[cleaningouttherooms]

AN ANTIPSYCHIATRY FAQ

03/2025 - for a prison abolitionist, psych abolitionist, pro-drug, communist perspective.

after a few weeks of work, here it is! trying to centralize some answers to the most common questions that people receive about psychiatry and psych abolition, also including a short introductory reading list. i will keep it updated if I think of any important questions or topics to include.

thank you a lot to @transmutationisms for his help, input and work, especially in the disability section!

feel free to share on other websites, print, etc. i might also try to work on a french translation in the future. love and power <3

[librarycards]

like i just think we need to understand that when you make some sweeping & prejudiced statement against people with restrictive eating disorders you are not making that statement against skinny people [oppressor class] you are making it against disabled people [oppressed class] and those are very different things

[ohgodohfuckohgeez]

Welp. Google's AI horseshit has arrived. And I'm not complying. They can pry my ID out of my cold dead hands. I will simply go elsewhere. Remember folks, DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR IDs. Do not comply. Resist, fight it, use other browsers or sources beyond youtube and google controlled services. Call them. Email them. Make noise. Fight back.

[mocrlbmutwwwptth]

I've been using Google as my main mail service since 2006, and every single account or service I've ever signed up for was made with that address. For a long time I thought it'd be impossible to divorce myself from Google.

It took less than 5 minutes to switch to a ProtonMail account, less than 2 hours to download and/or offload every byte of data from my Google account, and less than 3 days to change every single account or service I've ever signed up for to the new address.

As of today, the only single one I have that's still tied to it is YouTube. It's the only thing I'd lose access to if I deleted my Google acount entirely.

They really, really want you to believe that it's a hassle to switch to a different email system. But it's not. Most websites and/or services allow you to change the email address associated with it.

I've been using Google for almost 2 decades and it only took a few days to move everything. It's not a painful sacrifice; it's an easy change that, frankly, has absolutely been worth it.

[twilight-deviant]

Proton Shoutout

You can and should switch to a free, encrypted Proton email account. You also get all of the below perks. For free. There is no trick. It is paid for by the people with paying plans. I am one of them. The (completely functional) free tier is there to entice you into getting a paid account with even more perks. (It worked on me.) But there's no penalty or pressure for staying with the free account.

Also get your stuff off the google drive and put it on Proton's drive. It is encrypted. Only you with your password can access it. Not even Proton can see what you put in there.

[tzikeh]

Switch everything away from Google. It's easy and it's important. Read above, click the link for Proton, download your gmail and switch.

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[jenroses]

pretty sure I did the chrome//flags thing a while ago, but also i switched to firefox, which is not without the occasional bullshit, but is vastly less bullshitty than chrome. This is why I treat genai "features" like the invasive blackberry bushes they are: cut, root, burn, and vigilantly watch for new shoots to uproot. I'm 54 years old and the world got by fine without genai for most of my lifetime.

[sniperct]

tags via@KKglinka #psa#having read the article#it's not clickbait#chrome is reaching#across all chromium browsers#to link a prepatory structure#this malware packet#will therefore occur#with all chromium browsers#it has nothing to do#with the actual ai interface#instead chrome is either#using your personal computer#as part of a cloud server#the way bitcoin malware works#or it's recording your own#actions on the computer#with a continuously active#background module#either way#that's malware#a 4gig trojan virus

[definitely-zen-browser]

#across all chromium browsers

THIS IS NOT JUST CHROME!!!

If you use Opera, Brave, Helium, Vivaldi, Arc, Yandex, or god forbid Edge, this affects you too!!!

[puppygirllaika]

talking about stuff like prison reform or the SO registry really quickly makes you realize how many peoples political ideology boils down to "look, just tell me who the bad people are so I know who we should be killing."

[backofthebookshelf]

People who believe that teens should have access to all kinds of fiction and information, people who believe that teens are smart enough to make their own decisions about what they are and aren’t uncomfortable with, people who will happily smuggle sex ed books to kids with parents who believe that you shouldn’t know what those parts are for until you turn 18…will always oppose adding content warnings to YA books.

Because look, adding a content warning to something is to a censor just like waving a red flag in front of a bull. It’s a great big sign that says “censor me first!!” Easily accessible content warnings mean it’s harder for closeted teens with homophobic parents to read books with queer content. Easily accessible content warnings means it’s harder for librarians to smuggle sex ed books to kids who only get abstinence-only education. Easily accessible content warnings means it’s easier for organizations who want to present themselves as “family-friendly” to exclude whole categories of information from their collections, the way Wal-Mart doesn’t sell music with “Explicit” labels (even though some of the albums they now won’t carry I bought from Wal-Mart before there were labels on albums).

