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.
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.