Repeated cases of abuse in psychiatric hospitals:

Repeated cases of abuse in psychiatric hospitals: What is the state of psychiatric care?

Japanese people have the image of "mental illness" as "violent" or "screaming incomprehensible things".

"Mental confusion = the daily life of a mentally ill person" Do you think they suddenly start screaming?

However, in reality, there are various reasons, but the end result is

"people who stopped working, fled from society, and became isolated".

Below, I will list three reasons why people are hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals and why psychiatry still exists as a medical treatment, so I will look at them in order.

① No one has abnormal brain function (mentally ill patients with medically present illnesses)

People who are actually hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals are people who caused family troubles at a young age, got no help from anyone, became a police matter, and were irresponsibly diagnosed as "well, let's put them in a psychiatric hospital" as a patient with an incurable disease that will never be cured, and they spend more than 10 years in a psychiatric hospital.

(For an example, please watch the video below)

"Forced removal" and "forced hospitalization" under the pretense of supporting hikikomori are illegal - Hikikomori-ya and psychiatric hospitals ordered to pay compensation - #hikikomori #hikikomoriya #medicalprotectionhospitalization #psychiatrichospital

Since it is an incurable disease, hospitals are just continuing the current treatment methods as if it cannot be cured.

Because they are excluded from society at a young age and have not been trained in social skills such as working or building relationships, their abilities and motivation decline, and they become unable to participate in society, leading to the spread of "medical illness" and "social hospitalization," which are caused by medical care and cause anxiety.

②The reality of profitable psychiatric hospital management through the psychiatric special exemption system

In the 1950s, Taro Takemi created a law called the Japan Medical Finance Corporation, which allows hospitals to open at low interest rates in order to increase the number of psychiatric hospitals.

Furthermore, he created a system called the psychiatric special exemption, which allows psychiatric hospitals to pay medical fees even if they have few staff, making it more profitable for them to operate.

Around this time, overseas, people started saying that "psychiatric care is simply a violation of human rights," and there was a growing movement to "eliminate psychiatric hospitals from society, as psychiatric hospitals are unnecessary."

Japanese medicine went against the global trend and increased the number of psychiatric hospitals.

3. Culture of covering up dirty things (politicians' purpose to hide the stain of defeat)

The background to this was the economic and social anxiety in Japan after the defeat in World War II, and the current situation in which returning soldiers had become potential criminals due to drug addiction, alcohol addiction, and PTSD from the war, in the form of hospitalization guarantees.

For these three reasons, society needed to accept people who were not ill, created by the defeat after the war, as potential criminals and homeless people who disrupt public order.

However, detaining and punishing potential criminals is a "human rights violation."

Therefore, politicians came up with the idea of ​​preventive detention, where psychiatrists give non-existent mental illness names and detain people in isolation for life under the pretext of treatment.

This is social defense through "backup prisons."

In the 1950s, a system of receiving people that would not be criticized for the political failure of World War II began to take shape after the war.

And private psychiatric hospital managers who jumped on the bandwagon of this system realized that they could build up huge assets through a system where they could get huge medical fees by pretending to treat patients.

Taro Takemi, Honorary Chairman of the Japan Medical Association, said, "Psychiatric hospital management is livestock farming." In other words, he is revealing that "psychiatric care is not medical care."

Before the war, there were fewer than 10,000 psychiatric hospitals in Japan.

This is not because there was only a system of private confinement, known as a zashikiro system, that caused psychiatric care in Japan to lag behind.

Even "eccentrics" and "village ostracism" were taken care of by society, assigned jobs, and provided a living security, so "social inclusion" was practiced.

In other words, psychiatry is not originally a disease, so it is not a "subject of treatment," but a "problem caused by society, such as politics and culture," and is therefore a field that politics and welfare are responsible for.

Therefore, mental illness is not an incurable disease with an unknown cause.

Because it is not a disease in the first place.

The reason why abuse does not disappear in the medical field is because medical staff feel helpless and stressed because they have to take care of the lives of people who are not sick and are not the target of treatment, and because it is a "short-handed job"

and because of the "frustration on the part of the patient" who will suffer human rights violations until they die.

This is the same as the relationship between a "guard and a prisoner".

(Suspect abuse in a holding cell at Okazaki Police Station)

Man dies in holding cell, multiple officers may have assaulted him, Okazaki Police Station, Aichi

In order to solve these social problems, society needs to change to a normal state.

What kind of society is desirable for humans?

The answer is in the RAPT blog.

"RAPT Paid Article 803 (January 6, 2023) Humans were created in the image of God, so it is easy, natural, and happy to live like God. https://rapt-neo.com/?p=59251』

I sincerely hope that we can one day live in a society free of these unfairness and inequalities.