Posted by OldSchool on February 23, 2002, at 16:53:33
In reply to Am I overeacting?, posted by judy1 on February 23, 2002, at 14:44:51
> I find myself profoundly disturbed by some of Old School's recent posts on the Babble board, about Andrea Yeats sp?, about how therapy has no value.... If a person feels therapy has no value perhaps they should stay on the medical board. I don't see a dialogue developing here, I see (may I borrow Dinah's wording?) someone ranting. So I ask if I'm overeacting because I am in a post partum period and perhaps too easily triggered, Thank you- judy
Yes, I think you are overreacting very badly Judy. The psychobabble social board is for non medical issues and I was just expressing my distaste for much of what goes on in the mental health world and blowing off steam. I never at any point personally attacked you Judy, nor any other poster. I dont appreciate you coming over here on the admin board, complaining about me when I never said a darn thing about you...I know what your underlying objective is...to get me kicked off.
The fact of the matter about Yates is that while severe mental illness does and can create thoughts of violence or homicide, there is a fundamental difference between someone who has these thoughts and someone who actually carries out these thoughts and committs physical murder. Im sorry, but whether or not Yates was psychotic or not does not matter. She still murdered and murder is murder is murder.
I feel that using Yate's mental illness as an excuse for murder gives all the rest of us a bad name in a sense. It also creates much legal and liability issues for psychiatrists and sometimes complicates treatment...many times leading to needless overmedication because these psychiatrists tend to overreact many times. The reason they tend to overreact is because of legal/liability issues. Liability complications that filters down to all the rest of us mentally ill people, in effect creating an environment of ill will and distrust between psychiatrist and patient. I have personally experienced this sort of thing myself and know what I am talking about.
I feel we would all be better off if the mentally ill were just treated like regular folks...and not as mentally ill "psychotic" people. If you committ a violent crime while mentally ill, you still are treated as a regular Joe and still must go to a regular prison. Instead, youd be a criminal who also takes psychiatry drugs to manage a medical condition.
I believe in the total "mainstreaming" of the mentally ill and I believe that mental illness should be recognized purely as a physical, brain based neurological disease. Untreated its a disability, however it does not give you the right or excuse to murder.
Again, I dont appreciate you coming here to complain about me as I have done nothing wrong. I was merely stating my own personal feelings about this issue and never attacked any single specific poster. I find myself disturbed at your excess sensitivity towards something I posted, which was not directed at you.
Strong opinions should not get you booted on this board.
Old School
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