@JDaviesPhD only one - have you been on Dr Jess Taylors page? She thinks psychosis is made up to get abusers and murderers out of prison. You can disagree with framing something as schizophrenia, but that's not what she's doing, she's saying the entire experience doesnt exist. (2/2)
@JDaviesPhD McFillin just wrote an article describing mental illness as a moral failure rather than a condition of distress or suffering. You can't say "no one denies it" when you've got prominent professionals literally posting "perhaps you're just an asshole?" And he's not the (1/
An AI detector suggested a 94% chance that this "article" was entirely AI-generated. Have you outsourced your bigotry to ChatGPT? If you're gonna spout harmful rhetoric and attack vulnerable people, at least have the decency to do it yourself.
"It wasn't me. It was my mania," a client told me once, explaining an affair. Desire became "hypersexuality." The lies and hotel rooms became "impulsivity." The fallout became "emotional lability" โ Bipolar II, diagnosed in fifteen minutes, no prior history of mania, right after she blew up a twelve-year marriage.
I asked her: "What if you weren't out of control? What if you were making choices โ terrible, destructive choices โ but choices nonetheless?"
The silence in that room said everything.
This is what modern psychiatry has mastered: transforming conscious choices into involuntary symptoms, moral failings into neurochemical misfirings, and the natural consequences of our actions into evidence of disease.
The DSM had 106 labels in 1952. Today it has nearly 300. Did humans suddenly develop 200 new ways to be mentally ill? Or did the psychiatric industrial complex develop 200 new ways to pathologize normal human experience and profit from convincing you your personality is a disease?
Take the client who sat in my office after years of therapy, drugs, and a stack of diagnoses that read like a medical textbook's greatest hits tour. He said something I almost never hear anymore:
"I'm a jerk. I'm selfish. I want things my way all the time. When people don't give me what I want, I lash out and hurt them. I get irritable. A lot of people don't like me. I don't like me. Help me break this cycle, doc."
No bipolar disorder to hide behind. No ADHD excuse. No treatment-resistant depression to blame. Just raw, uncomfortable self-awareness.
You have Borderline Personality Disorder, so your emotional volatility isn't your fault. You have ADHD, so you can't keep commitments. You have Bipolar Disorder, so that explains the maxed-out credit cards.
Every time we use a label to explain away behavior instead of confront it, we destroy someone's belief in their own capacity to change. We've replaced transformation with resignation, and we charge $200 a session for the privilege.
Why did you have the affair? "Because I have Bipolar Disorder." How do we know? "Because I had the affair." That's not science. That's circular logic with a prescription pad attached.
And it's not just adults rewriting their choices as chemistry. I've sat with parents explaining their son's job losses and drug use as "self-medicating undiagnosed depression" โ diagnosed in fifteen minutes, after his third firing. What never made it into the chart: a childhood of nannies, after-school programs, and vacations interrupted by work calls. Every material need met. Emotional presence treated as optional.
He didn't need another diagnosis. He needed the truth.
Same goes for the phone in your pocket. "My ADHD is so bad, I can't focus on anything." How many hours a day are you on your phone? They check: 8 hours and 37 minutes. Yesterday alone.
Your brain is getting bombarded with algorithmic dopamine hits for eight and a half hours a day. You check your phone roughly 140 times daily. And the theory is that your inability to focus is a neurodevelopmental disorder?
Your brain isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed โ responding predictably to the environment you built for it.
That's not a diagnosis. That's a doorway.
AWAKEN.
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Today is 6 months since I left the house. This isnt the first or even the longest time I've been indoors. I dont even know why it happens, I just slowly withdraw into myself until one day I stop and realise its been months since I stepped out the door. I wish #agoraphobia (1/4)
@looneyfox_1 Seems like a moral judgement on wanting pain relief - like we should just grit our teeth through it and needing more than that makes us weak
I mean, isnt the fact you're going to a professional for help often due to the fact that you *cant* cope with the pain or torment any more. If you were fine with it, why go? Professionals dont go door to door giving out pills - we go to them and ask for help..?
To all the therapists & medical professionals recommending antidepressants to "take the edge off" or "lesson pain". Who are you to say that person is incapable of dealing with that pain? Who are you to fragilize them in this way? Don't give me some bullshit answer about suicide since these drugs increase that risk. Why are you the arbiter of what someone can and can't handle. That entire ideas has consequences that you are not accounting for.
@gingertedwards Every day drags, like you can literally feel the slow grinding of time, but also somehow it moves so fast, like suddenly you blink and its been 6 months or a year since you went out. I'm sorry you have the same experience xxx โค๏ธ๐ซ
@XanderCoriander I read this and I'm agoraphobic too, have been for over 12 years. I created a blog because I felt exactly like you do, no one was talking about it or they were all cured and I couldn't relate. I also vlog about it occasionally. You're not alone. https://t.co/jPrBj2FaiB
@ColouringITMOM "my world has shrunk to be unimaginably small. The person I once was is (I hope) hiding, but it feels like sheโs gone. All of the things Iโve done in the past [..] no longer feel like something I did" - this resonates so much with me, its like reading my own words โค๏ธ
@looneyfox_1 They think you're just lazy or unmotivated, as if there isnt some kind of huge psychic wall between me and the world which I don't know how to break through.
This is called a semantic shift and not only isnt it "purposeful manipulation" to make people depressed, it actually works to harm people with depression, as the gross parts of depression get hidden & dismissed until you end up with even more stigma and shame.
The word "depression" has completely lost its meaning. It's now used to describe any painful experience. We have lost our ability to communicate suffering. Young people do not even use the word "sad" anymore... everything is "I'm depressed".
This is purposeful manipulation.