YOU CANNOT KILL US IN ANY WAY THAT MATTERS

[2pen2wildfire]

parents are allowed to straight-up torture their kids with zero consequences. they can withhold food and water, lock you out of shelter, confiscate your belongings, bar you from human contact, attack and harm you and exert complete control over your physical appearance. and this is just the norm. if you speak out against it you're seen as a delinquent or a predator. even otherwise progressive people get uncomfortable with the idea of dismantling the nuclear family unit because they still see it as the best way to keep kids safe when that simply couldn't be further from the truth. it's evil.

[this-is-anti-psych]

“the difficulty of defining abuse within a context where certain coercive measures are legally permitted”

Aka where it would be clearly abuse in any other context, but psych wards are legally allowed to just do that shit.

This is why legality is not morality.

100%!!!! it might be (unfortunately) legal, but that doesnt negate the fact that psychiatric abuse is real and present in every institution!

It just shows how much mentally ill people are treated as subhuman.

[constantlycantankerous]

TW: SA

Tma/tme needs an early retirement because every last one of us is effected by transmisogyny.

Am I a trans woman? No.

Am I transfemme? No.

Did I spend all of highschool surrounded by sexual comments, rape threats, groping, unsolicited dick pics, and other such forms of harassment? Yes.

This all happened because I was transneutral and as a result, presented more feminine than the dudes at the school. They saw I was still viewed as a man and saw me as an acceptable target compared to cis women. They used me as an outlet for their misogyny because I was trans.

Trans men undeniably face much worse threats to their safety everyday, and you’re going to tell me constant rapes and murders that happen because they are TRANS and are viewed by most people as WOMEN *isn’t* transmisogyny?

Trans women face transmisogyny because they aren’t cis men, trans men face transmisogyny because they aren’t cis men, intersex and nonbinary people face transmisogyny because we aren’t cis men.

We ALL face transmisogyny because *none* of us are cis men.

[solarprominence]

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

[autism-thoughts]

[i-suggest-psych-abolition]

"you need a different therapist" so close ! I have a suggestion actually

[stoneantler]

Getting really tired of how all the anti porn censorship posts going around are like, "I don't like porn but I will defend it" or "it was bad for me to see porn young but it's better than the alternative." I like porn. I want to see porn. I was not damaged by seeing porn as a young person. Porn and erotica are valid and fun vehicles for artistic expression and completely normal expressions of human sexuality. We gain nothing by being squeamish in our support of porn, erotica, and nsfw content.

[zmpl]

therapy is absolutely useless for me because so much of my suffering comes from things out of my control that greatly affect my life, such as capitalism making it impossible for me to imagine a future where i can be comfortable and afford the things i need for survival, and therapists will hear this and go “hmmm have you considered focusing on what you can control instead? let’s have you notice 5 things you can see, 4 things you can touch…” like wow genius advice, ignoring the problem isn’t going to make it any less impactful and in my face 24/7. but yeah i’ll keep spending $100 a week for someone in a position of authority to essentially tell me “just don’t think about that” and give me skills that serve to pacify me temporarily instead of actually make my life more livable

[madgirlramblings]

We should be able to talk about suicide/suicidal thoughts online without being flagged or reported or censored, because pretending those feelings aren’t there doesn’t make life easier for anyone.

[marcymagnolia]

a therapist is just some guy who went to gaslighting school to put undesirables in basically jail. rely on me, creepy knife stalker girl, i can also gaslight you and keep you locked up but unlike a therapist i also love you

[tenderlystrangesymbol]

its crazy that so many leftist or progressive people genuinely believe "if you're mentally ill you need therapy because your hurting all the people who love you by just being mentally ill"

i wish this wasn't a core belief i see in huge swaths of people online. we shouldn't be spreading the belief that just because you're mentally ill you're hurting yourself and everyone and everything around you. especially when you're just chilling and being alive.

[psych-abolition]

We need to take this one step further and abolish the concept of "mental illness."

People should be allowed to have struggles, issues, and quirks without being considered literally sick in the head. People should be allowed to deviate from the norm without being considered to have biological brain diseases.

These "illnesses" can't be proven to exist on any physical level. Psychs demand blind faith in the psychiatric system despite the complete lack of any evidence to back up their pseudoscience.

They decide who's "broken" and needs "fixing." A clear and obvious mirror to religious authorities deciding who's "sinned" and needs to "repent/be saved."

