#lucy johnstone

[seeyatellite]

So, I first found this video while sitting in a McLaren Pontiac behavioral health dayroom. I scribbled notes in my journal… slapdash and craptastically.

Now… I share this because I appreciate it from a self-assessment lens and I think anyone who’s struggled with their mental health and truly been invested in healing might love this framework as much as I do.

Diagnosed: ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar consistently all through my life. The only diagnosis’ all professionals have agreed upon are ADHD, Depression and Bipolar because there are clear variables in my level of comfort including whether a family member is in the room and which one.

I hope this helps someone.

https://youtu.be/zVApCYLaWjE?si=ct0fEzXzJ2jLEMbm

[seeyatellite]

Loving Google’s Gemini AI’s clear concision around the Power Threat Meaning Framework:

Yes, I am familiar with the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) developed by Lucy Johnstone and others.

Here's a summary of what I know about it:

* Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis: The PTMF is a non-medical model of mental distress. It offers an alternative to traditional psychiatric diagnoses by focusing on the individual's experiences and the social context in which they live.

* Focus on Power, Threat, and Meaning: The framework emphasizes the role of power dynamics, threats, and the meanings people make of their experiences in contributing to emotional distress and troubled behavior. It encourages exploring questions like:

* What has happened to you?

* How did it affect you?

* What sense did you make of it?

* Social Context: The PTMF highlights the impact of social factors like poverty, discrimination, and inequality, as well as experiences of trauma, abuse, and violence, on mental well-being.

* Hopeful Narratives: It aims to help people create more hopeful narratives about their lives, moving away from self-blame and seeing their experiences as understandable responses to difficult circumstances.

* Collaborative Approach: The PTMF promotes collaborative conversations and exploration of personal narratives, rather than relying on expert-driven assessments and diagnoses.

Key Principles of the PTMF:

* Experiences are understandable: Emotional distress and unusual experiences are seen as understandable responses to life events and circumstances.

* Power is relevant: The framework acknowledges the role of power imbalances in shaping people's experiences and their mental well-being.

* Meaning-making is central: The PTMF emphasizes how people make sense of their experiences and the impact of these meanings on their emotional state.

Overall, the Power Threat Meaning Framework offers a valuable alternative perspective on mental health, focusing on individual experiences, social context, and the power of meaning-making.

I hope this information is helpful! Let me know if you have any other questions.

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The DSM is wrong in principle, based as it is on re-defining a whole range of understandable reactions to life circumstances as “illnesses”, which then become a target for toxic medications heavily promoted by the pharmaceutical industry….The DSM project cannot be justified, in principle or in practice. It must be abandoned so that we can find more humane and effective ways of responding to mental distress.

Lucy Johnstone, Time to abolish psychiatric diagnosis?

[madness-narrative]

Re-defining someone’s reality for them is the most insidious and the most devastating form of power we can use. It may be done with the best of intentions, but it is wrong – scientifically, professionally, and ethically.

Lucy Johnstone, Time to abolish psychiatric diagnosis?