| It is a basic human right, upheld so far as I am aware | | | | I suspect that in other countries there are similar |
| by the constitutions, laws and customs of all civilized | | | | laws that would in one form or another also give one |
| nations, that anyone should be able to refuse any | | | | that right and certainly any government that purports |
| treatment he or she does not want. | | | | to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| One has the right to do so on religious grounds, on | | | | should provide it. |
| grounds of personal conviction or simply because one | | | | The medical profession generally does not enforce on |
| considers the treatment to be harmful or dangerous. | | | | someone an operation, drug or other treatment they |
| Psychiatric treatment is a case in point: brutal, | | | | expressly do not want, whatever the personal |
| invasive and physically and mentally debilitating, | | | | opinion and sincere advice of the doctor may be. A |
| psychiatry's three main therapies of lobotomy, | | | | surgeon, for example, who removed a kidney or a |
| electro shock and drugging have become increasingly | | | | medical practitioner who injected you with something |
| discredited, as has the bogus "science" that sought | | | | or other or gave you a blood transfusion against |
| to justify the harming and even killing of hundreds of | | | | your will would receive very short shrift indeed. Being |
| thousands of people in the name of healing. As a | | | | physical treatment, the same right therefore extends |
| result a large and rapidly growing number of people | | | | to that branch of medicine which administers brain |
| would not let a psychiatrist anywhere near them with | | | | operations, electric shock "treatments" and drugs. |
| his scalpel, electrodes or brain-and-nerve-damaging | | | | In Britain, if one wishes to protect oneself against |
| drugs - given the right to refuse. | | | | possible future psychiatric abuse and refuse physically |
| It is their right, being of sound mind, to refuse such | | | | invasive treatments such as mentioned above, one |
| treatment and opt for safe and effective solutions | | | | therefore can simply make such a legally binding "living |
| for whatever may be troubling them and thus turn | | | | will" through the services of one's lawyer. |
| instead to their nutritionist, dianeticist or religious | | | | One public spirited lawyer has responded to the high |
| pastor or whomsoever they wish, for help. | | | | demand for the service by providing it FREE online |
| There is a problem however, a nicely laid little trap, | | | | and I would urge any Brit to visit his website as soon |
| that can take their basic right to choose away from | | | | as possible and get that living will made. If you visit |
| them. | | | | my own Freedom Plaza website (see below) and |
| If they are unlucky enough to have fallen into | | | | click on "free living will" in the left side bar, you'll find |
| psychiatric hands and been labeled "mentally ill" that | | | | it. |
| basic human right can be denied them. Psychiatric | | | | If you are not British, I would urge you to investigate |
| "diagnosis" is notoriously arbitrary; it can vary | | | | the possibility of similar protections under the laws of |
| according to the opinion of the individual psychiatrist | | | | your own country. |
| and is based on no scientifically established diagnostic | | | | It is not clear how long it will be now before we see |
| criteria. The very "disorders" or "mental illnesses" that | | | | the back of psychiatry as its charlatanry and brutality |
| psychiatrists "diagnose" have been exposed as bogus | | | | become increasingly exposed to the glare of public |
| and shown to be essentially invented concepts, labels | | | | scrutiny, its scientific dishonesty and un-workability |
| appended to varieties of human behavior, which can | | | | laid bare. |
| yet be used as justifications for what can only be | | | | Certainly the end is near and one witnesses the |
| described as "brain tinkering" - frequently with | | | | medical profession and even many psychiatrists |
| catastrophic damage done to the patient. | | | | jumping ship or distancing themselves from it and |
| Nevertheless, in many countries, once some | | | | even government agencies are catching on and |
| psychiatrist has labeled you mentally unfit, you can be | | | | starting to investigate the systemic abuse of their |
| regarded as not competent to make decisions about | | | | citizens. |
| your own treatment and your freedom of choice is | | | | Probably the only reason psychiatry is still with us at |
| gone. | | | | all, given the advances in proper medicine and the |
| However, what if you make the decision before | | | | science of nutrition and the arrival on the scene of |
| anyone has any excuse or pretext for taking your | | | | Dianetics that provide safe and incomparably more |
| right to choose away from you, while you are | | | | workable solutions, is the protection afforded this |
| manifestly of sound mind? And what if you were | | | | decrepit and dangerous eighteenth-century dinosaur |
| able to enshrine that decision in a legal document? | | | | by its proxies in government. |
| Under British law at least - the Mental Capacity Act | | | | But while the ailing beast still lives, albeit in its death |
| of 2005 - one can do so: one can make an advance | | | | throes, we would be wise to protect ourselves and |
| decision to refuse a treatment one does not desire | | | | keep a safe distance from its snapping jaws and |
| to receive, should one later become "unfit" to decide. | | | | thrashing tail. |
| This is called a "living will." | | | | |