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Everyone gossips forever

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my interactions with psychiatry and mental health systems have felt like if i had someone blaring an airhorn in my ear constantly for 5 hours a day and i was at risk of slowly going deaf. my attempts to stop the person from blowing the airhorn in my ear would be considered irrational and a disease. because the answer is not to stop the air horn. it's just to give in and go deaf because your irrational attachment to preserving your ability to hear things sounds like a problem and a disruption to your life and you should go to a doctor so you stop feeling this strange desire to stop one of your 5 senses that you use every day from being irreversibly damaged

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It should be known as an insult (the "go to therapy get professional help" comments)

It should be known as an insult it should not be "destigmatized" because the only thing "destigmatizing" mental services does is let people pretend they're genuinely concerned about your wellbeing while they insult you.

Because they're not being hurtful they would never be hurtful they're only compassionately reccomending therapy, it would be hurtful of you to reject their noble attempts to help you and you don't want to be mean, right? :)

An insult is infinitely more hurtful and demeaning when it's veiled as genuine concern.

[zmpl]

no cops at pride and dare i say no therapy/psych services advertising their businesses at pride

[zmpl]

there’s also just this tie between psychiatry and queerness that has yet to be broken

on one end of the political spectrum you have conservatives calling gay and trans people “mentally ill” with venom shooting from their saliva, clearly stating that anyone labeled as mentally ill (including queer people) should be locked away forever. they don’t just approve of incarcerating people, they LOVE it.

in the middle you have liberals (aka centrists) who insist that being queer isn’t a mental illness BUT☝️ gender dysphoria is and the treatment is transition. transition is essential for many trans people’s well-being but liberals are SO tied to the psych-medicalization of transness that transition is a medical treatment of an ailment, not an exercise of bodily autonomy. they speak in the most eye-rolling platitudes such as “gender affirming care saves lives” or “using the right pronouns is suicide prevention” that throw chronically suicidal trans people under the bus. when in reality, affirming someone’s gender is basic human decency and not this magical veil of protection against being both trans and Mad.

THEN on the other end of the spectrum you have queer Mad people asserting that they don’t want to have their identities associated with an oppressive system that has a decades long history of pathologizing queerness, and whose voices still have yet to be heard. so we go to pride and are bombarded with dozens of therapy clinics advertising in parade floats or information tables. because pathologizing psychiatry still has a strong hold in queerness, and even many queer people themselves still have yet to realize this.

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no cops at pride and dare i say no therapy/psych services advertising their businesses at pride

[zmpl]

me when i go to a local pride event and see the same hospital that made me sleep on a plastic chair in the communal room of their locked-down facility giving away jolly ranchers and rainbow “you matter” pins

[wheelie-sick]

What antipsychiatrists believe:*

another introductory post to some basic antipsychiatry beliefs in a condensed bullet list for your convenience

you have a right to go to therapy under this system AND we need a different system that doesn't create abuse for the patient AND you have a right to not go to therapy/an alternative ever under any system

you have a right to see a psychiatrist under this system AND we need a different system that doesn't create abuse AND you have a right to never see a psychiatrist or alternative under any system

you have a right to take medication under this system AND we need a different system that doesn't use medication as a tool for abuse AND you have a right to never take any medication under any system for any reason

you have a right to set a recovery goal for yourself and seek to complete it AND we need to stop forcing people to "recover" to any standard AND you have a right to never attempt recovery for any reason

you have a right to seek a diagnosis or define yourself with one under this system AND we need a system that ends unwanted pathologization of psychiatrized traits AND you have a right to never label yourself ever for any reason

you have a right to admit yourself to a psych ward under this system AND we need an end to residential "care" with the power to abuse AND even in a better system you have a right to never enter any residential care

overall one of the primary components of antipsychiatry is and always will be autonomy. if you want to exist within the psychiatric system you have that right.

liking your therapy/psychiatrist/medications/recovery goals/diagnosis/experiences in a psych ward does not mean that you can't be antipsychiatry. you don't have to erase your positive experiences to acknowledge that the system is inherently abusive and must go to be replaced with something better. (I always try to emphasize that the plan in antipsychiatry is not "leave everyone stranded")

autonomy 5ever ✊

*antipsychiatrists are a diverse group of people with diverse opinions. these are generalizations and individual antipsychiatrists may differ on these

**these are oversimplifications of complex and nuanced beliefs. these beliefs (including my own personal beliefs) are not fully represented in a handful of sentences

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The fact that they can do literally anything to you for any reason. They don't even need a reason. You do not get a fair trial you do not get any trial at all. They don't need proof. They don't need evidence. All they need is word of mouth. All they need is an opinion. All they need is a split second judgement of your fate and then they can do anything they want to you and no one will stop them.

