“There is no evidence that what is accepted every second of every day by society — so-called ‘mental illness’ — exists. Yet those who get these pseudo-diagnoses have not got the legal right to decide for themselves. As Hebriana said, more than 30 years ago, “we might as well be dead”!
Without any medical evidence, and yet reinforced with the strong arm of legal fiction, we continue to be deprived of our humanity. As the late and great professor Thomas Szasz said,
“Classifying persons as mental patients and creating legal fictions involving human beings leads to the same results: The person, concealed behind a mask, is rendered less than fully human or even completely non human.””
