Hate Mail
Started by Sushirolls
This mailer was the front organization "citizen community health rights(?)" or something ridiculous like that, to my office address. Per usual, lightening rod against ECT.
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There is some quantity of morbidity, mortality, and lost years of disability that is rightly laid at the feet of the anti-ECT crowd.
It boils my blood.
It boils my blood.
View it as a badge of honor, you were already on their list of enemies from day 1 of being a psychiatrist but you've been elevated to special status. I think you get a mana bar and your own boss music if they ever see you in the wild
I'm not sure it's Andrew Wakefield bad, but it's awfully close. There is a similar but slightly less intense group that does that same thing to anyone prescribed lithium. They seem to scan any post on reddit and harass doctors prescribing this to save peoples' lives.
As I understand it and I'm happy to be corrected, Scientologists don't have a great deal of formal beliefs on medicine outside the very narrow domain of psychiatry, at least in the lower (public) levels. Maybe they would recommend some auditing for the seizures, but I don't think they'd oppose the ECT for them.
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From what I understand about scientologists, they are under all circumstances opposed to ECT. In addition, they all sign contracts with their churches (?) that state they are against psychiatry in all forms.
Their stance is that ECT is torture. They do not believe in any application for it.
Their stance is that ECT is torture. They do not believe in any application for it.
*Final Fantasy music starts playing*
Got another mailing today. This time a box. Haven't opened it yet.
I don’t feel that Scientologists or the Antipsychiatry types who back them have the sharpest intellects, and this includes the doctors.
It appears to be most evident online. Here we have a so called “Critical Psychiatrist” complaining about being associated with Antipsychiatry.
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And here we have someone pointing out that the same doctor was proud to embrace the label in 2022.
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With that lack of fortitude, it’s no wonder they haven’t progressed beyond the fringes. It’s also reassuring that it’s not just other doctors but patients who are calling out these people.
It appears to be most evident online. Here we have a so called “Critical Psychiatrist” complaining about being associated with Antipsychiatry.
x.com
x.com
And here we have someone pointing out that the same doctor was proud to embrace the label in 2022.
x.com
x.com
With that lack of fortitude, it’s no wonder they haven’t progressed beyond the fringes. It’s also reassuring that it’s not just other doctors but patients who are calling out these people.
What was in the box? I'd be too afraid of a bomb or something crazy if I got a package of hate mail.
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Yeah, part of me is hesitant to open out of paranoia.
Part of me wants to collect this stuff for possible lawsuit.
Part of me wants to tack up in future barn where the larger manure piles are for the symbolism. But manure is actually gold for farms so, most likely straight to trash.
Or I might take it to the range and use for target practice.
Part of me wants to collect this stuff for possible lawsuit.
Part of me wants to tack up in future barn where the larger manure piles are for the symbolism. But manure is actually gold for farms so, most likely straight to trash.
Or I might take it to the range and use for target practice.
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They aren't just anti ECT, but anti psychiatry.
Looks like I've been initiated. Found the box in my mailbox today. Didn't see it in anyone else's mailbox other than the addictions clinic, so wondering what I did to earn this honor.
You are a psychiatrist. That's it.
I’m one of 30-50 at my institution. Just not sure why I got it but none of the others, especially since
there are 7-8 of us that do ECT. Showed it to our consult team. We may make a movie night out of it, lol.
Take a drink every time something non-evidence based or outdated information is mentioned.
That'll induce alcohol poisoning.