In 1999, Congress tried to make it mandatory for schools and libraries to use Internet filters to protect the children from seeing porn on the internet, and we were able to fight it because the filters were terrible; if everything was appropriately labeled with content warning, that argument wouldn’t work any more, and they could mandate content filters, but I don’t believe for a second that those filters would be any better about not labeling queer content as inherently more adult than heterosexual content or deciding that information about birth control is inherently sexual in nature.

I don’t know how to solve this problem. I don’t know how you balance the rights of people not to be blindsided by something traumatic or even just something they’re not prepared to handle with humanity’s ceaseless desire to control other people. But I know that with the culture we have right now, widespread content warnings on YA fiction specifically are going to cause more harm than they prevent and it’s a very dangerous policy to promote.

[swallowtailpenis]

#huh yeah#this is a conversation that needs to be had#i absolutely would have been completely stuck and isolated as a teen if everything was 100% properly tagged and categorized online#like. i was in a “17 years old and still not allowed to use social media and completely homeschooled” situation so if websites had been#properly labeling themselves as social media when they had that aspect i would literally still be at home now#as an adult#because i wouldn’t have been able to get around the filters to talk to people who got me out of that house#even apart from that if the books i brought home had proper content warnings… well#i certainly wouldn’t have had a healthy relationship to my sexuality#and i’d have been banned from reading trans centered fiction for sure#as it was my biomom did not know when i brought home a book that had a trans character#and that was a saving grace#regardless of my anecdotal experience though. this conversation needs to be had <- prev tags, not mine!

[hyperlexichypatia]

It’s telling that children’s books don’t have content warnings. Books aimed at 5 year olds don’t have content warnings. Why would books aimed at teens?

Because younger children are usually under the supervision of parents or other adults when they browse for books, but teens might be browsing for books on their own.

The “content warnings” are for the parents.

[hexpatient]

some psychiatry loaded language and thought stopping cliches:

The Work (what exactly is the work??? unless this is explained with concrete specifics, it is meaningless)

Maybe that was true before, but it isnt now (assumption. often blatantly false)

It's over now (assumption. often blatantly false)

that's irrational (general shut down and dismissal, but often blatantly false. higher class way of calling something crazy. gives a false impression of intellectualism)

thats's just the [mental illness/pathology] talking (maybe or maybe not, but they do not actually think about it or engage with any reasoning. another easy general shut down and dismissal)

you just think/feel like/believe/perceive that (pathologizes knowledge by asserting that it is a disordered thought, feeling, belief, or observation)

take responsibility [for being abused/traumatized] (usually just victim blaming, and obscuring the responsibility of the abusing/traumatizing party if applicable, a subtle accusation. choosing to see a mental health professional is literally taking responsibility. at this point, what is "responsible" is so elusive that it has no actual meaning. what does an abused person do to "take responsibility" for that when the abuse is outside of their control, which is a key element of abuse and also trauma? ultimately it is a distraction and a re-delegation of the burden back onto the victim. without clear specifics, this means nothing)

negative thoughts/beliefs/feelings ("negative" within psychiatry and especially in this context, is synonymous with "false" and "sinful" and "sick" as in mental illness)

healing/recovery (this does not actually refer to what a mental health patient wants and needs to improve their life and quality of life, but to the desired traits and goals of their professionals. often it is characterized in such a way that suggests a kind of transcendence: you are barely a human being anymore you are so healed. nothing phases you. you are indifferent to life's horrors)

suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem (disregards the ongoing issues suicidal people have, their efforts to alleviate those issues, and trivializes their desire to die as a result of poor logic)

[hexpatient]

for 2 and 3 (maybe that was true before but its not now/its over now) i said its an assumption, but its more like a mythology. the mythology is that Its Over Now because whatever it was, its ended. and now you're in therapy. They cannot and do not conceptualize certain kinds of chronic struggles like abuse. i never ever had any psych professional who would acknowledge that abuse was an ongoing reality for me in any meaningful way. Its Over Now. the only reason i think it isnt is because, well, number 5 that's just the mental illness talking. i truly dont think psych professionals are able to (or willing to) admit that bad things can be happening right now. thats just not part of the psychiatric dogma.

