Pure
Specialist
- Jun 29, 2021
- 366
A few days ago I learned that within the next two years, Canada is expanding its MAiD services (state euthanasia program) to include people who have psychiatric issues.
It led me to find some articles by an American psychiatrist against this and some lectures he's done.
He states that the APA and the WHO have also come out against this.
Now, I find it interesting to see psychiatrists of all people to see this as a moral injury of society while ignoring the role psychiatry has played in driving people to suicide.
Dr. Komrad cites a man in the Netherlands who was euthanized because he could not handle being a homosexual. Now, was it not psychiatry who pathologicalized homosexuality for decades? Furthermore, Dr. Komrad seems to be Catholic and we all know their position on same sex attraction.....
I also want to point the issue of personality disorders. I saw someone (I think a psych) lament over how some BPD patients in Canada focus more right to die activism than "improving their lives" during psych appointments. BPD is probably the most stigmatized psych diagnosis, it's often given liberally to women and girls many of whom are just exhibiting trauma responses, and its material existence is debatable. Mental health professionals don't want to treat them and everyone expects that they'll kill themselves.
Psychiatry supports forced imprisonment via involuntary commitment, which is traumatizing in it of itself, not to speak of the fact that many psych hospitals are low quality trash. Very few solutions are offered except for medications, which don't work as well as they are portrayed ().
Anyways, I'm just shocked that psychiatry is seriously so clueless about why people are lining up to euthanize themselves given everything that psychiatry has done and continues to do.....
(side note: I am very jealous of Canadians)
It led me to find some articles by an American psychiatrist against this and some lectures he's done.
He states that the APA and the WHO have also come out against this.
Now, I find it interesting to see psychiatrists of all people to see this as a moral injury of society while ignoring the role psychiatry has played in driving people to suicide.
Dr. Komrad cites a man in the Netherlands who was euthanized because he could not handle being a homosexual. Now, was it not psychiatry who pathologicalized homosexuality for decades? Furthermore, Dr. Komrad seems to be Catholic and we all know their position on same sex attraction.....
I also want to point the issue of personality disorders. I saw someone (I think a psych) lament over how some BPD patients in Canada focus more right to die activism than "improving their lives" during psych appointments. BPD is probably the most stigmatized psych diagnosis, it's often given liberally to women and girls many of whom are just exhibiting trauma responses, and its material existence is debatable. Mental health professionals don't want to treat them and everyone expects that they'll kill themselves.
Psychiatry supports forced imprisonment via involuntary commitment, which is traumatizing in it of itself, not to speak of the fact that many psych hospitals are low quality trash. Very few solutions are offered except for medications, which don't work as well as they are portrayed ().
Anyways, I'm just shocked that psychiatry is seriously so clueless about why people are lining up to euthanize themselves given everything that psychiatry has done and continues to do.....
(side note: I am very jealous of Canadians)
