Psychiatry Exposed

[Faith No More]

Here's another thing that it is so stupid that it makes me laugh. People who refuse and/or don't want to take medications, there's a name for that also ...

It's called "Non-compliance with Treatment Disorder."

You people are in serious denial. As a matter of fact, your unwillingness to seek professional help is itself a symptom of a serious mental problem. It’s right here in this book: 15.81 "Noncompliance with Treatment Disorder.”

– Mark Syverud, "Don't stop the insanity," the Daily Messenger

The DSM's Ridiculous Labels

I mean, it's just funny how such perfectly normal and healthy behaviors get categorized and labelled as mental disorders. Even one's choice to refuse professional help or medical treatment is deemed to be a symptom of a mental "disorder." And such labels can be thrown around too easily and vaguely without even requiring any scientific methods of validation behind them.

That is ludicrous.

Spend several weeks in a mental institution, and then tell me how ludicrous the "non-compliance" label is. Sure, the whole thing is highly subjective, but you have to understand that there are many, many severely mentally ill people that refuse to take their medication or participate in treatment. One of the issues with mental illness is it can make your mind unable to understand that you are ill, and it convinces you that you are sane.

You're approaching this whole issue from your own rational perspective instead of trying to understand that mental illness and its treatment require otherwise seemingly malicious actions. And yes, that does become a problem when subjectivity is involved, and there needs to be oversight. But to deny mental health officials the right to go against a patient's wishes would effectively neuter their ability to administer treatment.