Ninja-kitty

@vauntedrevelrie Yep

I’ll say it: Get off your damn psych meds if you feel like you should get off your damn psych meds! “Oh, but you’re so much…” FUCK THAT. If something feels off, it’s off. Listen to your body. Listen to your mind. Get off the damn psych meds!

@matthewbaszucki Psychiatric Troll

When I see homeless people talking to themselves on the streets, I always think to myself: That could have been me. I was running around psychotic on the streets of Los Angeles in 2017. Fortunately my dad found me and took me to the psych ward for my fourth hospitalization. We need to mainstream metabolic psychiatry so more people can recover!

@HardtMasonry Perfect description of the reality & hell people are subject to under the claim of care. Better options are known but shut down.

1980's Soteria House: "You are having bipolar episodes or schizophrenic-like symptoms? Stay with us for a while. We are people who have been through it. We will treat you with dignity, patience, love, compassion, and understanding, typically with no or very little medication. You can leave at any time. You can chill in the back yard under a tree. You can read a book, run around the yard or do some gardening outside in the sun too. The two year follow up study will show a greater recovery rate without medication, but we will be shut down due to lack of funding because possible lobbyists are pushing for the chemical imbalance theory and meds for some industries. Today's Mental Health Facilities: "You are having manic bipolar episodes or schizophrenic-like symptoms? You have to legally, against your will, stay here for a while. You have a disease and are a threat to yourself and the community. You need medication for life, but first, strip naked so we can feel safe even though this feeling in you is triggering a root cause we won't get to talk about, then put this robe on wearing only underwear so you feel more vulnerable and triggered for a few days. In a few more days you can wear regular clothes and shower. You will have no access to the outside world. Don't worry about your job, rent, or bills. They will be there in a few weeks or month to worry about and cause you more distress after this. We have an amazing exercise facility called the hallway. You can walk up and down with the other over medicated zombies, that you will be like in a few days, for hours in a bright white hallway with neutral blan art with no need to worry about sunlight. It's so relaxing Don't worry about the people moaning, screaming, and chanting at night. You won't get any REM sleep anyways with our caring nurse taking your vitals every hour. This makes you more tired, frustrated, confused, delusional and uncooperative so then we can all subdue you or hit you with a horse tranquilizer and tie you to your bed until the meds calm you down and make us feel safe to continue helping you thrive. If you behave, you can do puzzles and even use colored pencils to color a majestic picture with positive affirmations, and maybe do some fun arts and crafts while the pop music & meds kick in. Then after a few weeks of not addressing any root causes, but actually causing more trauma, you will have a trial with the doctors who decide if you get to go. If you do get to go, we will be excited to see you soon and a few more times after that during your "finding the right cocktail" phase or "you stopped your meds too quick" phase. Either way....the puzzles, straps, movie nights, and more childlike treatment will be here that will keep the money rolling in and out of numerous avenues while you continue to decline and become dependent on us and the meds. There just is no other way. 🤷‍♂️"

@rexthetvterrier Thank you, my nearly 15yr old is not well

How would a happy, smiling dog make you feel right now? Well, here I am 😊 #Spike #Saturday #Dogs

@vauntedrevelrie They say yes, but it is rarely possible

Are people saying you’re mentally ill? “I have psychological problems caused by trauma, stress, and abuse. Will you help me by listening to me tell my story? Will you listen and not judge? Can you do that for me?” See what they say.

@iluminatibot 😆

I'm getting sick of the CIA reading my posts on X but not liking or sharing them.

@AetherFox_ It is so hard, you try to find those who understand, but there will always be others that come in & judge.

I have reached the point of chronic illness where I don’t want to be around other people because they continue misunderstand me. They can’t see what I’m living with, they can’t feel it, and I want to scream it at the top of my lungs. I can’t do anymore “just go for a walk”, “just get out more”, and overlooking and disrespecting the vast, vast amount of fortitude it takes to live with invisible illness. Having it mischaracterised as a character flaw, over and over and over again, and then going home and crying about it feeling more alone than when I left. At the same time, I know I need human interaction. That I need to keep living to some extent. How do you go about this?

@HardtMasonry 100% children taught that mistakes & behavior are dealt with using violence, can grow up to solve their own problems that way. Teach them with love & better ways

Want to fuck up your kids nervous system leading to future addiction and mental health problems because you can't control yourself from being treated the same way as a child?...keep yelling at them and spanking them! Could you imagine screaming at or spanking a coworker or someone in public because they made a mistake? Somehow we have accepted and normalized doing this to children as a way to teach them right from wrong. You aren't creating a disciplined well behaved child. You are creating a child run by fear and punishment. Let's stop calling it "spanking" too. You are straight up hitting a child. That teaches a child to get what they want from others is by physical control. It's not your fault this may have been how you were raised, but it is your responsibility to see it and change it. Heal your own inner child wounds before they get passed on.

