'Mad Pride' Activists Say They're Unique, Not Sick

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Mad Pride Activists Say They Are 'Anti-Bullying,' Not Anti-Medication
But David Oaks, a prominent Mad Pride activist and a leader of the advocacy organization MindFreedom International, agreed with others in the Mad Pride movement who feel stereotyping the mentally ill is a serious mistake.
"The vast majority of people with psychiatric diagnoses," Oaks said, "including serious psychiatric diagnoses like schizophrenia and psychosis and bipolar -- we're law-abiding, we're peaceful."

Oaks said MindFreedom International seeks to work for social change in the mental health system. He stresses that Mad Pride is not anti-medication, but rather it is anti-bullying, and he asserts that it should be a patient's choice whether or not to accept medication.

"Most of our members have experienced things like forced drugging," Oaks said. "We are people who have experienced human rights abuses in the mental health system."

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 It was only a matter of time before being insane became a "civil right".

[DumbAss Tanker]

But then again, they're nuts, so why should we believe they know what they're talking about?

 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

"Most of our members have experienced things like forced drugging," Oaks said.

Any chance that might have someting to do with the fact that by definition the insane are incapable of making their own rational decisions?

[JohnnyReb]

Sounds like a perfect match for the UGP.