Ever feel like re-enacting McMurphy's role in Cuckoo's nest?

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So I was browsing the official national(Swedish) reports on psychiatry and naturally found myself a bit insulted by the use of terms like "disease", the report calling for more intervention in the life's of people as well as imaginary case studies describing overdone negative dysfunctional stereotypes of people with different diagnoses etc etc, and my mind started to wander a bit, I'm imagining sitting there at a psychiatric evaluation where the government would compile a case report on me.

They then start describing my situation etc and presenting me as a case of someone who has "failed" in life due to a "mental disorder" since I don't have a job, and I start talking back to them, accounting for all the times where I've asked the government for something that would benefit(like a school curriculum that would actually be challenging, as well as help finding a decent job when I don't really have much of a social network) me and my career but it being completely uncooperative. I'm telling them I consider their whole politicial and economic system a big failure and the tension between the interviewer and me increases until I simply walk out, telling this person I'm hoping for a green card so I can settle in the US where I won't have to deal with people like him/her and slam the door behind me.

I suppose you have these fantasies from mostly just trying to be nice when you meet the government. Thankfully, I've never had to deal with psychiatry, but I'm starting to think they've established a remote diagnosis on me since they don't seem to pester me as much these days about visiting the unemployment office. I've had a number of encounters with the government in the past from our family turning into welfare case; From me spending my first few years as an adult breaking into systems online and getting convicted of it, and from job projects. All the while throughout the job projects with courses etc, I outperformed everyone else on the tests and passed everything, but never really got any help getting an internship or a job.

OH YEAH!! thank you for starting this thread, fedaykin! I promised myself when I was 13, when my mom was going on about all the tragic mental stuff I might have, and was really depressed aout it, an seeking hel for me, that if I was ever thrown in a looney bin, i would be McMurphy. I didn't know about One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest then, but I still knew what I would do... help the patients in personal, human way rather than a rigid way, help them ight for their rights, encourage them to all escape with me and cure their problems better than the people there could! And of course tons of pranks!

Surprisingly I dont want to be lobotomised...

I would not be stupid like McMurhy... I would have escaped when I had the chance!

Been there, done that, stopped JUST short of buying the full frontal lobotomy...

But, yeah...DAMMIT...DEMAND your right to be TOTALLY ALIVE and insist other "defectives" do too.

You have nothing to lose.

M