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  1. CW: Speciesism, Patriarchy, Christianity, Islam, White Supremacy, Sex Negativity, Cisheteromononormativity, Ageism, Ableism, Psychiatry, Zionism, Anarchism, Capitalism, Cryptocurrency, Pornography, Sex Work, Masturbation, Sexual, Drugs, Prisons, Pedophilia

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    Edit: I'm appending more examples from the bottom of the list so you can review your favourite/boost

    I often get the feeling that most of you would unfollow if you read all my posts and replies and honestly I'm fine with that so I'm going to just state a bunch of my controversial opinions now to rip off the bandaid

    Eating other animals is murder and paying for their flesh and secretions is the same as hiring an assassin

    Billions of land animals are killed every year for human taste preference (trillions if you count weight estimates from sea creatures): there is no greater injustice past or present and there is therefore little to no suffering that could possibly fall upon humans as a result of correcting this that would ever not be worth it.

    Dogs and cats can be vegan with supplemented diets for taurine for example

    Its in my bio but the bible and the quran both advocate killing queer people so there is no way to call them good sources of morality.

    Speciesist language that establishes a moral hierarchy of species or perpetuates depersonalizing or deindividualizing stereotypes are harmful and there is no good reason to use them: such as chicken pig weasel dog cow snake rat inhuman, "animal" (as insult or as a way to imply humans aren't animals) many such examples dm for a long txt

    Sex negative language hurts women and queer people most such as fuck, blow/suck, dick, pussy, jerk-off, slut/tart/whore

    White supremacy, patriarchy, cisheteromononormativity, ageism and ableism are real. Representation matters.

    Children can be trans and they deserve gender affirming care especially hormone blockers which are themselves the compromise in this discussion as they are reversible

    Children are widely regarded as property, status symbols or as a pets to satisfy the parent's desires and generally speaking aren't given enough rights for example freedom of association freedom of speech freedom of movement

    Schools are prisons designed to instill unquestioning obedience to arbitrary authority more than anything else. They teach children that their free time is never truly theirs that they should be dedicating their life to the institution that knowledge and truth comes from authority not inquiry and, in schools with uniforms, that self expression is dangerous and will be punished

    Borders kill for no good reason, they don't stop international crime but they do prevent periphery citizens from attempting to flee to the imperial core that is pillaging them. It is far easier for a citizen of the imperial core to get a passport almost anywhere in the world than it is for someone in the periphery to get a visa in the imperial core. Borders are the primary cause of modern slavery.

    Any citizen of a country in the imperial core is a beneficiary of neocolonialism.

    The vast majority of people believe one or more of the justifying myths of kyriarchy, by that I mean that they have beliefs that are either white supremacist human supermacist misogynist ableist queermisic ageist cisheteromononormative etc.

    Private property is theft. Here I am using the socialist definition of private property: when your boss takes a tax off your work and gives you back a fraction of the value you create that is theft

    Money in any system creates an exponential power imbalance and will lead to systems of domination

    Actually private cryptocurrency like Monero XMR (not bitcoin or ethereum) is a reasonable engagement with money for anarchist praxis and as an anti surveillence and anti censorship technique

    There is no justifiable use case for generative AI in programming or as part of any other creative output

    Signal App is not censorship resistant or anonymous enough to facilitate revolutionary organization and something decentralized like SimpleX, Cwtch or Briar is preferable.

    I2P>Tor (for hosting hidden servers) as its more censorship resistant

    Hierarchical organization will produce societies with hierarchical power structures and is antithetical to the ideals of socialism: ie: marxism leninism is wrong and counter productive and you should all be anarchists.

    Israel has no right to exist, nor does any country, but israel is built on colonialism and genocide just like the United States of America, Austrailia, New Zealand, South Africa etc. and as such israel shot first. There is no moral equivalence between genocidal violence and liberatory armed resistance.