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i think people are way too afraid of "undiagnosed mental disorders" now... like everything has to be "caught" and "treated" as soon and as fast as possible which i think has led to the trend of kids ranging from small children to literal toddlers being speculated about/diagnosed with/medicated even, for mental disorders and disabilities way too early. it also leads people (more than they already have) to try to look literally anywhere for symptoms, often finding "signs" in places where they don't really exist because people are so obsessed with "catching it early"

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am i even mentally ill or am i just living in some kind of infinite torture chamber that would make anyone like this

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[fenrichaita]

One major factor that makes the nature of psychiatric treatment intrinsically violent is the fact that the boundaries of the patient is considered an obstacle to treatment. The lack of consent of the patient is considered an obstacle to treatment. These obstacles are abhorred by psychiatry and considered things that much be broken down. If the patient has a disagreement with the treatment, or objects to it, this is considered a symptom and therefore is seen as something not to be validated or respected. Thoughts, behaviors, beliefs; these are all considered symptoms if they are in opposition to treatment and must be broken down. However, compliance with treatment is almost never seen as disordered or symptomatic, even if the patient is fawning or similarly complying to avoid more harm done to them. The fact that only extreme compliance is accepted by psychiatry is inherently violent and conditions people to accept abuse. Isolation and violence are not vectors of healing.

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As someone who is receiving psychiatric care, this is so fucking stupid. I would be dead without mental health care, I've literally tried to kill myself multiple times before figuring this mental health shit out.

Therapist: Let's talk teach you some coping mechanisms.

Psychiatrists: What are your goals for your mental health?

Some asshole online here: ACAB includes mental health workers.

Before anyone says that's not the kind of psychiatric care OP is talking about, that is literally a statement in OP's bio. This person is entirely against mental healthcare, and mental healthcare is just healthcare.

Now, there is nuance to this situation. I'm not saying there's no room to critique mental health care or that all mental health workers are good. But there's no nuance in OP's views, this is ludicrous.

I'm so tired of this shit. I'm not really here to educate though, mostly I just wanted to say if anyone following me agrees with OP, please unfollow.

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Anddddd that is no good. Did not realize OP was completely against mental health at all [this is what one gets for not checking OP blogs].

I too would not be where I am today without it and have been in manh rough places. I'll be unfollowing OP as there are many conversations to be held around mental health facilities, disregarding mental health workers entirely is. Certainly a choice.

Psychiatric care can come in all kinds, but it is insanely stupid and doesn't even make sense logically or scientifically. What. That's the same line of thinking that is against healthcare in general which is. Yeah.

As someone whose life has also been vastly improved by medical health workers. Deleting the plain version of my reblog and replacing it with this one with this knowledge.

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"One major factor that makes the nature of psychiatric treatment intrinsically violent" and you didn't understand this was an antipsychiatry post? This is a post about psychiatric violence. This is a post about how the mental health system is abusive and violent. We cannot have conversations, let alone nuanced ones, about this if everyone's reaction to antipsych takes is to talk about how psychiatry helped them. That's great! Really. But a system that people rely on being abusive means people die. Please just listen to victims of psychiatric abuse.

ACAB includes mental health workers because they have people detained, they use the police to assist in psychiatric violence, exc. Psychiatry and the justice system often interact.

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this is related to my will wood post from the other day where people will ignore someone blatantly criticizing psychiatry and then when they realize the person is antipsych they go "wait you don't actually like psychiatrists after you said you don't like psychiatrists what :("

[waskitty]

i’m so glad i’ve never gotten over anything in my life it makes listening to music so fun

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people are like "if you're unsure/second guessing about posting something then don't post it" and i say bestie i second-guess literally everything

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i love being evil

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thinking abt will wood songs and you'll have some of the songs like. blatantly criticizing psychiatry and its effects and someone will go "oh the song is about how going to therapy SEEMS bad bc you're mentally ill and paranoid haha :)"

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seriously how do you listen to

And think

are we listening to the same song. am i going insane here

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thinking abt will wood songs and you'll have some of the songs like. blatantly criticizing psychiatry and its effects and someone will go "oh the song is about how going to therapy SEEMS bad bc you're mentally ill and paranoid haha :)"

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let me come up with my own words for things and stop morphing everything i say into therapy-speak <3

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[ishimarukiyotaka]

I think the idea that mental health conditions are entirely sociological or entirely biological are both bunk. Even in a utopian society some people would experience obsessions, hallucinations, delusions, depression, anxiety, etc . BUT to suggest there is a specific biomarker and these conditions can be entirely resolved by a physiological approach is also very wrong and can cause harm via the institution of psychiatry