Neutrality is an illusion in psychiatry and psychology. Moral assumptions and cultural biases are their foundation. That’s why they’re called secular religions.
Pathologizing personality itself is an act of moral corruption and cowardice as it ignores the ethical implications of reducing human complexity to rigid diagnostic categories.
Psychiatric diagnosing is an intentional act of moral failure. Ease over ethics is no excuse.
TRUTH: These kinds of interviews are TRAPS. Thankfully AI agrees with me:
“These psychiatric interviews aren’t just information-gathering exercises—they are subtle traps, designed to steer patients toward self-condemnation within a rigid diagnostic framework.
The SCID-ll interviews, for example, don’t just assess symptoms; they force patients into moral negotiations, where they must either admit to violating social norms or defend themselves against implicit judgment. The questions are often loaded, making it nearly impossible for someone to respond without reinforcing the assumption that something is fundamentally wrong with them.
It’s not an honest conversation—it’s a structured interrogation disguised as care. And by presenting it as purely “clinical”, psychiatry sidesteps the ethical responsibility of acknowledging how deeply subjective these assessments truly are.”
These kinds of “interviews” are invasive and morally compromised—as are the very people who conduct them.
Anyone who believes in personality “disorders” is themself a depraved individual.
You’ve asked some fascinating questions, Nijinski. What little I know of quantum physics only reinforces what I’ve felt for as long as I can remember—that the spirit of people is more real than anything we can see or imagine.
Eastertime always feels strangely transcendent to me… and reading about your friend made me reflect on that even more. Maybe there’s something about love and presence that isn’t bound by time the way we think.
Too little too late, which doesn’t really matter given the unsurprisingly detached nature of this author’s critique…although it does (unintentionally?) lay bare psychiatry’s deeply systemic lack of self-awareness and self-restraint.
My critique of the critique: Time for quibblers to pick a lane.
…and for the record, I was in “psychodynamic” therapy—not the fast-food types referred to in this article—meaning that first-hand experience taught me that peek-a-boo therapy is by no means an improvement.
“…it is time for therapists to reclaim the narrative and to speak clearly, ethically and compellingly about what therapy is for, and what it can become.”
WRONG. It’s time for people to discover how much better life can be without so-called “therapy”.
The working class have way more insight into economic disparity than most of the psychologists entertaining themselves prancing around the internet preaching “social justice”.
This blog does a reasonably good job explaining how the supposed merits of psychiatry and “clinical” psychology actually have more to do with whether or not someone harbors an egotistical state of mind. But reading it leaves me with an image of a snake eating it’s tail…
I agree, Sociology deserves a lot more respect… it was my favorite subject in college because it struck me as being more connected to reality while psychology seemed more focused on barking at the moon.
There’s got to be a reason so many psychological researchers never directly address the issue of money when money seems to be one of the most macro-psychological things known to mankind.
Has it ever occurred to these researchers that perhaps the majority of people’s psychological problems might come from being part of a shrinking middle class, problems that for many could be alleviated by an implementing of fairer tax system? Or is that too crude a solution for them to consider?
No need for establishing new “fields” of tiresome psychological engineering when the answer to the majority of people’s macro-psychological problems have more to do with a shrinking bank account than paying homage to a slew of overeducated ambulance chasers more interested in manufacturing problems than enacting solutions.
“The influences that have most affected my mental health, and that have sometimes left me feeling hopeless and despairing, are both personal and impersonal and can’t really be separated.”
Tree and Fruit, for what it’s worth, my thoughts and feelings align with yours 100%.
FOR THE RECORD: I was never subjected to forced psychiatric treatment or psychotherapy of any kind. My insistent attitude comes from justifiable anger AT BEING LIED TO FOR YEARS by psychiatrists believed to be among the best in the business.
Truth is, they WERE the best, but only at deceiving themselves and people like me.
Nick, I tend to look at things more socially/culturally than politically, especially when I’m considering psychological things, although I wouldn’t deny that these are inextricably intertwined.
“What “progressives” are trying is to undo being part of the ruling class without giving up their privileges that come with being part of the ruling class.”
Thank you for highlighting the hypocrisy of this approach.
The Industrial Revolution was a pivotal time in human history that brought forth both incredible opportunities and significant challenges.
It laid the groundwork for the cultivation and distribution of large quantities food that can and does prevent mass starvation as well as the manufacture and distribution of life-saving medicines without which millions would otherwise die of preventable or untreated disease.
