The following is a Declaration of Principals that was adopted at the Tenth Annual International Conference on Human Rights and Psychiatric oppression, held in Toronto Canada in 1982. The following is an excerpt from 30 principals.
1. We oppose involuntary psychiatric intervention including civil commitment and the administration of psychiatric procedures "treatments" by force of coercion or without informed consent.
4. We oppose forced psychiatric procedures such as drugging, electroshock, psychosurgery, restraints, solitary confinement and "aversive behavior modification".
5. We oppose forced psychiatric procedures because they humiliate, debilitate, injure, incapacitate and kill people.
6. We oppose forced psychiatric procedures because they are at best quackery and permanent harm to the total being of people subjected to them.
And the list goes on and on...........
And #18. We oppose the use of psychiatric terms because they substitute jargon for plain English and are fundamentally stigmatizing, demeaning, unscientific, mystifying and superstitious. Examples:
Plain English and Psychiatric Jargon
Psychiatric inmate........................Mental patient
Psychiatric institution...................Mental hospital/mental health center
Psychiatric system........................Mental health system
Psychiatric procedure.....................Treatment/therapy
Personal or social difficulties in living.....Mental illness
Socially undesirable characteristic or trait..Symptom
Drugs.........................................Medication
Drugging......................................Chemotherapy
Electroshock..................................Electroconvulsive therapy
Anger.........................................Hostility
Enthusiasm....................................Mania
Joy...........................................Euphoria
Fear..........................................Paranoia
Sadness/unhappiness...........................Depression
Vision/spiritual experience...................Hallucination
Non-conformity................................Schizophrenia
Unpopular belief..............................Delusion
No one is free when others are oppressed. Freedom for all. Is another world possible? And what does this have to do with a No Police State? Mind Freedom.

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