It's that time again when the gutless wonders known as psychiatrists are blackmailing the public increase their pay packets. Their actions reek of the criteria of DSM V for Antisocial Personality Disorder, basically psychopathy!
There is a massive disregard amongst psychiatrists that the majority of the public says no to more taxes, and no to their potential pay rise. Psychiatrists have a disregard for the consequences of their pay rise on the public health system. Psychiatrists show no regard for what is right or wrong, and often arbitrarily assigning negative connotations to certain behaviours, and often not understanding why people use illicit drugs and arbitrarily believing that what is written in legislation is right when in the past such drugs were legal. Psychiatrists have a lack of remorse when their prescribed drugs lead to the suicide of people's friends and family members. Psychiatrists rarely outline the side effects of common psychoactive drugs under the guise that telling them about the dangers of such drugs would mean they do not take them. That is fundamentally the MO of a psychiatrist.
So, what is the solution?
Part of the solution is to legalise illicit drugs so the public can make their own decisions, full disclosure of the side effects of illicit drugs can also be re-disclosed in a media campaign to legalise drugs, but frankly many already know the effects. A lot of pharmaceutical drugs are effectively legalised versions of illicit drugs that exhibit the same therapeutic properties. Every psychiatrist knows deep down inside that this is the truth and those who don't are just lying or naives. A lot of the health system could be overhauled, and a lot of the jails could be freed up leading to a positive improvement to people's social lives such as we see in Amsterdam.
Psychiatrists frankly do not need a pay rise, especially not one that puts all of them onto the same pay packet because each of them has varying levels of experience.
If psychiatrists were doing more than just prescribing drugs to someone who has sad thoughts about their social situation, then I would be for a pay increase, but a majority are not doing much more than that. Ask yourself again why depression needs to be medicated with a licensed drug and why people aren't given full access to a spectrum of drugs to treat their condition. It is because Psychiatry is a fraudulent pseudoscience, propped up by a massive lobbyist pharmaceutical industry, that's why.
Ask yourself why a condition like depression requires psychiatrists when winning the lottery solves such social condition. If you meet a depressed person, almost 95% of the time if you gave them $1 million the next day they would miraculously recover. That is part of the fraud. Inaccessibility to other alternative drugs means people need to go to psychiatrists to get their fix. That can be solved with legalisation of drugs. Sometimes it is even more simple than that, I saved many people by providing basically a form of UBI to some of my friends to keep them off the streets. This is why in another post I have mentioned the need for UBI because it solves so many social problems and frankly in my opinion it solves the biggest mental health problem we have in Australia. We need better people in parliament that aren't going to fold to blackmail.
If psychiatrists were only treating the 5%, then yeah, I might be all for the pay rise because we would need less of them to handle such a small case load of patients, but that is not the case. More money to psychiatrists is not money well spent. Plain and simple.
Enough is Enough. Ask yourself why psychiatrists should get a pay rise when you are not getting a pay rise.
Think of this as a "Letter to the Ryan Park"
Ryan Park, are you gutless wonder or are you going to take action against this blackmail? Ultimately you represent the taxpayer and if you let this slide, you get basically bending us all backwards. How about you do the right thing and make a stand!
I see. An armchair psychologist and economist in one. Rare breed, you lot.