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Local Mental Institutions in KwaZulu-Natal

Mental institutions, mental health clinics and psychiatric hospitals in KZN are facilities that specialise in using harmful treatments to "correct" mental health disorders.

Assessments, Evaluations and Tests in Mental Hospitals in KZN

Despite the tremendous amount of funds poured into government psychiatric hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal, using taxpayer's money, and huge health insurance payouts to private psychiatric hospitals in KZN for treatment of mental patients, just how safe and effective are mental hospital treatments in the province?

KwaZulu-Natal Psychiatric Hospital Services and Treatments

In mental health facilities and psychiatric hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal there is no mental healing. Mental disorders are usually masked with powerful mind-altering medications and brutal invasive mental health treatments and 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 used to first rule out physical problems.

Psychiatric Therapies and Treatments Used in Mental Institutions in KwaZulu-Natal

Receiving heavy government funds and health insurance payouts, local private and government psychiatric hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal province are able to rake in massive amounts of money for mental health treatments that effectively don't work. Regardless of patient status; whether needing emergency psychiatric treatment, an inpatient or outpatient at a psychiatric clinic in KZN, the basis of any mental treatment is the same - masking the symptoms only and not to cure mental illness. Psychiatric services and treatments used in mental institutions in KwaZulu-Natal use force to overwhelm a patient's problems. These treatments suppress the symptoms of mental upset, they don't cure. The following are mental treatments and services can you expect in a hospital, ward, clinic, or home:

• ADHD/ADD Treatments in KwaZulu-Natal
  

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

• Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in KwaZulu-Natal
  

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

• Psychosurgery to Treat Mental Disorders

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

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) involves passing wires through the skull into the brain. Psychiatric institutions are experimenting with these on "mentally" ill patients. See more on Deep Brain Stimulation.

Schizophrenia is generally treated with antipsychotics despite their proven risks and despite studies showing patient improvement when they stop taking these drugs. See more on Schizophrenia.

Bipolar Disorder is treated with dangerous mood stabilizer drugs to "balance" a chemical imbalance in the brain. No physical scientific test can prove this chemical imbalance. See more on "brain-chemical imbalance".

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

Ironically, psychiatric rehabilitation centres in KwaZulu-Natal 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 elderly patients. Read more on dementia treatments.