I’m generally anti-psychiatry. Diagnosis not really based in hard science, and often used to subdue whose voice we don’t want to hear. There’s better ways of maintaining and regaining one’s mental health, I believe.
It’s strange that the average leftie can be anti-establishment, anti-police, anti-capitalism, anti-machismo … but mention anti-psychiatry to them and get downvoted to hell. Never made much sense to me.
It’s strange that the average leftie can be anti-establishment, anti-police, anti-capitalism, anti-machismo … but mention anti-psychiatry to them and get downvoted to hell. Never made much sense to me.
Respectfully, it’s because I believe that you’re making a category error. Establishment, police, capitalism, and machismo are hierarchies. In my view, psychiatry is a tool, which is often used as a tool of oppression, but which can and often is similarly used as a tool of liberation. Psychiatry is not, in my view, a hierarchy itself.
How is psychiatry not a hierarchy? You feel unwell, but instead of taking the time you need to figure out why you feel so, you go to a professional, they diagnose you with a disorder. It’s usually a made up thing like ‘Can’t-pay-attention-disorder’ or ‘Doesn’t-obey-authority-disorder’ or ‘Is-really-sad-syndrome’ - just more fancy sounding to fool the people who desperately want to believe that this shit is science. Then they medicate you with one of their experimental substances and try to make you functional for work, war or procreation again.
Mind you - I’m not against self-reflection and maintaining a language to speak with others about feelings, emotions, relations. I’m all for supporting one another through times of intense emotions. But I won’t give away the authority over my inner world of feeling to a professional working by the logic of a capitalist state I otherwise reject and let my unwellness about the rotten state of the world be dismissed as a disorder that is just happening in my own head.
I’m generally anti-psychiatry. Diagnosis not really based in hard science, and often used to subdue whose voice we don’t want to hear. There’s better ways of maintaining and regaining one’s mental health, I believe.
It’s strange that the average leftie can be anti-establishment, anti-police, anti-capitalism, anti-machismo … but mention anti-psychiatry to them and get downvoted to hell. Never made much sense to me.
Respectfully, it’s because I believe that you’re making a category error. Establishment, police, capitalism, and machismo are hierarchies. In my view, psychiatry is a tool, which is often used as a tool of oppression, but which can and often is similarly used as a tool of liberation. Psychiatry is not, in my view, a hierarchy itself.
How is psychiatry not a hierarchy? You feel unwell, but instead of taking the time you need to figure out why you feel so, you go to a professional, they diagnose you with a disorder. It’s usually a made up thing like ‘Can’t-pay-attention-disorder’ or ‘Doesn’t-obey-authority-disorder’ or ‘Is-really-sad-syndrome’ - just more fancy sounding to fool the people who desperately want to believe that this shit is science. Then they medicate you with one of their experimental substances and try to make you functional for work, war or procreation again.
Mind you - I’m not against self-reflection and maintaining a language to speak with others about feelings, emotions, relations. I’m all for supporting one another through times of intense emotions. But I won’t give away the authority over my inner world of feeling to a professional working by the logic of a capitalist state I otherwise reject and let my unwellness about the rotten state of the world be dismissed as a disorder that is just happening in my own head.