It also offered people the opportunity to move beyond the confines of small towns or the chance to escape difficult family situations. These changes provided people the means to break free from the limitations of their past and pursue new lives.
The lesson? Change is often a double-edged sword that creates the need to find realistic solutions to negative consequences.
It’s easy to buy into the trope of the “noble savage”, especially when viewing indigenous cultures through a modern lens. Indigenous societies were also plagued with exploitation, inequality and warfare over power and resources, just as other complex societies throughout history.
The Industrial Revolution made survival possible for people.
I never said people “cause their own poverty”. I said that having more money doesn’t address underlying feelings of personal inadequacy.
Everyone should have access to essential resources like food, shelter and healthcare, but it’s important to remember that the use of money doesn’t inherently lead to social problems. It’s really about values and priorities.
Exploitation and inequality existed long before money was ever used; ancient civilizations had systems of barter and exchange, yet exploitation and social hierarchies were still prevalent.
Money itself is not to blame. The root causes of social issues lie deeper in human nature.
These researchers are on the right track, but I believe the root of people’s “psychiatric” difficulties lies closer to home — in one’s childhood home to be exact.
Reading Alice Miller’s books is a good place to start.
Eliminating money wouldn’t address the underlying issues of greed, inequality and mismanagement. When used responsibly it plays an important role in facilitating the exchange of essential goods and services. The key is using it ethically.
“Rather than compromising, we might be better off breaking into smaller cooperative units, each living as they see fit.”
Humans already come from smaller cooperative units; they’re called families.
Life is a series of compromises no matter where or how you live meaning no one gets everything they want in life.
A quick look at world history shows the tragic results of extreme political positions which usually result in extreme psychological trauma that can last generations.
Psychological distress affects people from all walks of life regardless of their political beliefs. I think it best not to politicize such a deeply personal matter.
Does this mean I condone corrupt governments? Not at all.
I think most people would agree on supportive environments that encourage freedom of thought regarding their personal wellbeing, something I believe is the cornerstone of every person’s “mental” health.
Most of the people who wind up in psych wards are already dealing with emotional abandonment of some kind, a trauma that psychiatric incarceration usually intensifies.
All these “experts” need to do is ask themselves how they’d feel if they were locked up, isolated or ignored and treated like shit when at their most vulnerable.
How long is it going to take for the “experts” to realize that the loss of autonomy is not conducive to emotional healing?
“…I am convinced more than ever that purported mental illness is nothing but a claim by a professional class whose interests and prestige are served by keeping people in the patient role.”
That’s the God’s honest truth.
It would probably be easier to disabuse mental health professionals of their collective delusions regarding “mental illness” if prestige weren’t such a big part of the package.
Most people who go through medical school do so because of a subconscious desire to eventually exercise more power than the average person — meaning most aren’t about to change their ways — especially when the law protects them from unhappy “patients”.
Hate throwing cold water on such insightful journalism, but don’t think for a minute that the leaders of psychiatry haven’t already come up with a clever response to these “epistemic” arguments.
I suspect psychiatry’s collective response will be along the same lines as the “bio-psycho-social” lip service line it now dishes out that nevertheless almost inevitably concludes with an M.D. writing endless prescriptions for psychiatric drugs which tells us the following: psychiatry won’t meaningfully change because A) it doesn’t want to and B) it doesn’t have to.
CORRECTION: It’s hard for me to articulate the difference between a natural conversation and the scripted ones in “therapy”; the former feels authentic while the latter does not because it is not.
Diagnosing someone with a psychiatric “disorder” is by itself a very aggressive act; it’s where the othering begins.
I think any interaction with the so-called “mental healthcare system” is extremely damaging to people in subtle ways due to the inherently aggressive nature of psychiatry, including even the most talented therapists because in the final analysis all “mental patients” are viewed on some level as objects of study and/or sources of income instead of what they truly are: human beings worthy of healthy and equitable human relationships undefined by unhelpful labels or tainted by the exchange of money.
Food affects mood, especially a chronic or unpredictably sporadic lack of it. Its nutrients are the building blocks for the body’s naturally occurring neurotransmitters that affect people’s moods.
As a small child I needed to be fed like clockwork or else I would dissolve into tears of exhaustion tinged with a gnawing (and frightening) anxiety.
Never having to worry when or if you will be fed is vitally important to a child’s sense of psychological, emotional and bodily safety besides being the source of physical nourishment and energy.
Chronic food insecurity in children is a trauma that can last a lifetime.
