You mean "tongue-in-cheek".
Dude, people have TONS of freedom "to be different" without being locked up in most developed countries. I mean, even if the mental hospitals where you are a bit stricter, you live in Canada, which by and large is one of the most liberal countries in the world, in SOME ways more liberal than the U.S. If you lived in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan or certain Muslim/Middle Eastern Countries, Somalia or 3rd world countries where they execute people for drugs like The Phillipines or Malaysia I'd see where you are coming from, but I really can't take seriously the idea that there isn't a lot of freedom "to be different" in a country as liberal as Canada by and large.
Look at the world we live in where "VERY thankfully" it is now more accepted than ever to be gay or bi, transsexuality is beginning to become accepted, people get facial tats and multiple piercings all over their body and still SOMETIMES manage to get jobs lol, weed is close to being legalized in many states and countries including your own, there is getting to be more racial equality than before (though there's still TONS of racism of course), and I have known LOTS AND LOTS of VERY wacky people in different ways who have never been locked up in mental institutions.
I don't think people are being locked up for being "abnormal" in many instances in well developed countries like Canada, the U.S., the U.K., France, The Netherlands, etc. The kinds of behaviors that get people locked up in those countries are usually going to be far outside of the realm of acceptable behavior in society and being a danger to oneself or others.
You don't really say EXACTLY what you have done to be admitted though, so it leaves me wondering and thinking that maybe you are claiming that all you did was act a little "different" and were locked up for it, which just doesn't sound realistic, sorry...
Yes, I can see that in CERTAIN situations there is a power-imbalance, although I think that it is MUCH worse where you live than where I do and that involuntary admittance for long periods of time is still generally not the norm in most developed countries, and that the kind of very bleak situation where there is literally some kind of power struggle between psychiatrist and patient is not usually what happens. If it was then psychiatry would have a hard time surviving at all because there would be so many law suits by patients and so much bad publicity that few people would go to see psychiatrists at all.
Your situation may not be as uncommon as I think, especially where you live, but I don't think it is as common as you think overall, and I don't think seeing the situation as being a war between patients and doctors benefits anyone, and no offense, but I think that you MIGHT be in a bit of denial about your own issues being a little bit worse than you think. If that is NOT true, then I apologize profusely, but there's something about the way you talk that sounds like you might be in denial.
You STILL have not clarified whether or not you think mental illness does in fact exist or if you think it is only a myth, and whether or not you think that even with all of its' flaws, that we are better off having psychiatry than not having it, and whether or not you think that at least SOMETIMES medications help for mental illness.
I have asked you these questions like 3 times but you still haven't answered.
Why not?
