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Onion vs. Psychiatric Oppression

The humorous satire publication The Onion has challenged human rights violations in the mental health system in many creative fictional ways, that seem all too-true. Here are some examples.

Examples of The Onion satire skewering psychiatric oppression:


- Totally Hot Chick Also Way Psycho:

www.theonion.com/content/node/29357

- FDA Approves Sale Of Prescription Placebo:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39082

- New drug induces love of pharmaceutical companies:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46032

- US is a victim of abuse in its "formative years":

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49608

- Voices in man's head give great tips about 'time management':

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/45582

- Brain chemicals hold the owner hostage:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51124

- God diagnosed with 'bipolar disorder':

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28484

- Testing theater goers for PTSD:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30824

- Children being tested for "youthful tendency disorder":

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28223

You may also find the text on the MFI site.

- Pharmaceutical company calls its new drug "dumb"

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29813

- A debate about whether suicide attempts are a "cry for help":

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28604

- Losers are most likely to be hit by suicide:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29955

- President Bush called "ineffectual and incompetent" in his talks with God:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46938

- Freshman Psych Student Diagnoses Roommate With Bipolar Disorder

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28564


- 73 Percent Of U.S. Livestock Show Signs Of Clinical Depression

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30636


- Alex Rodriguez Placed On Emotionally Disabled List

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52502


- Report: Many Rappers May Suffer From Unrealistically High Self-Images

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38891


Care to thank The Onion for running satire skewering psychiatric oppression?

Here's the contact info:

http://www.theonion.com/content/contact_us


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Adam Voss, psychiatric survivor

After being repeatedly placed in psychiatric institutions, Adam Voss remembered hearing about MindFreedom and decided to hop on a bus to join up. Three and a half days later, traveling the whole length of the USA, Adam arrived in July 2009 at the MindFreedom office in Eugene, where he was warmly welcomed. Adam’s experience with psychiatric coercion began in 2008 when he decided to dance outside the city hall in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. Forcibly taken by police to a psychiatric ward, Adam endured forced psychiatric drugging with neuroleptic or "antipsychotic" drugs, an experience repeated three more times. Having read about the MFI Shield program Adam said, "I realized that by traveling to MindFreedom headquarters I would find the peer support and protection I couldn’t find in the mental health system or even within my own family."