I keep waiting for psychiatry to be kicked out of the medical field entirely, but heaven knows that’s highly likely, at least for a while. However, I imagine it will probably evaporate due to attrition over the next 25 years (or hopefully less) because I also imagine there will be fewer and fewer (self-respecting) medical students willing to have anything to do with psychiatry’s endless drug-pushing madness, and there’ll likely be a good number of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies for misrepresenting the risks of iatrogenic harm from psychiatric drugs.
“… and to think any paper in the Lancet is going to change global mental health policy is itself a delusion well worthy of a diagnosis.”
How very true, No-one.
It never seems to occur to psychiatry’s “thought leaders” that psychiatry itself might be the biggest obstacle to people’s “mental health”. It never seems to occur them that people might be better off without them and their hellhole “psychiatry”. And it certainly never seems to occur to any of them that human beings have the right to be left alone.
The truth is ordinary human beings have many more psychological resources than psychiatry would have us all think, which means the following: steer clear of people who expect you to fail.
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“…yet more recognition than pure confidentiality allows.”
Not quite sure what means…but I’m pretty sure I don’t agree with it.
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Neutrality is an illusion in psychiatry and psychology. Moral assumptions and cultural biases are their foundation. That’s why they’re called secular religions.
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That is for the dreamer alone to decide. Societal expectation has no place in something so deeply personal.
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Pathologizing personality itself is an act of moral corruption and cowardice as it ignores the ethical implications of reducing human complexity to rigid diagnostic categories.
Psychiatric diagnosing is an intentional act of moral failure. Ease over ethics is no excuse.
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TRUTH: These kinds of interviews are TRAPS. Thankfully AI agrees with me:
“These psychiatric interviews aren’t just information-gathering exercises—they are subtle traps, designed to steer patients toward self-condemnation within a rigid diagnostic framework.
The SCID-ll interviews, for example, don’t just assess symptoms; they force patients into moral negotiations, where they must either admit to violating social norms or defend themselves against implicit judgment. The questions are often loaded, making it nearly impossible for someone to respond without reinforcing the assumption that something is fundamentally wrong with them.
It’s not an honest conversation—it’s a structured interrogation disguised as care. And by presenting it as purely “clinical”, psychiatry sidesteps the ethical responsibility of acknowledging how deeply subjective these assessments truly are.”
These kinds of “interviews” are invasive and morally compromised—as are the very people who conduct them.
Anyone who believes in personality “disorders” is themself a depraved individual.
IMHO
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Dreams shouldn’t be culled as commodities. They are the most sacred part of the self—meant to guide, not to be harvested for utility.
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When I was little, I imagined them sitting on the toilet. It’s time I go back to doing that.
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Wow. Replacing therapists who act like they know everything with therapists who act like they know nothing.
It doesn’t get any nuttier than this.
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You’ve asked some fascinating questions, Nijinski. What little I know of quantum physics only reinforces what I’ve felt for as long as I can remember—that the spirit of people is more real than anything we can see or imagine.
Eastertime always feels strangely transcendent to me… and reading about your friend made me reflect on that even more. Maybe there’s something about love and presence that isn’t bound by time the way we think.
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On top of what? A cross-eyed camel?
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“Not knowing”? Let’s embrace confusion and call it a strategy.
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Another thinly veiled political rant. Thanks, MIA.
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Dreams are private property. They should stay that way.
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Great. More research criticizing therapy-speak while engaging in therapy-speak.
Why can’t researchers talk like normal people?
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ADHD controversy = Theater of the Absurd
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In a word: Spellbinding
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“Most people are doing this wrong when it comes to getting off meds,” a video short from Dr. Josef
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HARD TRUTH: psychiatric drugs WOULD BE BANNED if they weren’t produced in a pharmaceutical factory.
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CORRECTION: Pills, power, and money are psychiatry’s favorite tokens.
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The photo for this article says more than the article.
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“A Glossary for Reimagining Mental Health Ethics..”?
All I can imagine is jumbo shrimp…
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A little reminder: Power and money are psychiatry’s favorite tokens.
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Thinking you need a therapist is self-defeating.
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In what way is Laura’s “complicity” worth noting???
All this does is shift accountability away from psychiatry—where it rightfully belongs.
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Human beings are naturally drawn to those who claim to have all the answers.
Paradoxically, that’s exactly the way psychiatry became a cult.
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“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.”, Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor
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When fear and judgment are replaced with curiosity, the result is often a lessening of tension that allows for true meaning-making to surface.