    Psychiatry as a field is first and foremost an immune response from kyriarchy to individualize social problems and medicalize anti authoritarian tendancies. veganism.social/@ambiguous_yel

    Pets exist for the benefit of humans not non-humans who have their reproduction controlled and monitored for profit and are separated from their families kept in isolation a lot of the time and punished for displaying natural behaviours or for having mental health problems.

    Sex work deserves no less respect than modelling or athleticism.

    Pornography and masturbation doesn't atrophy your brain you fell for a christian misinformation campaign

    Pedophiles need therapy, killing them or putting them in prison just discourages people from getting help

    Drug addiction is a health issue and largely a matter of bodily autonomy especially when done in private. Criminalizing drugs makes the drugs themself and accessing them more dangerous and discourages people from seeking professional help

    Prisons are universities of crime and countries that focus on rehabilitation have lowest recidivism rates

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  2. CW: Non-hypothetical child abuse, sexual assault reference

    This conversation is also how I found out one of my friends almost ended up in the most infamous mental institution of their state, for the crime of being an autistic child, but lucked out because they weren't accepting new patients in the 90's. Because they were slowly shutting down. Because of all the rape and patient death.

    You know, I think sometimes that I couldn't get more #antipsychiatry, and I need to stop that hubris. It's always possible. There's always another story.

  3. Any kind of work which doesn't produce immediate products such as political science, philosophy, history, and even mathematics science and medicine (including psychiatry) will be overwhelmingly paid for by the people with the most money and those will be the hegemonic institutions - therefore these oft self described scientific and unbiased fields will actually have a heavy bias towards protecting the hegemonic source of their funding. Money ruins everything it touches.

    One such example of this is institutional carnism expressed through science and medicine as talked about by melanie joy

    But my broader takeaway from this thought (which is probably not original and something that gramsci talked about) is that no space within the system is free from hegemonic cultural capture - integration with and especially power within the system implies some kind of moral compromise that's a reason why anarchists propose dual power structures instead.

    P.S. Philosophy of maths can have political connotations in the metaphysical assumptions it does or doesn't make

    #Anarchism #Hegemony #Gramsci #Carnism #MelanieJoy #Psychiatry #AntiPsychiatry #Maths #History #Philosophy #PoliticalScience #Medicine #DualPower

  4. i feel like, too often, all the advice we give/receive for dealing with our struggles is based in uncritical acceptance of social atomization as a fact of life, a law of the universe.

    that painful void is left where social connection should be and it can’t be filled with consumer goods or shame. #socialatomization #alienation #socialdeath #neoliberalism #competitiveindividualism #consumerism #individualism #antipsych #antipsychiatry #solidarity #communitybuilding #socialconnection #lonelinessepidemic #disability #harmreduction #substanceuse #depression #mentalhealth #behavioralhealth

  5. CW: question about anti-psychiatry

    The author of the book I'm currently reading claims that anti-psychiatry is bad and incompatible with the concept of neurodiversity, but I think that this is just due to a lack of knowledge about anti-psychiatry on his side. Is anyone here familiar with anti-psychiatry and able to answer me that (and maybe even give me some pointers to articles/books/videos/… about anti-psychiatry)?

    #antipsychiatry #mad

  6. In 2018, my Dad passed away, and I went to India. As I was kneeling by his dead body, grieving, my brother thrust a bunch of blank sheets of paper in front of my face, and said, "Sign these. They are for the division of property, and I need your power of attorney. It's just a formality." I was not thinking clearly at this point, and trusted him enough to sign the blank papers.

    In 2022, I was visiting India again, and my brother and my mother told me that I was not getting anything out of my Dad's inheritance, and that I had signed it all over to them. This came as a shock!

    I returned to America, and saw an American psychiatrist. She told me that I seemed fine, and tapered down my pills to zero, over some time, under her periodic supervision.

    Immediately, my thinking cleared up. A mental fog lifted. Suddenly, I was thinking as lucidly and effortlessly, as I am used to, as I did in 2008, 14 years ago.

    Since then, I fell out with my mother and brother. When I fell on hard times as a whistleblower, they would not help me. My brother was drinking expensive whiskey over a video call, as he refused to lend me even $30. He said he had a party to go to.

