

Should a democratic mental health system be about distress?

There's a lot of reasons why this is a bad question. For a start the is a an answer. No. A democratic system should be about the vote of all the people.

But there's many points to consider other than that. A democratic system for example? Psychiatry is a power structure. It is a hierachy which dominates the public and patients. Foucault or someone smart like that probably said the same thing. It is empowered to do so but it fails its responsibility to fullfill the unwritten convenant the medical profession have with the people.

There's more too. Can't be arsed though.

Automoton, the pejoratisation of normal and the concept of psychiatric normal

Automoton is a neologism. It started as an alternative word for normal. When the language is that of mental illness the are a lot of perjorative concepts embound in the words. Mad for example. It is a word like nigger.

Mad doesn't have many negative associations for me. In fact I've constructed a positive value and internal association. This isn't how the word is known except in rare circumstances.

This has been the answer to a long battle with self stigma. And also with the politically correct ideology.

In mental health many a conversation rotates around language. Especially in the uk. Shit. It gets on my fucking goat.

So I thought I would try the same thing. I play with language for good reasons. I perjoratise normal. I make it mean something less human and more like a robot. Flawlessness as normal I twist to take an inhuman quality.

It's almost normal disorder I guess...but that's another thought prompting idea on what is mental illness which I will save for another time.