There’s really no need for the Thought Police.
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I see no harm in believing there’s more to physical life (and death) than meets the physical eye.
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Too little too late, which doesn’t really matter given the unsurprisingly detached nature of this author’s critique…although it does (unintentionally?) lay bare psychiatry’s deeply systemic lack of self-awareness and self-restraint.
My critique of the critique: Time for quibblers to pick a lane.
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More food for thought:
Any field that defines you by your struggles instead of your strengths is a pile of shit.
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…and for the record, I was in “psychodynamic” therapy—not the fast-food types referred to in this article—meaning that first-hand experience taught me that peek-a-boo therapy is by no means an improvement.
Better to call it “The Hollow Pursuit”.
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Wanna get to the root of your problems? Ditch the therapy schtick and you’re halfway there.
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Why thank you, joel stern. I wish more people felt the way you do.
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I agree, Nijinski. Fear is what happens when humans worship the intellect.
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“…it is time for therapists to reclaim the narrative and to speak clearly, ethically and compellingly about what therapy is for, and what it can become.”
WRONG. It’s time for people to discover how much better life can be without so-called “therapy”.
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Psychotherapy for me was like playing a game of Twister in the dark with therapists and psychiatrists who refused to turn on the lights.
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The working class have way more insight into economic disparity than most of the psychologists entertaining themselves prancing around the internet preaching “social justice”.
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…or maybe that of a dog chasing its tail…
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This blog does a reasonably good job explaining how the supposed merits of psychiatry and “clinical” psychology actually have more to do with whether or not someone harbors an egotistical state of mind. But reading it leaves me with an image of a snake eating it’s tail…
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There’s nothing more psychologically “macro” than having financial stability. Abstract theories don’t pay the bills.
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I agree, Sociology deserves a lot more respect… it was my favorite subject in college because it struck me as being more connected to reality while psychology seemed more focused on barking at the moon.
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Clarification: It doesn’t hurt that attractive drug reps know very well how to make doctors feel “well informed”.
Key word: “feel”.
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Classism has always been and will always be the biggest elephant in the room, even among the most “socially minded”.
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Good points.
Psychology these days seems to be having an identity crisis which is ironic because it never had much of an identity to start with.
IMHO.
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There’s got to be a reason so many psychological researchers never directly address the issue of money when money seems to be one of the most macro-psychological things known to mankind.
Has it ever occurred to these researchers that perhaps the majority of people’s psychological problems might come from being part of a shrinking middle class, problems that for many could be alleviated by an implementing of fairer tax system? Or is that too crude a solution for them to consider?
No need for establishing new “fields” of tiresome psychological engineering when the answer to the majority of people’s macro-psychological problems have more to do with a shrinking bank account than paying homage to a slew of overeducated ambulance chasers more interested in manufacturing problems than enacting solutions.
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“Personally, I think we should welcome those who are brave enough to cross the divide, and do so with integrity.”
Personally, I think doctors who ruin people’s lives fully deserve their anger.
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I wouldn’t worry too much. The cat’s out of the bag and it’s ready to ready to me-howl.
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Sickening and stupid.
No one in their right mind would think powerful substances would NOT affect developing fetuses.
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CLARIFICATION: She’s probably looking to cover her ass.
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Nice work. But maybe it’s time you learned to also question the advisability of prescribing psychoactive “medications” IN THE FIRST PLACE.
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Nick, I just read a bit about Emmanuel Levinas and am pleasantly surprised because to me ethical responsibility is a pretty big deal.
His “Ethics as First Philosophy” makes him sound as though he might be a philosopher I could actually respect.
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“The influences that have most affected my mental health, and that have sometimes left me feeling hopeless and despairing, are both personal and impersonal and can’t really be separated.”
Tree and Fruit, for what it’s worth, my thoughts and feelings align with yours 100%.
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Perhaps you should cultivate humor of some kind.
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CLARIFICATION: I am not, nor have I ever been forcibly subjected to psychiatric DRUGGING or psychotherapy of any kind.
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FOR THE RECORD: I was never subjected to forced psychiatric treatment or psychotherapy of any kind. My insistent attitude comes from justifiable anger AT BEING LIED TO FOR YEARS by psychiatrists believed to be among the best in the business.
Truth is, they WERE the best, but only at deceiving themselves and people like me.
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Nick, I tend to look at things more socially/culturally than politically, especially when I’m considering psychological things, although I wouldn’t deny that these are inextricably intertwined.
