Now these ones are starting to upset me again. When I said it in 2015, I was a "raving looney with cognitive dissonance" but when a rich bloke says it, its true.
Don't know the details, of course, but it sounds like by saying you had "cognitive dissonance" that you believed you suffered mental illness but did not trust your treatment. That's no more cognitive dissonance than someone who knows they're sick but come to question their treatment or say their being "patient dumped."
If anything, I'd say it was them with cognitive dissonance if they think these drugs help by affecting the brain but can't be harmful despite that they effect the brain because they're prescribed in the wrong way (and malpractice happens from poor drug administration for physical ailments as well). That is, you had to believe everything or you were rejecting the very notion of mental health in the first place, or that you were a Scientologist who sees mental health care as evil, or other strawman (that is distorting what you said in their own minds as a lazy way to argue you, which is quite common but also unfortunate when you have a history of people trying to make you question your sanity in the first place).
There used to be a project I kept up with on monitoring the "censored news" (that is it would pop up and then disappear fast, likely because one of their corporate sponsors, who might also own said reporting agencies, decided it was bad for their business), and that included a lot about harmful medical practices (including psyche meds) that people take for granted as safe, when they really shouldn't. Though I don't dispute they help some people, if they can help, they can also harm for the very same reason (plus other reasons like addiction, how they interact with other meds and even certain foods and drink, by drink I mean like tea, and so on).
But when the motive is profit rather than helping then of course mistakes are going to happen. In addition to horror stories that only sometimes make the news (and often only briefly) I've come across personal stories too often than makes me wonder if it's far more common than I realize, which includes one put on psyche meds when he didn't want it that made him psychotic, a mother who went into a homicidal rage to which paramedics said sometimes that happened (but she wasn't warned of it before taking it), and a peaceful man who became dangerously paranoid from his anti-anxiety meds, that is the pills don't help, but hurt, because they affect the brain and were improperly prescribed. The lack of research on a lot of procedures, especially something as hard to gauge as mental health, makes it all too prone to mistakes and outright abuse.
'Course that doesn't make the "alternative" healers selling woo, the Scientologists, and others correct, either, and it's unfortunate that those people can be used to discredit people with valid concerns and traumatic experiences as yourself.
Ah well, bookmark it. Because it will likely disappear down the memory hole as well.
thewest.com.au
