#psychiatry bad

[naamahdarling]

So I'm reading The Body Keeps the Score and it's...mildly illuminating. I'm only part way through and have hope that it might be somewhat helpful to me personally or have even more good observations, because there really are some, and I think that once I get over my disgust and anger, I might even be able to appreciate them.

But what struck me is how this fuckin guy, who is clearly just really into helping people and wants to try to change things and has good intentions and a lot of meaningful experience, and has valuable observations, this guy who really fucking cares, still describes watching actual crimes occur in front of him without intervening, and participating in them sometimes, without acknowledging them directly as crimes or expressing more than some regret. And these crimes were committed upon patients who were already severely traumatized and were in a traumatizing setting, hence their fractious or nonresponsive behavior. Like, he's about as good and well-meaning a guy as you can find, and I see why he has been so important in his field, and still.

He did/does remarkable work, I won't lie, but it just drives home how even though most of these horrible people who taught him may be dead (good) and even though a whole lot of his peers are out of the game by now, STILL their poison lingers, because they absolutely trained a shitfuckassload of the people currently practicing, and trained most of the older people currently still in charge. Two professional generations back and they're using textbooks that are like "ehhh, incest isn't harmful to women, and might actually have psychological benefits." BITCH WHAT? Of COURSE it's fucking awful. That's like common fucking sense. To not be able to see that would require you being mindfucked into believing literally the opposite of what the most basic empathy would tell you is true. These people got their brains washed and then bathed in shit. And now we have the system we do, built by them.

No wonder psych wards are trauma farms and staff utterly ungoverned. They don't see a damn thing wrong with treating their inmates like animals. It's how it's always been done. I mean, I knew that, but still. I keep learning things that make me hate them even more than I did. At every turn they have chosen to perpetuate pain because all they can understand is the need to control these people into behaving "normally".

[feyd-meowtha]

Being a psychiatrist in the 60s/70s was so fucking crazy, like I imagine that's what it felt like to be a pirate in Pirate Times (1650-1730) or a cowboy in Cowboy Times (1866-1886). They were psychiatrists in the Psychiatrist Times. I hope they appreciated it

[verademialove]

“The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of its parents.”

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

[angelnumber27]

I dont think some people understand how truly awful and hellish withdrawals from some psych medications are.

[dewardin]

[giritina]

Is it a hot take to say hard line anti-psychiatry is definitely reactionary and anti-science and bad

[communistkenobi]

idk it’s just really disheartening sometimes seeing liberals and progressives champion trans rights but justify their support by citing psychiatric and medical institutions

[geronimostiltonofficial]

god bless my history of medicine seminar bc when i took ap psych in high school it was so whig-ish in its appraisal of psychiatric history lol. very “back in the day we didnt have good ethics but now its fine :)” like NO acknowledgement about how those power structures are inherently oppressive or how historical abuses can live on in psychiatric care today.

anyways i think that psych majors should be forced to do at least a few courses on the history of psych and modern ethics bc the amount of people ive met at my hellhole of a university who uncritically parrot shit about mental illnesses that have complex histories intertwined w abuse and racism and misogyny is worrying.

[technicontrastron]

god forbid people who know about their empathy issues tackle it in a methodic way instead of just flipping the switch on duhhh

[irrealisms]

samaritans won't call the cops on you if i remember correctly and i'm in the uk (source i was researching it about a month ago and on their website they said if they can determine you're an adult and aware of what you're doing they have to let you do it) (BUT take that with a grain of salt because "aware of what you're doing" is technically subjective) (but i wonder if you don't give identifying info if they would be able to call anyone on you?) (AND i didn't end up calling them so i can't vouch for if they're any good. you know. at helping. but sometimes you need to just let it out)

Thank you! Hopefully this is helpful to my UK followers

[deepfriedseagullfeet]

painting in my mixed media sketchbook

[hazzzyrider]

Talking to an open field. I really would like to encourage people to step out of the anti-DSM-5-TR / psychology / psychiatry to ask yourself if you are being reasonably doubtful about its flaws or are you slowly slipping into anti-mental health / conspiracy theory behavior.

[docktowns]

it's almost 5 am and i am contemplating applying for a regional vp of marketing position for cedar fair

[ceramicbeetle]

forgive any incomprehensibility but the notion that the world can be cleanly split between the two immutable categories of 'the neurotypical' and 'the neurodiverse' ignores the reality that any person can at any point for any reason be arbitrarily 'diagnosed' by a 'professional' and shuttled between categories with no regard for the notions of 'accurate traits' or 'specific symptoms'. nice dichotomy what lies outside of it? you understand me?

[oldtvandcomics]

I think I have identified one of the best things ever

Historic horror. The monsters are fictional, but the true horror is in the society. All the atrocities described really happened, the horror elements just heighten it. Queer protagonists with intersecting marginalized identities, also chosen to highlight the horror.

I want more. I need more. Does anyone know more books like these two?

[friendlessclown]

god i hate being a person with thoughts. fucking terrible