Also, see this conference of Szasz speaking some of the quoted words in the above piece:

So glad I was able to dig up this incredible post. Read for yourself, even if you do have that tragic, short-attention “spectrum.” Think “misdiagnosis” and “labelling.”

I was utterly disgusted with the society I was living in (dumbed down educational system, feelings of general decadence, etc) which led me to lose a great deal of motivation at the end of junior high and thus cease to have good marks in certain subjects.

My parents, who were obsessed with my “success”, sent me to see several psychiatrists and psychologists. Only one of them understood me and even agreed with my societal judgment, the others basically redirected my “problem” towards myself. It was not society which was wrong, it was me.

I even had to pass a brain scan, which I accepted to prove there was nothing wrong with me. And indeed, my brain was not only normal and flawless, but from the own account of a nurse, “unusually big”.

It is only my intuitive understanding of what was wrong with psychiatry (at only 15 years old, I knew nothing back then on a theoretical level) that enabled me to politely leave the psychiatric system as it was closing in on me. Had I accepted to take some drugs that were proposed to me, I would have badly ended (I discovered later the side-effects of these drugs).

I learnt a lot of things during this experience, which were later confirmed by articles and books. If I were to choose three only:

(1) Psychiatrists are servants of the State, a parallel system of punishment for deviant thoughts and behavior.

(2) True mental illnesses are actually of genetic origin (such as schizophrenia), and the anomalies are observable through brain scanners. Anything that is not observable through brain scanners was simply deemed “illness” by people more powerful than you, and it is a form of societal enforcement. Today, it indeed seems that smart White children are those targeted by this societal enforcement.

(3) The inventions of psychotropic medication and the contraceptive pill in the 1960s were deal-changing, and had profound political consequences.

Finally, two links that can be of interest of Chechar, if he doesn’t already know them.

The Tyranny of Pharmacracy by Thomas S. Szasz: here and here.

I know this much: people who were badly abused when young have a tendency to go on to try and punish others through lying and misrepresenting and any other means they can come up with. They can’t get the real culprits so they spend their lives maneuvering themselves into a position where they find hapless substitutes.

C’est la vie.

It looks as if you identify solely with the abuse you endured, that the only thing in life is thinking and ruminating on that.

You still haven’t even leafed thru my book in this blog, have you?

Interview my kids? For heaven’s sake…

This was exactly the frame of mind that destroyed my family: Only parents have the right to speak. And teachers, counselors, relatives and therapists have only ears for the parents’ version (only after decades, after my sister and I grew and finally broke the taboo, a totally different picture of what happened at home started to emerge).

If I cannot speak to your children, I’ll never swallow your claim that you behaved like a “helping mode” parent and, “mysteriously” one of your offspring got emotionally disturbed. I have heard that tale thousands of times.

Bye right now.