Psychiatry - having NO hard bio-scientific evidence of the existence of 'Mental Illness' as a pathology - remains an opinion derived, faith based practice. As such, its tenets self describe it as a religion. One needs faith [in copious amounts] in its prognostications for any 'healing' benefits to accrue.
Should a practicing Catholic suffer a loss of faith, they are guaranteed their inalienable right to walk away from that faith, or any other religious [or atheistic] faith they may have once embraced. Not so with Psychiatry. Once inducted/enslaved into Psychiatry's church, the Psychiatric label is as damning, and life destroying, as the red A that Hester wore in Nathaniel Hawthorn's 'Scarlet Letter'.
If Psychiatrists are truly interested in helping people, they can do so quite well Without State funded and State sanctioned Star Chamber powers. The existence of those powers is an abrogation of the very principles of the 1st Amendment.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, ....."
Congress has not only made Anti-Constitutional laws respecting Psychiatry, they're funding the living daylights out of it, with both sides of the aisle taking buckets of Pharmaceutical campaign contribution money to guarantee that they continue to respect it.
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