/dep/ - Depression

It's hit or miss. It can be extremely terrible or whitepilling.

In my first psychotic depression, I had a psych who basically mentally tortured me and the whole staff and patients bullied me. I was too fucked to fight back. If they had done it now, I would have either escaped by breaking a window and jumping out or somehow strongarming my way into having them declare they couldn't care for me (not with violence because I'd rather be around passive aggressive freaks in a ward than niggers in prison). It was terrible and eventually they just released me to my grandparents because I didn't trust them (wonder why?)

But after that, I had to see a shrink and by great good fortune she has been very helpful and the medication for my condition (schizoaffective) has worked. I can't work but I am volunteering at an animal shelter and maybe one day I will be able to go to school and get a job worth having.

But I am in Netherlands (yes we have niggers here unfortunately). So I am not sure how it is in America. It is probably more difficult since money's tentacle is all over health care.

Good luck.

Genuinely unless you're actually having public mental breakdowns or are a risk to people, you're not really forced to take meds. Most mental institutions are pressed for space due to the amount of Fent Zombies on the street, so they're eager to get you out the door as fast as possible. You can just leave with your script of anti-psychotics and not take them. I think because of this abuse is actually less common these days. When mental illness was a lot rarer and public services were better funded, a lot of asylums were eager to get their numbers up and would delay releases.

As for abuse, it does happen. I'd say 15% of the staff are supportive (typically the orderlies) and 10% do get off on agitating and winding up the mentally ill. Security guards assigned to mental institutions will be honest about seeing staff members goad the mentally ill for sport. That said, it's not like mentally ill people aren't typically total cunts themselves (which you'd expect). The goading happened to me and they got an excuse to put me in lockdown. But there's simply too many eyes for there to be actual chronic abuse, it's typically just lies and manipulation. Most of the people there just don't care about you, nurses sit around complaining that they're bored.

If you see navigating the process as some arduous thing and are constantly fretting about psychiatry and meds, you probably are genuinely mentally ill. Terry Davis was completely off his rocker and still managed to navigate out of psyche wards and not take meds regularly, it's not usually hard to do. I think the worst of the anti-psychiatry talk is overstated, and I say this as a mentally ill person that has been institutionalized and forced to take meds.

>>306971
>I had a psych who basically mentally tortured me and the whole staff and patients bullied me.
That's normal and good because after being faced with real social adversity and the humbling realities of how pathetic allowing themselves to be depressed is, most men snap out of it and take their recovery in to their own hands. That obviously didn't work for you so they shuffled you around and pumped you full of pills instead.

>>306974

I'm sure you're a "real man" with a wife and kids and own a business that allows you to travel all over the world and live out your dreams. You're on an imageboard where such men gather, so clearly you're one of them.

Did you miss the psychotic part of psychotic depression? Do you deny the existence of psychosis and schizoaffective as medical conditions? I need medication to function. Psychosis is the total inability to function.

Now go fuck your wife and have a cigar, real man.

>>306975
>Anyone who isn't slitting their wrists this instant is a pussy-slaying normalfag with kids who smoke cigars
Are you trying to parody something?