I’ve had ‘really-sad’ for years and still have. I was glad at first to have found a word for it, and to have found the chemical imbalance theory (yes it was a theory, in the meantime debunked). It took a few decades to understand that the psychiatry narrative of my ‘really-sad’ is close to an accurate description, but hides the real causes of it. Psychiatry never mentions the failures in our societies as causes of the unwellness but treats the unwellness as individual failure, and that’s not an innocent error to make.
Psychiatry never mentions the failures in our societies as causes of the unwellness but treats the unwellness as individual failure, and that’s not an innocent error to make.
I completely agree. But for me, this does not make psychiatry a hierarchy. It makes psychiatry a framework tainted by the logic of capitalism. And if it’s too tainted for you to trust, I completely sympathize. But I do still believe that, despite its foundational flaws, it is still capable of being liberatory, even in its nascent stage as a science.
Really, I wanted to respectfully push back on the notion that leftists who use or support the use of psychiatry have failed to consider the abuses that psychiatry has committed upon us. I have. And I’m living the consequences of my analysis.
I’ve had ‘really-sad’ for years and still have. I was glad at first to have found a word for it, and to have found the chemical imbalance theory (yes it was a theory, in the meantime debunked). It took a few decades to understand that the psychiatry narrative of my ‘really-sad’ is close to an accurate description, but hides the real causes of it. Psychiatry never mentions the failures in our societies as causes of the unwellness but treats the unwellness as individual failure, and that’s not an innocent error to make.
I completely agree. But for me, this does not make psychiatry a hierarchy. It makes psychiatry a framework tainted by the logic of capitalism. And if it’s too tainted for you to trust, I completely sympathize. But I do still believe that, despite its foundational flaws, it is still capable of being liberatory, even in its nascent stage as a science.
Really, I wanted to respectfully push back on the notion that leftists who use or support the use of psychiatry have failed to consider the abuses that psychiatry has committed upon us. I have. And I’m living the consequences of my analysis.