As 'bad' as it is, psychiatry is still better than Scientology because...

1. Psychiatrists don't practice medicine without a license (NOTs 34).

2. Psychiatrists don't use the court systems to harass and silence former patients.

3. Psychiatrists don't dead agent and black op people who speak out against them.

4. Psychoanalysis doesn't cost $500,000 or more.

5. Psychology doesn't promise it can cure homosexuality.

6. Psychiatrists don't dissuade people from getting proper medical attention when they need it.

7. A psychiatrist won't hard-sell you for $5,000 to put up a "Think for yourself" propaganda billboard in Germany.

8. Psychiatry isn't based on a silly science fiction story about murdered Galactic Conferation citizens.

9. Most psychiatrists don't claim to have been run over by a freight locomotive on Venus.

10. You don't have to do 50 hours of "Op Pro by Dup" when you go to a psychiatrist.

11. Psychiatrists don't make you sign a billion year contract.

12. Psychiatrists don't send you to prison camp, where you are made to do slave labor, when your "stats" are "down."

13. Psychiatrists don't call your home 9 times a day wanting to know if you are "confirmed" for an event.

14. Psychiatrists don't make you disconnect from your parents, family, and friends.

15. Psychiatrists don't pressure you into making a pro-psychiatry "personal" web page and then secretly install censoring software from the "Psychiatriac Patients Online" CD.

16. You don't have to max out your credit cards or take out a second mortgage to get psychiatric help.

17. Psychiatrists don't help you in obtaining higher credit limits from your credit card companies so you charge another $8,000 before Thursday at 2.

18. You don't have to clap at a picture of Sigmund Freud and chant "Hip Hip Hooray" three times.

19. Psychiatry honors counselor / patient confidentiality.

20. Psychiatry didn't lie to the state of Utah about its religious affiliations.

-- Sean Ostler A.K.A. Anti-Reg, ATS (Actual Trouble Source) "I got regged one too many times!"

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