Psychiatrized! Communities A.C.T.T.ing Out

from July, 2005

By Patricia Lefave, Labeled D.D.(P)

My "observation" by the community continues. This ongoing event has nothing whatsoever to do with me or who I actually am as a person, what my personal experience is with anyone, or how I feel about it.
This is basically a report from my perspective about what goes on around me, about me, in the non stop rumour mill in which I live as the "object" of observation and of a group public "assessment" of my life and experience.

We have been brought the "Assertive Community Treatment Team." The police department is now very busy working for the government sponsored "schizo" hunt.I remain as I have always been, to the aggressor in my case, to the staff of the hospital which performed an assault on me, in the name of either "fun" or mental "health," to the local "Caduceus Club" (local family physicians being "taught" by the psychiatric hospital to see signs and symbols of "madness" everywhere) a "fascinating case."
I am most definitely not a real person to any of them.

This is a group , or societal, metaphysical "illness" which has been defined by psychiatry as a physical "illness" with an internal locus. I have been proclaimed to BE a "disease." It is this attitude and behaviour of the groups who do this to a targeted individual which often CAUSES the so-called "illness." In other words, the group thinking and behaviour is excused and denied by declaring it all to be the imagination, hallucinations or delusions of the targeted person or "identified patient." "Identified patient" basically means the individual member of a group who is showing the most distress.

The fact is that, most of the time, if society and psychiatry faced the reality of the perfectly obvious group behaviour and dealt with it, instead of denying or ignoring it, the "identified patient's" distress would quickly disappear. This "illness" waits for Godot. There is no rescuer in this psychodrama because the potential rescuer has chosen to support, and then ultimately to replace, the original aggressor. The fact that the new aggressor does not recognize his own role in this does not make the reality of it any less real or true for the victim. In fact, it often makes it all the more horrifying.

The rescuer turned aggressor is certain that he understands everything just fine. His usually, genuine motivation is to "help" the victim whom he sees and hears through the filter of his own belief system. He therefore concludes that if the victim, now defined as mentally ill, doesn't want, or appreciate, his brand of "help," then it must be a perception/reaction problem that she or he is having...which then reinforces the pseudo rescuers belief system, and on it goes from there to infinite unwanted "help." Nothing the victim says or does will change the minds of those who want to "help" him or her, since once the reality of the situation has been turned around one hundred and eighty degrees, everything said of done after that has already been defined as "proof " of pathology. After all, that is just what ALL the victims say is happening to them is it not? That's right. That's what "we" say. Guess WHY we all say that?

The targeted person is treated "as if " she were crazy, stupid and unconscious very often until that becomes the concrete reality of the situation. This once again, and finally, "proves" how right the psychiatrist, and the group who caused just that outcome really were. These "diagnostics" are the self fulfilling prophecies of psychiatry. They are the tautologies which no one can escape unless the individual in distress can become able to see the whole structure from beginning to end. It is a rare occasion when anyone can be left alone without being drugged long enough to be able to see it with any clarity at all. The way the system is going now, I think it is going to be even less likely to happen since psychiatry is no longer interested in wasting it's time talking to those it labels within ten to fifteen cost-effective minutes.

If the world does not soon stop blaming the victims (or the victims' bodies or brains) while excusing the aggressors, and start blaming the aggressors and really rescuing the victims, I think the chances are pretty good there will be nothing left of the planet for anyone, anywhere, to continue worrying about keeping under control. The so-called "schizophrenics" are mirroring a schizoid society's self created insanity back to itself. When that supposedly "normal" society finally recognizes it's own face in that mirror, and the horror it has created, it's own denial of itself, and it's resistance to knowing itself, life for all will begin to change. A group healing of the "normal" majority will have to occur first. But, until, or unless, it sees what has been right in front of it all along, "hidden" in plain sight, nothing will happen. I mean that both ways, as physical and metaphysical, abstractly and concretely. The final outcome will depend, as it always does, upon the group consensus.

Why don't even psychiatrists understand this? Because psychiatry has constructed an alternate "reality" which it uses as it's framework of reference. Psychiatrists are far too well brainwashed to be able to hear anything, anymore beyond their own perfectly self contained construction. Will the majority step back through the "looking glass" out of the hell of this creation? Will it finally wake up to the truth about itself? Or will it just continue to blindly, and obediently, follow the leader which presents itself as "authority" for no other reason than being told to do so by that "authority?" It is going to be an absolute necessity to question authority if we are ever to step outside that terrible never ending circle and escape our dizzying, mutually destructive fate.

I sincerely hope we will all start asking all the right questions and demanding answers before it is too late to halt the long slide down this slippery slope to the bottomless pit of mindless power and control.