Sep 11, 2024
"Queer platonic partner? Don't you mean 'friend'?" We've become the same organism, Carol.
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"Queer platonic partner? Don't you mean 'friend'?" We've become the same organism, Carol.
"Okay doctor… I will fuse my entire system…"
we turn into the joker and I blow up the hospital
Kind of annoying how a lot of anti psych seems focused on not liking how mental illness is categorized and labels, as if thats the issue and not the inherent power imbalance between doctor and patient. Labels that talk about clusters of symptoms that appear together commonly are actually incredibly helpful for finding community and resources from people who also experience those things, and you can pry the NPD label from my cold dead hands.
Not to mention that not using categories will not reduce stigma or abuse, since the problem is the behaviours and symptoms themselves are stigmatized, and the psych industry is inherently abusive no matter how they talk about us because of the ungodly power they are given over us. Taking away my label just takes away my community and ways to cope which I only found once I realized it was NPD. Before that i had no framework to understand my symptoms and was having a much worse time and thought I was just abnormal and hated myself.
Focus on the actual issues of doctors having too much control over patients and patients having things done to them involuntarily or not being listened to and not being able to make their own treatment decisions. Destigmatize the labels, don't try to destroy them. Because I and many others are going to continue to use them regardless of whats in the official diagnoses books. And people arent going to not be ableist bc I lack a label. Lacking a label in fact makes it worse, because otherwise they go 'oh its bc they are crazy!!' But if you have a label and know how that disorder works it can be explained to them. Sociatally we need to promote compassion and understanding for different disorders and taking away the language just makes it harder to do that because we wont have a way to talk about it.
It does need to be recognized more that these things are often caused by trauma, the lines between labels are fluid and arbitrary, and people with these labels are not monsters, but that doesnt mean that they are never useful and cant be a tool of liberation and self identity for many people
Its fine if you dont want a label and want to be symptom focused but thats really not what the source of ableism or psych abuse is even though diagnoses can be used as a tool to abuse someone. But any thing can be used that way. We need to take away their control over us entirely so they cannot use anything to abuse us no matter how icky they think we are. Bc they are going to judge us for our symptoms even without a diagnoses. And i am never going to stop using a label that helped me find community, resources, and the ability to treat myself with love and respect for the way that I am.
Honestly a lot of therapy feels like pathologizing perfectly reasonable things to protect yourself in an abusive culture. Like yes I am doing it more because I was abused and traumatized. Yes it is a defense mechanism. But the reason it is defensive is because it will protect you. And sometimes it is harmful or done when not needed. But I feel like its too quick to be like. 'You are doing avoidance, which is a defense mechanism, and therefore bad' when like. Sometimes thats the right thing to do. 'You are threat analyzing too much' the world is full of threats. Sorry I caught you gaslighting me. I know you would prefer if I was complacant but thats not actually something wrong with me. i would like to threat analyze less too but the abuse has taught me the world is full of threats and thats not incorrect.
Don't make your post ugly with a DNI. Just kill anyone you don't like
if you can't see use for a label other than literally being a diagnoses and using it in a clinical setting you are too far gone
bitches who are "so impressed with how you enforce your boundaries" when you enforce your boundaries with them
its really interesting how people will say psychiatry is bad for cluster b and in the same breath try to police how we talk about ourselves and in fact try to prevent us from being able to talk about ourselves or have a community at all. My symptoms do not stop existing just because you dont like the language I use and its actually really shitty to try to police how other people self identify. Im fine with saying it shouldnt be a diagnoses given by psychs. i dont think psychs should give diagnoses. *i dont think psychs should exist.* But saying 'do not use this language!' isnt taking jack nor shit from psychs it is taking community away from cluster b people. And its distracting fromt eh real issues. Just saying eliminate these diagnoses is complete nonsense when we need to dismantle the entire system and discredit the entire way it is practiced. just saying 'i dont want this sticker in my chart that means the psych is allowed to abuse me' isnt really anti psych as some of you think, since its still implying by the nature of focusing on that, that psychiatry isnt inherently abusive to all patients and that just changing the way they view some patients will do anything at all.
It shouldnt be 'this label will get psychs to abuse you, so get rid of the label' it should be 'psychs should not be able to abuse people, and we should destigmatize these disorders which will continue to exist no matter what we call them or how we group them'