    Later, when I had been homeless and starving for days, he agreed to give me $1000 , after demanding that I email him, saying I would drop the matter of Dad's inheritance.

    I want to warn people against Dr. R. N. Sahu and his psychiatric malpractice.

    #bhopal #india #malpractice #medicalMalpractice #Psychiatry #AntiPsychiatry #law #legal #Medicine #Doctor

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  7. Reading a paper surveying the history of #antipsychiatry, I notice the same defensive tone I found so off-putting in right-wing criticism of leftist political literature: lots of “ironic” quote marks and barely disguised disparaging comments that are borderline ad-hominem fallacies. The line of reasoning is defensive of psychiatry itself rather than curious about how critique might improve treatment for the individual. #psychiatry #mentalhealth

  8. Allen Frances:

    • ⁠"There is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bullshit. I mean, you just can’t define it."

    #quote #quotes #antipsychiatry

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

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

    #quote #quotes #antipsychiatry

  10. Allen Frances: (The chairman in charge of creating 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"

    #quote #quotes #antipsychiatry

  11. By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, [psychiatrists] establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.

    Thomas Szasz, The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997), p. 167.

    #quote #quotes #antipsychiatry

  12. Diagnosing people as mad has more to do with social control than therapy. Many of those labeled as schizophrenic, bipolar, and other kinds of "mad" are not ill. ... They are seeing and feeling what is wrong with society and what needs to be done to change it.

    Seth Farber, The Spiritual Gift of Madness: The Failure of Psychiatry and the Rise of the Mad Pride Movement (2012), back matter

    #quote #quotes #antipsychiatry

  13. once someone thinks there's something (mentally) wrong with you there is nothing you can do to convince them otherwise

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  14. it's actually insane how we have Jail and then Jail 2 which is like Jail but you can lie to send someone there and also send children there where they stay indefinitely until it's decided they can be let out again

    And then if they displease you you can lie to send them there again

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  15. Psychiatry is an extension of the carceral state and your adherence to the DSM5's rules won't save you from its oppression.

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  16. "Therapists are usually safe they're there to help give you a new perspective" Survivorship Bias Detected

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  17. if you want a look at how psychiatrists feel about their patients just spend 5 minutes on r/psychiatry and prepare to be sadly unsurprised

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  18. remember that ACAB includes therapists and psychiatrists. even if your provider is leftist, even if they say you can trust them, they still by law have to incarcerate you if you are “too” suicidal. they work for a system that risks them losing their jobs if they choose their patient’s humanity over forced hospitalization.

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  19. Nobody, including people you dislike, should be institutionalized. There is no excuse for anyone to face psychiatric abuse!

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  20. psych wards treating people like they're disordered or unstable for not wanting to be locked up and have their every waking moment scrutinized should really be all you need to know to realize they don't exist to help people.

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  21. "They should have been bullied more."

    The idea that some people deserve or need to be traumatized and abused into being "fixed" is also the same principle behind why abuse is such a widely accepted component in the treatment of disabled and pathologized people. Just in case you didn't know.

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  22. I personally think it’s fucked that people have been traumatized by institutions marketed as places of healing/rehabilitation time and time again.

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  23. if you're against incarceration then you have to be against psychiatric incarceration. you cannot pick and choose who "deserves" to be incarcerated.

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  24. In my experience, 'mental health advocates' and the mental health institution are guilty of way more fearmongering than their critics or victims.

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  25. “Omg I can’t believe you could be so anti recovery 🥺” and it’s just someone with a diagnosis making the choice to not take medication

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  26. “You don’t get a good grade for being cooperative in therapy!” No but the bad grade is being forcefully institutionalized I fear

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  27. so weird to me when people use "anti-psych" like a gottcha moment? like an insult? like yeah i'm anti-psych it's literally just an opinion based on my negative experiences???

