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Friends and Families of Psychiatric Survivors of Wisconsin

Psychiatry is a religion.

Knowledge or belief?

It is not a fact, regardless of how much or sincerely we believe it.
 
Wishing it were a fact does not make it one.
 
So it is with the "neurobiological basis of mental illness". There is no evidence to support it. It does not "actually exist".
 
 

When we "know" something, we consider it a fact.
 
Funk & Wagnalls defines a "fact" as, "Something that actually exists or has occurred."
 
If we accept that something exists without tangible evidence, we're accepting it on faith. We don't know it. We believe it.
 
 
 
 

When we accept things on faith, we're not dealing with science anymore. We're dealing with religion.
 
So, then, that would make forced "treatment" (i.e., drugging) laws a violation of a citizen's right to worship according to his conscience.