You can be locked up, drugged, shocked, lobotomized. No rights to an attorney, not even a one phone call. I really believe the whole psychiatric industry is a fraud. Leon Eisenberg admitted ADHD being fake when he died.
3,000 people a month die because of psychiatry. We don't ever hear about these victims. There was a court case where a psychiatrist testified and was questioned about what tests he ran on the person he was claiming had a chemical imbalance. He was questioned what kind of tests he did and he said he watched him for 2 hours. No actual medical tests. It's very subjective and not scientific in most cases.
Are there horrible people practicing? Sure, but that is society at large. Most of the folks helping others want to help. Like everything else, we hear these stories because they are outliers. Some things Are subjective because we don't have the medical tests yet and we have to go by what the patient is willing to describe... but yet, if you give the wrong sort of medicine, it reacts badly. This still happens in "regular" medicine as well when we don't have proper diagnostic tools available. When we know more and have definitive tests widely available, we can do these things you describe.
This world is a really screwed up place. Some people took their kids to like 3 different places just to get meds to zombify them so they don't have to be parrents and actually watch their kids. Or some put their kids in mental hospitals to try and scare them. It just really makes me sad and I feel like they're doing more harm than good. At least some of the places locally I know of got a bad rating like average of 2-3 stars. Some of this stuff is just too close to home.
Citation?
The medicines they prescribe kills more than heroin. And that's not even counting the shock theory. Yes, they still do that... Here's a video I found a while back on the modern day version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L2-B-aluCE
It sucks people on HN down votes people for being the messenger of bad news. and full disclaimer, I am not affiliated with any of these mentioned sites or organizations. I just always had a bad feeling about psychiatry and these people confirm how bad they really are.
There's a group called Citizens Commission on Human Rights that made documentaries on the subject which are really convincing. Seen their commercial one day on TV, and spent a night watching some of their material.
There's a clip somewhere on YouTube where someone went to like 5 different psychiatrists but was told all different things. Then they also had a mother tell her story about how a psychiatrist killed her son Matthew.
I already had a bad view of the industry, but after watching their content it really reinforced my feelings towards them.
Edit: Found the video I was talking about it. http://www.cchr.org/videos.html The first one on that page, It's about a hour but I think it does a great job at exposing psychiatry. I think everyone including parrents should watch this before visiting a psychiatrist