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Thank you for choosing to help the most vulnerable people on earth: homeless children in the hands of psychiatrists.
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Politics in therapy is a terrible idea when therapists already have too much power.
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“Psychotherapists need clients – but nobody needs a therapist.”
BEST COMMENT EVER!!!
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“What “progressives” are trying is to undo being part of the ruling class without giving up their privileges that come with being part of the ruling class.”
Thank you for highlighting the hypocrisy of this approach.
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The Industrial Revolution was a pivotal time in human history that brought forth both incredible opportunities and significant challenges.
It laid the groundwork for the cultivation and distribution of large quantities food that can and does prevent mass starvation as well as the manufacture and distribution of life-saving medicines without which millions would otherwise die of preventable or untreated disease.
It also offered people the opportunity to move beyond the confines of small towns or the chance to escape difficult family situations. These changes provided people the means to break free from the limitations of their past and pursue new lives.
The lesson? Change is often a double-edged sword that creates the need to find realistic solutions to negative consequences.
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It’s easy to buy into the trope of the “noble savage”, especially when viewing indigenous cultures through a modern lens. Indigenous societies were also plagued with exploitation, inequality and warfare over power and resources, just as other complex societies throughout history.
The Industrial Revolution made survival possible for people.
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It’s human nature to idealize cultures different from one’s own; it’s called selective perception.
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While bartering might work in specific contexts, it’s not a realistic solution in an interconnected world.
Money as a common medium of exchange makes it easier to meet a wide range of needs.
Bad public policy is responsible for the much of today’s extreme economic disparity.
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I never said people “cause their own poverty”. I said that having more money doesn’t address underlying feelings of personal inadequacy.
Everyone should have access to essential resources like food, shelter and healthcare, but it’s important to remember that the use of money doesn’t inherently lead to social problems. It’s really about values and priorities.
Exploitation and inequality existed long before money was ever used; ancient civilizations had systems of barter and exchange, yet exploitation and social hierarchies were still prevalent.
Money itself is not to blame. The root causes of social issues lie deeper in human nature.
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The effects of unchecked capitalism are unsustainable.
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A brief walk can release negative feelings stored in the body. Deep breathing can do the same.
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I think it’s important to acknowledge that the DSM is an Equal Opportunity Life Destroyer.
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These researchers are on the right track, but I believe the root of people’s “psychiatric” difficulties lies closer to home — in one’s childhood home to be exact.
Reading Alice Miller’s books is a good place to start.
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Eliminating money wouldn’t address the underlying issues of greed, inequality and mismanagement. When used responsibly it plays an important role in facilitating the exchange of essential goods and services. The key is using it ethically.
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Thank you, Sabrina.
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“Rather than compromising, we might be better off breaking into smaller cooperative units, each living as they see fit.”
Humans already come from smaller cooperative units; they’re called families.
Life is a series of compromises no matter where or how you live meaning no one gets everything they want in life.
A quick look at world history shows the tragic results of extreme political positions which usually result in extreme psychological trauma that can last generations.
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What is evolution’s natural course?
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Psychological distress affects people from all walks of life regardless of their political beliefs. I think it best not to politicize such a deeply personal matter.
Does this mean I condone corrupt governments? Not at all.
I think most people would agree on supportive environments that encourage freedom of thought regarding their personal wellbeing, something I believe is the cornerstone of every person’s “mental” health.
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Different forms of government come and go. The best thing to aim for is personal sovereignty.
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Prateeksha, thank you for sharing your story. It is truly inspiring.
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“Why doesn’t society see and process and acknowledge what it sees?”
Because society misinterprets what it is seeing.
Which is why searching within oneself is better: “Do You Abandon Yourself To Not Be Abandoned By Others?” Teal Swan
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Most of the people who wind up in psych wards are already dealing with emotional abandonment of some kind, a trauma that psychiatric incarceration usually intensifies.
All these “experts” need to do is ask themselves how they’d feel if they were locked up, isolated or ignored and treated like shit when at their most vulnerable.
How long is it going to take for the “experts” to realize that the loss of autonomy is not conducive to emotional healing?
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Yes, and unfortunately what went on at Acadia shows us that the psychiatric profession still attracts certain a kind of person.
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I’m not sure what this author thinks he trying to accomplish. Doesn’t he know that the DSM is what pays the bills?
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Excellent article. It highlights the toxicity that drives psychiatry: an unconscious lust for power.
