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The people labeled as lunatics through psychiatry’s Diagnostics and Statistics Manual labeling are striving to take over the asylum. They’re taking part in the Occupy Movement and they’ve just held their first protest, Occupy the American Psychiatric Assocation (APA). On the fifth of May, they protested in front of the venue for the APA’s annual meeting in Philadelphia.

They were, of course, largely ignored by the APA, but watch out. They’re just getting rolling. If you possibly can, get informed and involved. As Gaia Health has shown you in Psychiatric Incarceration: It Can Happen to Anyone, it could be you getting locked up and forced to undergo drugging, electric shocks, or mind-destroying surgery. Help end this horrific destruction of people’s lives before it does.

Gaia Health has selected some videos of the talks given at the conference prior to the protest, and at the end is a selection of Blog Talk Radio shows by David Oaks, in which he interviews key figures of the anti-psychiatry movement during the run-up to the protest.

Adina Lambert is a psychologist and member of the International Society for Ethical Psychiatry and Psychology. She speaks with passion about the corruption in her own field:

When I see the lies that unsuspecting people…are being told, labels, ridiculous diagnoses that are being put on people that have no basis in fact, no basis in science, and then to make it worse, they are poisoned, poisoned, and that is true, by the psychiatrists who tell them that you need these medicines. … This truly does break my heart. The drugging of children is a total outrage. …I want to do away with the DSM. It is a ridiculous book that is full of lies—lies!

She tells how it’s growing worse. Her passion is palpable. [4:42]

Ted Chabasinski was given a childhood of every kind of shock treatment imaginable. That he survived is stunning. He’s a survivor who has become an attorney and spent his life in the mad movement, battling against psychiatry’s abuses. At Occupy the American Psychiatric Association, he’s moved to tears while telling about the abuses he’s seeing today. [9 minutes, 24 seconds]

This is a video of a bus ride to the first Occupy the American Psychiatric Association protest. Listen to the psychiatric survivor tell us, “There doesn’t seem to be a way out of the system. You’re locked into what they want you to be. They put you in a little box somewhere, say this is what you are now, and there’s no getting out of this box. [1:21]

David Oaks is a psychiatric survivor and now is a Mind Freedom International director. He said:

This is about being human. This is about pathologizing being human. To be human is to have extreme states. To be human is to wrestle with overwhelm. …

… We need our own underground railroad to support our brothers and sisters who are escaping from this involuntary outpatient commitment. …

… Some of these psychiatrists, after a fair trial, need to be put in prison.

He goes on to discuss that our planet’s ecosystem is being destroyed, which is the worst mental-emotional problem ever to visit the world—and it’s being caused by so-called normal people. [10:04]

Mind Freedom Ireland held a protest in solidarity with the American one. [1:40]

Here are some Blog Talk Radio shows by David Oaks doing interviews with other members of the movement in the run-up to the Occupy protest:

Need help to protect yourself from this truly insane system? You can contact Mind Freedom International at [email protected].

Jim Gottstein, psychiatry survivor, has spent his life assisting others in resisting the psychiatric system. He founded PsychRights to provide legal advice and help. He has given the entirety of his inherited fortune to the cause.

There is a new, and growing, page on Facebook, Occupy Mental Health/Occupy Psychiatry. If you’re already affected or have finally realized that you, too, could find your life turned upside-down by this truly insane system, then “like” it.