#I'm still firmly antipsych

[knxfesck]

Identifying that a societal and medical structure to treat your problems is fundamentally flawed does not mean that the problems don't exist. Recognizing that our environments cause so many of us to have these problems that they are not "anomalies" (and deviant from a psychiatric baseline formed in willful ignorance) does not mean that mental health issues lose their harmful effects purely from being the new normal. Like. Just because you've discovered its not an individual failure to be depressed or have a pd doesn't mean these things don't affect your life. If we all lived in a utopia some people would still have mental health issues. The doctors being unhelpful is not a cue to decide everything is fake.

I'm not entirely antipsychiatry mainly because I'm seeing it turn into this thing on here where it's like "my diagnosis/es is/are not real" but not in a "diagnoses are merely a tool to identify and explain experiences that impact one's ability to function and are not an indicator of morality or what have you" way, rather in a "there is nothing wrong with me, there can't be anything wrong with me, anyone who says there may be something wrong with me is the problem and the doctors are evil" way and I feel like thats a bit of a recipie for disaster but what do I know I'm literally just some guy

[bonni]

I'm not saying that there aren't people in leftist circles who still demonize these "disorders" (there absolutely are) but ngl most people I see who avoid bringing up "schizophrenia" and "personality disorders" when talking about neurodivergence aren't trying to exclude people who have been labeled that way, they're just rejecting the labels because they're functionally meaningless. being antipsych means understanding that "personality disorders" and plurality are included under the umbrella of complex trauma and that "schizophrenia" is an ill-defined and racially charged label that is not synonymous with psychosis, a stress-induced symptom cluster that can be observed in many "disorders." I'm always very wary of posts that act like neurodivergence should be defined *more* firmly, using *more* rigid and historically problematic labels, as opposed to moving away from said labels altogether to discuss how neurodivergence is constructed socially, and the causes behind the behavior patterns that we classify as mental illness.