The immediately obvious

1. Medication regimes which sedate and numb and cause life-threatening side effects
2. Dysfunctional families and unresolved childhood abuse

The Political

1. The capitalist system which
• Rewards aggressive competition but not sensitive reflective inputs
• Promotes the corrupt Pharmaceutical industries marketing of dangerous drugs as if they were not dangerous
2. The Mental Health Bureaucracy which
• Is organized on the basis of Biopsychiatry
• The Biopsychiatric approach relies on labeling people and medicating them instead of dealing with their immediate problems.
• The problems remain unresolved, but additional problems have been added in the form of medication side effects and callous indifference of these professional “carers” to real life problems
• This has the effect of sapping people’s confidence and trust and negating their ability to fall back on their own inner strengths and resources

Personal problems faced within Education and Employment

1. Isolation which makes ascertaining reality more difficult
2. Drug side effects cause sedation, making concentration and clear thinking difficult
3. Side effects of drugs – cause the very symptoms they are supposed to be curing – like distrust, paranoia, anxiety, weak self-confidence
4. Distrust of authority due to childhood abuses and adult abuses within the psychiatric system

Personal responses to this and conclusion

1. Research the problem
2. Design a website to present this information to mentally ill people so they can face their illness with an informed perspective