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Local Mental Institutions and Psychiatric Homes in Gauteng

Psychiatric hospitals, mental health clinics and mental institutions in Gauteng are facilities that specialize in using harmful treatments to "correct" mental disorders.

Assessments, Evaluations and Tests in Mental Hospitals in Gauteng

Despite the huge funding of government psychiatric hospitals in Gauteng using taxpayer's money; and massive health insurance fees paid out to private psychiatric homes in Gauteng for mental patients, just how safe and effective are psychiatric hospital treatments in the province?

Gauteng Psychiatric Hospital Mental Health Services and Treatments

In mental health facilities and psychiatric hospitals in Gauteng there is no mental healing. Psychiatric disorders are usually masked with the prescription of powerful mind-altering medications or invasive mental health procedures that may alleviate "symptoms" but they don't address the real cause.

In a 2002 survey of medical doctors, when asked to distinguish between a "mental disorder" and physical illness, 65% of non-psychiatric physicians said that physical examinations and clinical diagnostic testing should be employed to first rule out physical problems.

Psychiatric Treatments Used in Mental Institutions in Gauteng

With heavy government funding and health insurance payouts, local government and private psychiatric hospitals in Gauteng province are able to rake in huge sums of money for psychiatric treatments that effectively don't work. Regardless of patient status; whether an inpatient, outpatient or wanting emergency mental hospital treatment, the basis of any psychiatric treatment is the same - to mask the symptoms only and not cure mental illness. Psychiatric services and treatments used in mental institutions in Gauteng use force to overwhelm a patient's problems. These treatments suppress symptoms, they don't cure. Here are some hospital treatments used for psychiatric disorders:

• ADHD/ADD Treatments in Gauteng Psychiatric Clinics

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are usually treated in clinics with psychiatric drugs that have harmful side-effects. See more on ADHD/ADD.

• Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in Gauteng Psychiatric Hospitals

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - shooting up to 460 volts of electricity through a patient's brain is based on the theory that it "resets" the brain but has never been scientifically proven. See more on ECT treatment.

• Psychosurgery for Mental Health Disorders

Psychosurgery treatment such as the lobotomy is cutting-up and removing pieces of a patient's brain to "treat" mental disorders, but the results are the same - brain damage. See more on Psychosurgery.

Deep Brain Stimulation involves threading wires through the skull and into the brain. Psychiatric hospitals are experimenting with these on the "mentally" ill. See more on Deep Brain Stimulation.

Schizophrenia is generally treated with antipsychotics despite their proven risks and despite studies that show that when patients stop taking these drugs, they improve. See more on Schizophrenia.

Bipolar Disorder is treated with harmful mood stabilizer drugs to "balance" a chemical imbalance in the brain. There is no physical scientific test to prove a chemical imbalance. See more on "brain-chemical imbalance".

Today, a psychiatric clinic diagnosis almost always results in the prescription of a psychiatric drug. But are these drugs the "miracle pill" that hospital psychiatrists say they are? Actually, no. These drugs come with a host of horrific and sometimes permanent side effects. See more on psychiatric drug side effects.

Ironically, psychiatric rehab centres in Gauteng treat alcohol and drug addiction with substitute medications and drugs that can be just as addictive and more so.

Dementia is treated with powerful mind-altering drugs as well as electroshock "treatment" that sadly, cause premature and unnecessary deaths in geriatric patients. See more on dementia treatments.