#why study psychiatry when some bloke can dish out a npd diagnosis in 5 mins for someone they dont like

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ive been watching on youtube videos about recent financial events such as collapses of crypto related firms, or WeWork, andif the video is about a company with a prominent charismatic figurehead the comments will have at least two people pathologising said figurehead (always narcissism).

i find that pathologising always detracts from any systematic factor that would have aggravated the situation at hand.

many of these people are rich white individuals (and people with disabilities or religious affiliations that are stigmatized would be outliers), have connections that allow an easy access to capital or regulatory ignorance, or in adam neumman’s case, live in a culture where alcoholism is normalised.

pathologising the criminal (or just individual, some of these people arent even convicted) removes any accountability they or the people around have over the situation, demonizes mental illness and ignores the system(s) where the situation happened. in summary, helping nobody in any manner save furthering stigma against mentally ill individuals while giving yourself, the pathologiser, some measure of control over the situation and a moral pat on the back.