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  28. the entire "things will get better" "permanent solution to a temporary problem" "they weren't/aren't thinking clearly" "you're not in your right mind" are all forms of gaslighting

    #antipsychology #antipsychiatry #classwar #ausgov #politas

  29. @megamushroom ha i thought this was a joke when I first saw it I was like "yeah that is basically what psychiatry is they selectively diagnose based on how disruptive you are to the social order" and I was bewildered to learn that no it is real it is literally this explicit.

    #Antipsychiatry #Leftism #Anarchism #TotalLiberation #Sanism

  30. CW: mental health

    Banning under 16s from social media because "studies show social media causes xyz" is a perfect example of the mistake of individualizing social problems bleeding out from psychiatry to society at large

    If social media makes people under 16 depressed have eating disorders or generally lose executive function or other effects like these its probably affecting a lot of people over 16 too.

    I challenge you to think of anything we would lose in society by fixing this for everyone without blanket banning or surveillance

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    #Censorship #YouthLiberation #Psychiatry #AntiPsychiatry #Depression #EatingDisorder #SocialMediaBan #Australia

  31. #MadLiterature
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    Written by Mad scholars, A Mad Turn explores the field of Mad Studies in theory and practice, and what Mad Studies can bring to academia and to other social institutions. What does it mean to “do” Mad Studies? What are the field’s intersections with disability justice, Mad justice, and gender and queer studies? This book is a bold step toward the Mad Studies yet-to-come—a Mad Studies that Mad people will build, twisting and turning and singing and dancing, a new realm of thinking-being-doing-knowing. Step into it with us.

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  32. If you support the abolishment of the police force but do not do the same for psychiatry, we call that a hypocrite.

    The psychiatric system isn't too far off the law enforcement. Both groups have the arbitrary power to take away your autonomy and isolate you for non-reasons. Both groups don't want the best for you.

    You may argue sure, your local therapist and your local D-tier newbie cop maybe didn't harm you.

    But truth be told... this is maybe like one good apple among an ocean of rotten fruits that poison the entire environment.

    Psychiatrists are the cops of medical system. Don't trust them just like you don't trust a cop.

    #madPride #mentalHealth #madPride2024 #antiPsychiatry #abolition #disability #disabled
  33. soundcloud.com/deathpanel/legi

    #AaronBushnell #AntiPsychiatry #Palestine #Madness

    "There's an argument to be made that we're all in one way or another being driven mad. In the so-called US, living in a "country" that is actively gaslighting us everyday, what happens to a person when they live in these ongoing conditions, where what they know to be true, deeply in their core, is denied and rejected and dismissed and ignored and pathologised repeatedly by individuals and communities and systems. >

  34. Still resentful of every single therapist or mental health worker I've ever interacted with - which were A LOT over the course of 20 years - for only ever encouraging bravery in the form of emotional vulnerability. If that. Some discouraged me or even got mad at me for expressing feelings.

    Yes, emotional vulnerability is important. And it is bravery. But we also need to be encouraged to be brave via actions. To stand up to abusers. To organise politically. To fight oppression and climate crises.

    I only started becoming brave after I stopped therapy. And my mental health is improving more rapidly than ever.

    #mh #mentalHealth #therapy #psychiatry #antiPsychiatry #madPride #madness #trauma #traumaRecovery #csaSurvivor

  35. #MadLiterature

    Empire of Normality
    Neurodiversity and Capitalism
    by Robert Chapman

    This is a priority read for me!

    I’m looking forward to how Chapman explains the emergence and rise of the pathology paradigm and its entanglement with the fundamental logic of capitalism. Specifically how the medical and scientific definitions of illness, disability, and normality have grown in response to economic and ideological developments.

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  36. Philosophy and Madness a combination that makes me smile!!!
    #MadLiterature
    Too mad to be true II - The promises and perils of the first-person perspective

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    The second Too Mad To Be True conference that was dedicated to exploring the various links between philosophy and madness. The atmosphere was vibrant and it initiated new ways of thinking and communicating around issues of madness and philosophy. The central theme was both relevant to philosophical and mad theories and practices: ' The promises and perils of the first-person perspective'. The conference was hybrid: both in person, in Ghent, Belgium, as well as online. 

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