The idea that anyone who's been psychiatrized is obligated to play their games is insulting and dehumanizing. We should get to decide what "healing" looks like, or if there's even anything to "heal" from in the first place.

The psychiatric system as a whole is a tool of the christofascist police state. The propaganda that "everyone needs therapy" is meant to enforce social control.

[interspadias]

"misandry by itself is not a systemic format of oppression and someone being wary of men is not always some personal affront or deep-rooted problem with non-men" and "misandry can be/often is combined with forms of systemic bigotry to justify and downplay the oppression of disenfranchised men and masc-aligned/identifying people, implying that by virtue of 'being men' their privileges will always outweigh the struggles of race, disability, transness, intersex variation, queer sexuality, etc that put them in very real danger and silences their voices" are two statements that can and should coexist

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

People are so weird about suicide. To me suicidal ideation is not some dramatic life-shattering tragedy, it's literally just another boring Tuesday. Saying "Don't joke about suicide, you will make it worse!" to me is like saying "Don't joke about how annoying it is to wait in line at the grocery store, you will make the line even longer!", like, what? Obviously nobody has to like suicide jokes, that's a boundary I will never ask a person to explain. But also. Consider that the reason you're trying to police my thoughts and speech is because acknowledging the existence of chronically suicidal people (and societal forces that creates them in the first place) makes you so uncomfortable that you just have to force them into conformity and fake performance of "good mental health" under the guise of concern.

Yeah for a lot of people suicidal thoughts just aren't the scary emergency people want them to be, and insisting that these people need to censor themselves everywhere forever for other people's comfort is... Not great.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"Are you saying we should just allow people to have bad and scary thoughts and feelings??? And talk about them openly??" Yes. Yes I am. Your need to forcibly correct other people's thoughts and feelings into something more palatable and punishing them if they refuse to hide them is FAR more toxic than the hypothetical suicide joke you're getting mad about

[thedreadvampy]

You cannot have abolitionism without engaging with anti-psych because

a) psychiatric inpatient institutions are frequently used parallel with prisons and for the same purpose

b) punitive justice and psychiatry are two outflows of the same theoretical framework. The Criminal and The Mad are two abstractions used to identify a type of person who is hopelessly irrational and/or evil and can only be dealt with by aggressive removal from society

c) any meaningful rehabilitative or transformative process that involves engaging with disordered or delusional thoughts rests on compassionate, continuous care and support which, spoiler alert, the current psychiatric institution Does Not Provide

d) any restorative or reparative justice requires us to get way better at responding to the outcomes of trauma, which at this stage are figuratively and often literally criminalised through madness

e) criminality and psychiatry both use the same systems of punishment, institutionalisation and isolation which personalise the problem (we have to get the Scary Bad People dealt with) and worsen it (removing a person from society, restricting access to basic needs, and treating them as an unperson doesn't help them cultivate trust and prosocial behaviour)

like it's not just that involuntary psychiatric holds are a form of imprisonment (which they are) and that if you oppose one form of imprisonment you oppose them all (you should)

but like. Criminality and Madness are constructed side by side as complementary parts of the carceral machine. Having an abolitionism that doesn't engage with Mad theory and anti-psych activism is as flat. shallow, ahistorical and useless as an abolitionism that doesn't engage with race, class or slave labour.

They're the same thing. Not things that are shaped similarly. Madness as a construction is intimately linked with the development of contemporary ideas about criminality and criminal justice. The history of psychiatry is the history of criminology, even when it doesn't relate to people who've been accused of actual crimes.

[antimoralism]

the amount of self hatred you have to have to make “being in remission for a personality disorder” your entire personality and online presence...

“my disgusting vile personality used to be so wicked and sinister that it could only be described as a disorder of the mind. luckily im all better now and im here to teach you unhealed annoying unlovable bitches how to be more like me and less like yourself” do you not hear yourselves

[irena-dubrovnaa]

i really really really hate psych nurses who think it's funny and goofy that their suicide watch patients are in severe emotional (and often physical) distress over being stripped of their autonomy and basic human right to privacy. yeah its sooooooo hilarious that you have to watch your patients take a shit and shower and they arent allowed to sleep with the door closed im sure being publicly humiliated makes them less suicidal, youre such a good person for putting up with those freaks all day