Nick Taber

Focused on authoritarianism in the school system, mental health system, and families. Self-awareness & human potential. @nicktaber.bsky.social

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

My YouTube channel where I discuss:
- healing from authoritarian mental health institutions, families, and schools
- recovering your potential from the negative effects of conventional schooling
- the nature of rebellion in young people
https://t.co/mic7JjhCO8

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

The explosion of diagnosis of childhood psychiatric disorders isn’t an epidemic, it’s a liquidity event for the mental health and pharmaceutical industries.

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

@DrDoyleSays @DavidBradley34 Not only is there no shame in it, I think it speaks to great fortitude and gumption.

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

At a certain point, I realized I couldn’t get what I needed from the people I knew. So I started reading books and looked for heroes and found it there

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

There is zero shame in the people who have most shaped you in positive ways being people you've never met or don't know. Those of us who grew up in danger or toxicity didn't have a lot of real life role models, & characters & writers & celebrities filled the gap. Still do.

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

Some people realize the industrialized competition and comparison of children is a dead end when they’re in senior year of college, and everyone is competing for the same consulting jobs that their soul is screaming to them to avoid.

Others realize it’s a dead end in elementary school, then get labeled with a psychiatric disorder.

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

I know there’s this idea that we’ve ruined the young generation by “giving them trophies for coming in last.”

But I think the problem is kind of the opposite. There’s way too much competition and comparison, which is ultimately demoralizing. If the only way for me to win is for you to lose, that can ultimately be counterproductive for achievement and excellence.

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The tragedy of our regime of childhood

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@DrMcFillin

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Treating minors with psychedelics is an unbelievably horrible idea.

You don’t open up the floodgates of awareness in a context where your survival depends on remaining unaware.

[Scientific American @sciam]

The Trump administration has fast-tracked research into psychedelics, and experts say it is likely a matter of time before the drugs are used to treat minors
https://t.co/G5hgYWIIxe

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

Tell them about @angpeacock1111, @bftbpod, @DrJessTaylor, and countless others.

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

Ultimate power move for mental health professionals:

If you’re working with someone who’s super alienated in the mental health system (and maybe doesn’t even like you), let them know about the critical mental health world. Tell them about Mad in America, have them watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest, send them my YouTube channel/Twitter ;), tell them about @_innercompass.

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

The great march of progress is not complete until every corner of our minds and lives is entirely under clinical authority.

[Muel Mith @MithMuel]

Therapy is an outright impediment to life it corrodes autonomy and self reliance while purporting to bolster both

Practicing beyond the baseline restoration of a patients identity after abusive or (big T) traumatic situations is a form of parasitism

*Very few* therapists possess the necessary temperament and IQ to do more good than harm

The expansionist doctrine of therapy as a business model rhymes with the pervasiveness of gambling culture except that this vulture wipes the blood from its beak

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

@Careerflex @lololizzle Definitely good to try to exhaust some other options first. But I’m definitely not blanket against them either. Some people have no issues with them and feel that they benefit. I think the real problem is that psychiatry has given the finger to informed consent.

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

So incredible what @lololizzle sparked in the national conversation. Was an honor to speak alongside her.

[USA TODAY @USATODAY]

After stopping antidepressants, this 23-year-old said she experienced a “chemical castration." What to know about PSSD, according to experts. https://t.co/jfG3KoxoMq

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

“The power to define their own success.” And failure.

That is one of the core problems in the entire mental health field.

[Muel Mith @MithMuel]

@NickTaber It’s totally in tune with the expansionism of psychopharmacology

You identified why their power to define their own success is a central problem, the expansion is a side effect of this

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

@MithMuel Brilliant way to put it: “The expansionist doctrine of therapy”

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

Great way to reframe a marketing ploy as a call for self-care.

Purchasing therapy for anything and everything already is normalized. It’s not good for it to become synonymous with navigating life.

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

“The expansionist doctrine of therapy”

That’s what’s gotten everywhere.

[Muel Mith @MithMuel]

Therapy is an outright impediment to life it corrodes autonomy and self reliance while purporting to bolster both

Practicing beyond the baseline restoration of a patients identity after abusive or (big T) traumatic situations is a form of parasitism

*Very few* therapists possess the necessary temperament and IQ to do more good than harm

The expansionist doctrine of therapy as a business model rhymes with the pervasiveness of gambling culture except that this vulture wipes the blood from its beak

[Patrick Lockwood @AlobhaPatrick]

Endorsed

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More on this here:
https://t.co/39NVEvwZ7J

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I call it self-erasure.

The lesson many of us learned:

Don’t have a self, don’t ruffle the feathers of hyper insecure, reactive people, be small. And if you resist this you’ll get put on psychiatric drugs and sent to therapy.

[No BS Therapist @TweetATherapist]

I have this theory that millennials were told by their boomer parents to not take up too much space so when we say thank you we’re like THANK YOU!!! But gen z was told by their gen x parents to take up allll the space so they either don’t even say thanks or just give a half smile

[Nick Taber @NickTaber]

@DrAnnieHickox @marclaurens Totally agree. Rolling them out into the medical system alarms me. I don’t think their use should be criminalized at all but how best to integrate them into society is a very difficult question. Archaic cultures had heavily cultivated traditions for managing them.