The Chaos of Psychiatric Medicine in Japan (translated Documentary)
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"They are dangerous creatures, so treating them with brute force is a last resort." Misdiagnosis, over-medication, abuse of physical restraint, forced hospitalization... Shocking mental medical chaos. In Japan, 1 in 30 people are receiving treatment for mental illness, but the state of mental health care is shocking. Children who are hospitalized because they cannot adapt to family or school life are tied up and receive so-called "restraint treatment"; office workers who take prescription drugs due to extreme social anxiety develop kleptomania as a side effect of anti-anxiety drugs and are imprisoned; wives who call the police for domestic violence are treated as "mentally insane" because their husbands lie about "suicide attempts"... More than 180,000 people are sent to compulsory psychiatric hospitalization every year, and at least 10,000 people have their hands, feet and bodies restrained every day in the name of the law. A society that does not think this is an abnormal phenomenon and still acquiesces to its continued occurrence is abnormal.
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