[plural-the-way-you-dont-like]

Happy pride month specifically to kinky littles!!!!!!

[plural-the-way-you-dont-like]

Happy pride month to transfem alters in transmasc bodiess

Happy pride month to transmasc alters in transfem bodies

Happy pride month to systems who cant be openly plural in fear of not being allowed to medically transition

[librarycards]

like i just think we need to understand that when you make some sweeping & prejudiced statement against people with restrictive eating disorders you are not making that statement against skinny people [oppressor class] you are making it against disabled people [oppressed class] and those are very different things

[librarycards]

the thing about talking to people about psychiatric abuse is that you quickly learn that there are dozens and dozens of ppl around you who experienced unspeakable trauma at the hands of the psych industry in all its iterations and we just walk through the world inundated by messages re: carceral 'recovery' and 'healing' and 'wellness' silent and sucking ourselves in & choking back the memory of what we endured and feeling as though we're alone, truly alone, lacking even the last names of the people we suffered alongside, but we're literally everywhere, all we need to do is reach out and touch each other

[encodedincommotion-deactivated2]

it's kind of astounding how much faith people have in psychiatry nowadays. approximately every 20 years since psychiatry was invented psychiatrists have come out with a new announcement that everything their profession has ever done was accidentally torture but they've totally stopped being morally bankrupt monsters now and have finally found a way to treat psychotic people that isn't torture so we can all trust them forever now.

"oh we're sorry about beating people to death to drive out demons, we've invented a wonderful operation that will cure your problems and can be done by any wandering yahoo with an icepick!"

"oh we're sorry about giving people permanent brain damage, we've invented a wonderful machine that shocks your brain back into working right!"

"oh we're sorry that was also permanent brain damage we've invented some wonderful pills that can act as a less harmful chemical lobotomy!"

"oh those pills made the entire rest of your body stop working sorry we have new ones that won't do that."

"oh we're sorry those new pills don't do jack shit for your brain while also still giving you tardive dyskinesia. we decided to revisit the old electrocution cure and we swear it works for real and doesn't use enough electricity to give you permanent brain damage anymore allegedly."

next up: "if you guys are still listening to us at this point i think we can all finally admit you don't care if we torture psychotic people, so don't even worry about it."

[fizzysbathtub]

no you should never be forced to have a treatment against your consent YES THIS INCLUDES FORCED INCARCERATION IN A PSYCH WARD and it also includes "consenting" incarceration in a psych ward where they just make you sign a paper saying you consented because "it will be easier for you" if you do but no you are not allowed to leave

i dont care if someone tries to kill themselves i dont care i dont care i dont care all "help" should be voluntary or it is just abuse

[kaioty-summer]

Hey, did y'all see this?

I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today,we have 83 days left until Google rolld out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out thwir full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements ut we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends,family and anyone who will listen!

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

[kaioty-summer]

Also, I wanted to add the wikipage and EFF statements about Keep Android Open Org so people can have a better understanding and more resources because I didn't give enough earlier and I will take that critique.

Google's Mandatory Android Dev Registration Rule Faces Revolt

EFF and F-Droid have led 37 organizations in demanding Google rescind its mandatory Android developer registration policy set to take effect

Keep Android Open - Wikipedia

[plumpmaggot]

[anarchopuppy]

isnt it maddening how one day ur 9 and u go to middle school and cub scouts and all the kids are cursing and making dirty jokes and drawing dicks and repeating offensive shit they got from watching south park and family guy on their bedroom tv after their parents have gone to bed (on the same channel that shows kids cartoons during the day) and playing horrifically violent games on newgrounds and a handful of the kids u know have straight up told u they do coke, then next thing u know ur an adult and the ppl around u expect u to act like even the slightest exposure to potentially objectionable content or depictions of the human body will instantly and irreversibly shatter any childs fragile innocent mind

and theyre like "prove to me this wont traumatize my children!" and even the ppl who agree w u go "well u see, in other cultures, and in the ancient past, and if u look at this study-" but like. my source is every child whos ever grown up at any point in human history. open ur eyes. we have never been able to stop kids from seeing and repeating adult stuff and we never will, and its always just been fine

[foxboybf-deactivated20250611]

went from "this edible aint shit" to "oh fuck dad please dont stop im gonna cum please please please"