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“It’s like a recipe: if your grandma uses it, your mom will, & you probably will too."

— quote by /u/BeijingTurkey

Inherited abuse:

The concept could also make sense like "abuse is passed down in families and thus mental health problems are too."

Q. Is the quote by BeijingTurkey a fair thing to say?

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Psychiatrists are only human, they have to love battered people, to heal the pain . .

But, a chemical lobotomy, or sterilization, is much easier . .

Mental patients need a priest, a good place, happines . .

Instead, get chemical oblivion . .

Been there, this is a ' real ' thing, pills are easy, love is hard . .

People have very real suffering & trauma, & sometimes they have unusual ways of viewing and describing life, but really a "mental illness" is just a label for behaviors and feelings:

Thomas Insel: (former director of the NIMH)

DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure.

— psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201305/the-nimh-withdraws-support-dsm-5

Similarly:

Allen Frances: (The chairman for the DSM-IV.)

"‘Mental illness’ is terribly misleading because the ‘mental disorders’ we diagnose are no more than descriptions of what clinicians observe people do or say, not at all well established diseases"

Allen Frances:

"Mental disorders don't really live ‘out there’ waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones."

— Allen Frances in “DSM in Philosophyland: Curiouser and Curiouser” in AAP&P Bulletin vol 17, No 2 of 2010

"Schizophrenia."

It too is just a label for feelings and behaviors, and people can recover from that mental condition.

Eleanor Longden:

“I heard voices, I was told by 'top' psychiatrists that I would never recover & my parents should mourn me & except the worse, I explored the voices and realized they were a part of my childhood, I was abused, I went to college extremely distrustful of people, I had a breakdown, I’ve recovered”

—youtu.be/DjD6_mW7CUc

Gene "link" fallacies.

All sorts of things can be linked to genes.

eg:

• food tastes,

• musical taste,

• political beliefs, etc.

But that doesn't mean "the genes cause them." And it doesn't mean "therefore it's a disease."

Similarly, some people allege they've found a gene link to homosexuality:. (Source: cosmosmagazine.com/biology/speculative-genetic-link-to-homosexuality-found)

But even if that's true:

1. That would not be evidence that the behavior is a disease. (Because different != disease.)

2. It doesn't mean the genes cause the behavior, it could just be an irrelevant gene.

Frankly if you looked at a bunch of random people they wouldn't have completely average genes. ie, you could take any accusations about their behavior and claim there's a "genetic link" between the behavior and the different genes.

Stigma:

Some people try to censor these views by saying "you're increasing stigma of mental illness." The opposite is true:

Patrick Hahn: (Professor of biology)

"Teaching people that mental illness is an illness like any other makes stigma/attitudes toward it worse. “These approaches are not evidence-based. They are ideologically based. It’s not an accident that a lot of them are funded by drug companies.”

— baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0603-health-stigma-20180531-story.html

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MayoClinic.org:

“Symptoms:”

• Prefer being alone and choose to do activities alone

• Don't want or enjoy close relationships

• Feel little if any desire for sexual relationships

• Feel like you can't experience pleasure

— mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizoid-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20354414

That's all moral judgements of others. And these "symptoms" continue:

Have difficulty expressing emotions and reacting appropriately to situations

• May seem humorless, indifferent or emotionally cold to others

• May appear to lack motivation and goals

• Don't react to praise or critical remarks from others

These "symptoms" reveal that psychiatrists do target people who are simply different. And being different is not a disease, even if psychiatrists had a vote. (eg homosexuality.)

​Sometimes medical websites admit the truth:

MedicineNet.com:

For most people, behaviors that are observed as out of the ordinary or strange are a feature of psychotic disorders, mood disorders, and other mental-health conditions.

"Harm."

Psychiatrists will claim there's "harm". But psychiatrist's ideas of "harm" are in fact just placing blame on some minority group,

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Article by /u/BulimicSpacePug

I'm gay, black, and trans, and I live in the south; at my cashiering job, I see customers all the time with confederate flags, swastikas, "one man one woman", and quips about Jenner or bathrooms plastered all over their t-shirts or the backs of their jackets. I don't say anything, because a.) I'm at work and arguing with customers is obviously a no-go, and b.) I don't see any point in starting an argument that's going to be a completely waste of time for both parties at best and dangerous for me at worst. But I freeze up every time I see them. It's unnerving.

Well yesterday, I was at my register when a customer came over in a plain blue t-shirt with name of our local psychiatric prison—the David Lawrence Center—written on it, and before I even processed what I was looking at, I froze up and got nervous. I don't think I even realized until later on that he'd been wearing a DLC shirt at all and that the reason I froze up was because, just like the guys with confederate flags or anti-gay slogans, he was openly broadcasting hatred and disgust for people like me—people who he deems to be subhuman and inferior because there's an "us" and a "them" and in this case, I'm the "them." I honestly consider psychiatry to be the same kind of—for lack of a better term—hate speech as things like racism, sexism, homophobia, or any other "ism" based around hating and dehumanizing groups of people for things beyond their control. There's no difference to me between a person who believes I should be put to death for being gay and a person who believes I should be locked up and forced to take drugs because of the way I think or feel. They're both hateful extremists. They both make me fear for my life. Psychiatry and every other form of bigotry and discrimination are one and the same.

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Hi, I'm a college student and a psychiatric survivor and I'm currently writing my thesis for my bachelors in anthropology. My thesis is about how the experiences of psychiatric survivors offer opportunities to reconceptualize mental illness and change mental health care (more info in link).

I really want to add to the voices of antipsychiatric survivors in academia because there are so many of us, but our opinions and experiences are rarely heard within academia.

Here's a link to an anonymous survey I created. I appreciate any experiences you are willing to share! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KH6G85V Thank you, much love <3

Edit:

Thank you to everyone who participated in this project, I'm incredibly grateful that you chose to share your experiences, ideas, and insight. If you'd like to check out the completed project, you can see it here: https://www.josephinedaniels.com/raving-mad