@BasedPsychMD It is very hard for those who have not been thru it to understand. It is often too much for them to believe & that is how they have been programmed

Its funny when I tell random people in my life about the absolute state of medicine/psychiatry. Its hard for regular people to fathom that entire practices are dedicated to getting your kid an ADHD diagnosis and starting meds for it. They charge tons of $$$ too.

@stevenmaskill1 I am so sorry, he was such a beautiful boy, my heart goes out to you

RIP big man , Brian 2014 - 2026 🌈 run and roll free until we meet again 💔💔

@jonathanstea @ACsomenumbers @DrAnnieHickox Psychiatry creates the stigma, it needs it to keep control. Any profession that refuses to address the harm it causes & i tead blames those harmed must be stopped

@ACsomenumbers @DrAnnieHickox Parroting false pseudoscientific claims that deters treatment seeking and stigmatizes patients hurts patients.

Lived experience is not data.

@cubbi10284 Bottom line is they were not there so they can not possibly know, yet any reversal of diagnosis would have reprocusions & it is better for them to dig in & refuse to admit wrong.

The concessions I reference are opinions given at tribunal of abuse likely occurring and if my reports are true, the diagnosis would change to PTSD. These are significant statements made contradicting the diagnosis completely, and an alternative explanation for my behaviour.

@RenataRykowska Exactly, they keep amending laws claiming to improve patient care, safe guards & accountability when they are doing the opposite. I didn't vote for our leader to authorize this form of torture.

Australia has an alarming level of compulsory ECT. In South Australia, ECT can be authorised by a tribunal without the patient’s consent. Adelaide is saturated with ECT services, and new facilities continue to open and expand capacity. This is not merely a clinical issue. It is a civil-rights and human-rights issue. When the law allows psychiatrists and tribunals to override a person’s refusal, the crucial safeguard of informed consent becomes dangerously weak. The very institutions recommending ECT often provide it, document it and defend it. Where is the genuinely independent scrutiny? Australia approved at least 1,700 compulsory ECT orders in 2023–24, and the real number may be substantially higher because reporting is incomplete. Instead of continually finding new legal routes to impose electroshock, governments should be strengthening the right to refuse, publishing complete national data and independently investigating reports of permanent memory loss and cognitive disability. A medical procedure does not become ethical merely because coercion has been legalised. #StopECT #PatientRights #InformedConsent #MedicalEthics #HumanRights

I received a private report alleging that people in New Zealand have been subjected to repeated compulsory ECT—sometimes 40 or 50 treatments—and that it was used as punishment or to silence dissent. Did New Zealand learn nothing from Janet Frame? Born in Dunedin, she was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, confined in psychiatric institutions and subjected to repeated electroshock. A lobotomy was cancelled only after her first book, The Lagoon and Other Stories, won a major literary award. Her story is celebrated. But has its warning been forgotten? An official November 2024 audit confirms that ECT was still being provided at Dunedin Hospital. Who authorises compulsory ECT today? How are consent and capacity assessed? Where is the genuinely independent review of cumulative memory loss, cognitive injury and survivor testimony? The same institution cannot diagnose, detain, administer ECT, assess the harm and then investigate itself. Janet Frame should not be remembered only as a literary icon. She should be remembered as a warning. #JanetFrame #StopECT #PatientRights #InformedConsent #MedicalEthics

@RenataRykowska Agree & it only seems to be getting worse.

That is abhorrent—and it exposes how fragile these supposed legal safeguards really are. The Tribunal’s own website says ordinary ECT applications usually take five to seven days, allowing time for notification and patient advocacy. But when psychiatrists want to proceed sooner, they can seek “emergency ECT approval” from the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist. The Tribunal may then be informed only after approval has already been granted, so it can avoid scheduling the hearing when ECT is administered. So the institution seeking to impose ECT can use an administrative emergency pathway to bypass prior independent scrutiny. A procedure capable of causing profound memory loss and cognitive harm should never depend primarily upon forms completed within the same psychiatric system requesting permission to perform it. Every emergency authorisation should require immediate independent legal representation, documented reasons, publication of anonymised statistics, automatic external review and a genuine opportunity for the patient to be heard. Rights that disappear when a psychiatrist declares urgency are not meaningful rights. #ECT #ElectroconvulsiveTherapy #PatientRights #MedicalEthics #HumanRights #InformedConsent #DoNoHarm #StopECT

