#capitalism is a product of aspd/npd

[healingwgabs]

Saw your most recent post in the ASPD tags, don't post there if your going to be abelist.

It’s not ableist, ppl with these patterns thrive in our society and are quite overrepresented in powerful jobs and are quite successful (in this sense)! I’d go as far as to argue that our current society was built by them and for them to excel in, giving them an unfair advantage over others who carry more “light triad” qualities and aren't along the spectrum. Even if u look at the workweek, most ppl don’t function like that (they're wired differently)...I do recognize that these disorders are stigmatized, however, I do think that’s for good reason and those who have these diagnoses should be approached with caution. ASPD is a diagnosis that is more of a danger to others more than anything else if u read the criteria

[psychabolition]

do you have any thoughts or opinions you'd like to share on the concept of "recovery"? id be glad to see your take if you feel like talking about it

I think whats especially interesting about the concept of recovery is the moral obligation to 'recover'. The question is why do we feel like we need to pathologize certain behavior/feelings/desire? I think the answer to that is that it relieves shame to say that its a disease causing us to not be able to do something that is expected societally. Its easier to say that you have a disease that makes you do/think/feel 'bad/immoral things' instead of feeling like you ARE a bad person for thinking/feeling/doing 'bad/immoral things'.

But what if it isnt immoral to want to kill yourself? What if you arent a bad person for wanting and/or needing to use drugs? What if your inability to work/study/go to school isnt bad and wrong and makes you have less worth in our society? All of these things are literally morally neutral if you think about it, even if they arent coming from a 'disease' in your mind/brain.

Also, to take it a step further, what if we stop seperating us into our mind/brain (which is diseased and ill and dysfunctional and that wants to kill us/harm us) and our 'Real' Self that is Healthy and that wants to Live and Thrive? If we think about it, we ARE our minds and body and brain.

In a world where our struggles arent atomized, individualized and blamed onto us by calling our minds diseased instead of asking what real tangible societal/communal issues cause our real and justified distress, we could finally stop blaming ourselves (/our minds/brains) for the way we experience distress/pain/neurodiversity and the ways which we dont fit into this ill society. In a world where we are able to truly look after each other our needs will be centred and madness will not be seen as an individual failing but a greater incentive to solidify our communities.

Also I think the concept of recovery sucks in general. We deserve better than carceral systems seeking to "recover" our compliance and productivity in service of the state & capital. In my experience (as sb who was labelled with extremely stigmatizing labels like aspd/npd/...) if you dont embrace this concept of the 'recovery' that psychologists force onto you then you are denied your personhood+ the 'social absolution that embracing "recovery" offers.

I was told that 'I dont know whats good for me' in therapy. That my recovery 'goals' are something that Im too ill to set for myself (because what I want for myself doesnt align with what they/society expects of me). They tried to coerce me into taking/staying on meds that made it easier for them to deal with me (antipsychotics/mood stabilizers), not meds that actually made me feel better. I confused them to no end because I never suffered from the things that THEY said I suffer from (like for example hallucinations - to me they were a reaction to stress similiar to crying. I dont suffer from hallucinations in the same way others dont suffer from crying 😂). I personally am firmly anti-recovery. I dont plan on becoming more normal ,Im fine with being mad. Especially since I met people who actually value and like me for my neurodivergency/neurononconformity. Finding community made me feel so much better without having to literally change my whole personality (remember: Im diagnosed with personality disorders)

Thank you for your ask!