@Former-Member Yes, people certainly have had awful experiences in the mental health system - some have lost their lives, others their sanity, others have suffered ongoing medical issues, damage to their health from medication and 'treatments', financial burdens beyond their ability to pay, others suffer such utter despair in their desperate attempts to find someone with sufficient understanding and expertise to help them that they are rendered suicidal. Do you feel that simply acknowledging that fact is sufficient? Mere platitudes?
Do you have unresolved mental health issues which are deteriorating while being treated with ongoing - usually increasing or ever-changing - medication, ECT, expensive consultations, lack of compassion and understanding - being treated as a mere money spinner because those who are supposed to have oversight of the health system - especially the mental health system - simply go through the motions, because the system is so broken they lack the insight and expertise to understand its vast failures sufficiently to fix it? Are you treated with indifference in your despair, are you locked in to the system, lost in the system - while you hear some say that some people are doing their best to help the people they are treating. Or are you book learned and experience and insight poor?
You say you would hope that Dr. Niall McLaren is a good example of one of these professionals. I would hope that you take the time to read some of his articles and watch some of the youtube videos of Dr. Paula Caplan. You will learn that there is so much wrong in the system that it is criminal that there are those who can turn a blind eye to it.
You say that some "have integrity, do their best, try to help people with MH issues and make positive impact on those that they are treating".
How very INADEQUATE! How very inadequate that it is so FEW!
