psychiatry is one of the worst things ever happened to humans.
I put it a little differently. We need psychiatry, just not psychiatry mired in irrationality, unscientific practices, bias, dogma and cultish behaviour.
The worst thing to happen to psychiatry was Freud.
Psychiatry did have a lot to answer for aside from Freudian nonsense, with insane asylums torturing people with indifference to suffering until it started to be exposed. Exposing the lies, the bias, the failures, the intrinsic inhumanity ... you fight such evil with truth. Not just quietly in the shadows truth, but in the full light of day. They need to be exposed, then exposed again, then know that unless they change they will face perpetual challenge. Anyone covering for them needs to be exposed too. However none of this is easy.
Atrocities included very dangerous therapies, therapies that severely damaged the brain and made patients docile (such as lobotomy), removal of organs because they were the problem, and so on. While the blatant atrocities ceased half a century ago, more subtle atrocities are underway.
If farmers did these things to their animals the animal rights movement would be after them, though considered troublemakers by the establishment. We are trying to fight these atrocities, and working for human rights, but not enough people are involved.
I saw PACE as the means to do that, the failures are obvious if you look, which is why I started to write a book on it some years ago. We need to expose the charlatanry that is going on. Medicine needs to wake up and fix its own problems, and especially psychiatry, but if this does not happen they may find their institutions and power eroded and even dismantled. They are, in my view, on a long path to an end of the medical profession as we know it.
As for putting down animals with badly understood illnesses, how many of us are treated, especially in the UK, is in line with that idea. Its broader than just ME though. The last several years saw a jump in the death numbers for disabled of about 100,000. This is in total, as the figure is about 30,000 per year. That is an increase over the normal death rate.