@drannamedical @RenataRykowska @VanIslandHealth @BCOmbudsperson @LionAdvocacy @NinaKriegerBC @Dave_Eby @brittlecolumbia @peatearwoodmen It is heartbreaking & criminal

@RenataRykowska @Ninjakittyebt @VanIslandHealth @BCOmbudsperson @LionAdvocacy British Columbia has the highest rates of involuntary “treatment” per capita in the developed world @NinaKriegerBC @Dave_Eby @brittlecolumbia … it’s shockingly misguided and has led to terrible patient and public safety tragedies. @peatearwoodmen

@cubbi10284 And when those assumptions are based on bias & lack of understanding of the reality world, it is criminal.

Assumed delusions about real-life experiences that do not affect my day-to-day life do not require long-term detention. This is insane.

@jago_girl 😆🥰

Saffy enjoying a quiet stroll before she got told off for jumping out to intercept a cyclist 😈😤

@joannamoncrieff They claim the majority of prisoners are undiagnosed, more like they are easy targets & the real criminals wear lab coats.

Interesting article pointing to the less visible victims of over-prescribing, such as kids in foster care and prisoners often prescribed numerous drugs at a time with minimal informed consent. wbur.org/cognoscenti/20…

@samhall404 @Barbara45426641 Perhaps, but they have helped so many people with no real return, there is no one else doing that.

I respect your opinion but just because they aren't pushing their religion in every piece of media doesn't mean it isn't the driving force behind the organisation. It’s a strategy. Like I mentioned, they hit on real issues psychiatry has ignored, but they also take advantage of vulnerable people to build their platform. You can agree that psychiatry has massive failures while still seeing that the CCHR is playing a completely different game with its own agenda.

The relationship between Scientology and psychiatry is one of the most uncomfortable ironies in modern culture. Scientology is widely recognised as a high control, exploitative organisation with a well documented history of abuse toward its own members. Yet, its decades long campaign against the psychiatric establishment has created a reality that should be deeply humiliating for the medical profession, where a fringe group has managed to carve out a platform precisely because they are pointing at genuine, systemic failures that psychiatry has historically refused to acknowledge, even while simultaneously overstepping the mark on others. It is an indictment of any professional discipline when a group without scientific credibility can successfully position itself as the "whistleblower" against that field. When Scientology’s front organisations sound the alarm on psychiatric overreach, they are not acting out of a commitment to patient welfare. They are often weaponising the real history of institutional trauma, forced procedures and the reckless diagnosis of normal human struggle. The embarrassment for psychiatry is that, for too long, they have allowed this to happen. By adopting a defensive, insular and often paternalistic posture, the establishment has failed to be its own most rigorous critic. When the medical community reflexively labels all external dissent, even valid, patient led critiques, as "anti psychiatry," they effectively cede the moral high ground. They create a vacuum of accountability, and radical organisations are more than happy to fill it with their own toxic agendas. Crucially, this is not a monolithic failure. Within the psychiatric community, there is a vital, growing movement of clinicians and researchers who are working hard to break free from the old, restrictive model. These individuals are actively pushing for a more humanistic approach, one that prioritises trauma informed care, acknowledges the socio economic roots of distress and treats patients as experts on their own lives. However, these reformers are often sidelined or stifled by the very system they are trying to change. The establishment, in its desire to maintain a veneer of clinical infallibility, frequently prioritises the official narrative over the voices of both its progressive practitioners and its patient survivors. When a field becomes more invested in protecting its reputation and diagnostic authority than in supporting those working toward progress, it is hindering the very evolution it needs to survive. Scientology is fundamentally predatory and abusive, yet they are masters at weaponising institutional hypocrisy. They have recognised that if you treat people poorly and then dismiss or minimise the resulting harm, you inevitably create a population of disillusioned people who will eventually turn against you to seek the validation they were denied. The fact that a group like Scientology can gain traction by calling out the medicalisation of human distress or the misuse of power proves that the establishment has been too busy defending its authority to do the hard work of self correction. If the psychiatric establishment had spent the last several decades amplifying its own internal reformers, listening to them rather than silencing them, radical groups would have no fuel for their campaigns. Instead, by doubling down on a defensive, top down model, the institution has made it unnecessarily difficult for its own best minds to lead the way forward. The tragedy is that often patients caught in this struggle find themselves between a medical system that is too defensive to listen and a radical organisation that seeks to exploit their pain for its own power. For much of psychiatry, the ultimate embarrassment is that it has allowed its most defensive elements to drown out the reformers, effectively turning the valid concerns of patient survivors into a weapon that others can now use against the entire profession.