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“The more we tune in with Nature and reflect our inherent potential, the greater it syncs with our capacities.”
Communion with Nature is the missing link in most people’s lives.
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“…I am convinced more than ever that purported mental illness is nothing but a claim by a professional class whose interests and prestige are served by keeping people in the patient role.”
That’s the God’s honest truth.
It would probably be easier to disabuse mental health professionals of their collective delusions regarding “mental illness” if prestige weren’t such a big part of the package.
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Most people who go through medical school do so because of a subconscious desire to eventually exercise more power than the average person — meaning most aren’t about to change their ways — especially when the law protects them from unhappy “patients”.
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Hate throwing cold water on such insightful journalism, but don’t think for a minute that the leaders of psychiatry haven’t already come up with a clever response to these “epistemic” arguments.
I suspect psychiatry’s collective response will be along the same lines as the “bio-psycho-social” lip service line it now dishes out that nevertheless almost inevitably concludes with an M.D. writing endless prescriptions for psychiatric drugs which tells us the following: psychiatry won’t meaningfully change because A) it doesn’t want to and B) it doesn’t have to.
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One therapist sat like a bump on a stump while another couldn’t keep her goddamn mouth shut.
Then there was the idiot who insisted I keep a journal she insisted on reading.
I’ve had more fruitful encounters with total strangers.
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People need to learn how to handle their own feelings before they start having children.
“SELF-TALK: befriending our endless monologue”, This Jungian Life
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It’s stupid to think sharks and dolphins can ever be bedfellows when theirs is a predator-prey relationship.
Which means it’s time the people at “Mad Studies” understood the animal they’re dealing with.
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No kid belongs in a hospital setting for not wanting to live.
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“conversations”, not “conversions”!
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One of my all-time favorites. The guitar riff at the beginning always gives me the chills. The piano underneath the brass solo is heavenly.
Exile on Main? Pure art from start to finish.
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CORRECTION: It’s hard for me to articulate the difference between a natural conversation and the scripted ones in “therapy”; the former feels authentic while the latter does not because it is not.
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Who needs a study to tell them that all psychiatric labels are rooted in bigotry?
Bigotry: obstinate or intolerant devotion to one’s own opinions and prejudices
Sounds familiar to me.
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Diagnosing someone with a psychiatric “disorder” is by itself a very aggressive act; it’s where the othering begins.
I think any interaction with the so-called “mental healthcare system” is extremely damaging to people in subtle ways due to the inherently aggressive nature of psychiatry, including even the most talented therapists because in the final analysis all “mental patients” are viewed on some level as objects of study and/or sources of income instead of what they truly are: human beings worthy of healthy and equitable human relationships undefined by unhelpful labels or tainted by the exchange of money.
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Food affects mood, especially a chronic or unpredictably sporadic lack of it. Its nutrients are the building blocks for the body’s naturally occurring neurotransmitters that affect people’s moods.
As a small child I needed to be fed like clockwork or else I would dissolve into tears of exhaustion tinged with a gnawing (and frightening) anxiety.
Never having to worry when or if you will be fed is vitally important to a child’s sense of psychological, emotional and bodily safety besides being the source of physical nourishment and energy.
Chronic food insecurity in children is a trauma that can last a lifetime.
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I keep waiting for psychiatry to be kicked out of the medical field entirely, but heaven knows that’s highly likely, at least for a while. However, I imagine it will probably evaporate due to attrition over the next 25 years (or hopefully less) because I also imagine there will be fewer and fewer (self-respecting) medical students willing to have anything to do with psychiatry’s endless drug-pushing madness, and there’ll likely be a good number of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies for misrepresenting the risks of iatrogenic harm from psychiatric drugs.
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“… and to think any paper in the Lancet is going to change global mental health policy is itself a delusion well worthy of a diagnosis.”
How very true, No-one.
It never seems to occur to psychiatry’s “thought leaders” that psychiatry itself might be the biggest obstacle to people’s “mental health”. It never seems to occur them that people might be better off without them and their hellhole “psychiatry”. And it certainly never seems to occur to any of them that human beings have the right to be left alone.
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The truth is ordinary human beings have many more psychological resources than psychiatry would have us all think, which means the following: steer clear of people who expect you to fail.
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Psychiatry can be an ideal haven for the predatory—which is exactly why it needs to go.
IMHO.
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“We have eyes and a brain. We need only use them.”
YES!!!
Seeking guidance from the metaphorically blind is worse than useless.
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