begin again: what’s a life lesson you’ve learned recently?
That the mental health care system can be worse for your mental health than helpful. That mental health diagnoses (especially ones that say they require heavy, harmful medication) can really hurt you, and that trying to fix the distress in your life and the issues you’re facing that cause such states of distress, dysfunction, and danger should not be by ascertaining what’s wrong with you as a person, but by fixing the life you are in itself by whatever means that is perpetuated wholly by your own internal sense of the best quality of life.
The mental health care system has hurt me and so many people I know in so many ways, and also helped people, and I still can’t tell if it’d be better or worse without it at all.
The MAIN thing I really have learned recently is that when trying to figure out what’s going on with you, figure out why you’re hurting, using the concept of “abnormal psychology” and figuring out what’s wrong with you can be more helpful than hurtful, and rather figuring out the unique way your brain works through systems of categorisation and also the things that have happened to you to cause reactions that you have is much better. Like I have found more relief figuring out my own brain through astrology than the DSM5 and honestly... they’re about as scientifically based (I have read like the entire DSM5). It’s so scary to not understand when your brain is doing things that don’t make sense and you lose connection to anything that does make sense, but the path to understanding just... isn’t in what we know of science, and it’s definitely not in abnormal psychology, and those paths can hurt you.
Sorry this was so long!!! And I don’t mean to insult people who do take medication or receive any relief from the mental health care system, I just personally put way more faith into systems that ended up scarring me and making me feel more doomed than if I had just... received sincere love and safety, but I couldn’t conceptualise it, because I always felt so unsafe.
