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@psych-abolition
the concept of cognitive distortions are so fun to look back on from an anti-psych perspective because we really are just teaching people in distress to police their own thoughts and categorize their Incorrect Thoughts into cutesy little boxes. the entire practice of CBT is just. policing the way people think about the situations theyβre in. smiles!
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Like, yeah, cutting is addictive, but so is drinking coffee in the morning. With proper safety measures in place, it's not really any more destructive or damaging than more widely accepted BDSM practices.
This attitude that people have a moral obligation to """get clean""" is deeply christofash. There's something incredibly twisted and perverse about how exercising the autonomy to modify your body as you please is treated like a horrifying, life-ruining Addictionβ’ on par with back alley baking soda/fentanyl/heroin cocktails or tranq.
(Not that I approve of the christofash attitudes surrounding drug use either, to be clear, but I don't want to get too off-topic here.)
Except, actually, cutting is seen as even more Ontologically Evil than criminalized drug use, because we don't even get a trialβwe just get legally disappeared and tortured in asylums indefinitely, unless we can lie our way out.
Cutting represents everything christofascists are afraid ofβsexual freedom, bodily autonomy, blood (they're TERRIFIED of blood and weirder about it than we are lol), rebellion, and emotional honesty. It leaves visible marks that serve as proof of refusal to assimilate.
Of course, not everyone has a healthy relationship with it. People who genuinely want to quit should do so. But not everyone wants to, and the default attitude of "satanic panic" surrounding it needs to change.
Yeah, no, I do realise that I'm breaking a societal rule, I just think that the rule is stupid and deserves to be broken
I dont know how to explain to everyone that the modern concept of a pedophile is a government tool to cause fear and control in a way that will make people actually listen to what im saying without just hearing "pedophile" and flying into a blind rage. You are all disturbingly susceptible to propaganda
Like in many cases it will not necessarily "get better" on its own, and the degree to which things are actually going to improve is directly dependent on access to resources, accommodations, community and practical support beyond "don't worry, it will get better :)"
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I think the reason why so many struggling people balk at "it gets better" is because of how often that statement plays a role in dismissal instead of being followed by actual support. "It gets better!!! (so we don't actually have to do anything to tangibly help you improve your current situation)"
Like it triggers me badly how common a take "carceral violence is bad and should be limited, except in the case of really mentally ill people who need it and benefit from it" is even among supposedly progressive people
Like it does bother me how often people's only criticism of forced medication with antipsychotics take place when it explicitly happens outside the context of psychosis like I actually think being forced to take heavily sedating and debilitating meds with often severe side effects against your will indefinitely is still really wrong and traumatizing even when the person in question did hallucinate
It feels like the vast majority of people I meet are unable to conceptualize any struggle/"abnormal" character trait without medicalizing and pathologizing it.
At this stage in my life, it's completely alien to me, and it makes me deeply sad. The worst part is that there's rarely any malicious intent behind it. They simply don't realize how harmful the rhetoric they're feeding into is. These are people who genuinely suffer, but are so unwilling to accept that their suffering isn't a random fluke of their biologyβit's a product of the world we live in, which is governed by cruel and inhumane norms.
I don't blame them. Capitalism is so soul-crushing that it's easier to say "maybe I'm the problem." I can understand not wanting to look the reality of this world in the eyes.
But it's hard to imagine genuinely being friends with someone who's fully bought into the propoganda that any deviation from the norm is a sign of inherent brokenness. Even if they don't mean any harm.
And the vast, vast majority of people believe this.
It really makes me feel like there's no place for me.
every time i think about the troubled teen industry and remember that it still exists i am filled with incandescent rage. what do you mean itβs totally legal for parents to hire strangers to literally kidnap their child out of their bed and take them to a secondary location without telling them anything where they will be abused and tormented and deprived of basic rights for months?? just because the parent thinks they have behavioral issues? how are we not marching in the streets every day to get this horrific, abusive, traumatizing practice completely outlawed and everyone involved prosecuted??
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I wish we didn't live in a nightmare world where almost everyone is brainwashed into believing that anything less than a state of constant catatonic complacency/ability to contribute to capitalism until literal death is an individual failing at best or biological brain disease at worst.
the way people talk about anorexia is literally it's immoral because you're doing violence to yourself by making yourself incapable of physical labour but you're not REALLY disabled because it's self inflicted but you are really disabled if i can use the mental illness construct to lock you up and forcefeed you
& god forbid you have intimate relationships while anorexic, those are definitionally Bad People because they obviously haven't Done Anything About It, anyone who would love you as you are is a freak and a predator and your own expressed desires must be hidden from The Children because unlike a rational person you are indelibly tainted by your diseased brain. if you are anorexic it is your civic duty to eschew all social connection and isolate yourself to contemplate muscle mass until you emerge victorious, ready to reproduce and lift heavy boxes
I feel like ik what your answer is going to be but genuinely do you feel like a person with MAJOR hang ups and anxieties and insecurities and maybe even a little trauma surrounding sex would benefit from seeing a sex therapist bc I really don't know who else to be talking to about this stuff but i'm also leaning very anti-psych lately so idrk what my options are to start working through these issues
i think sex therapy CAN be a distinct experience in that its goal is generally not to diagnose a person but to bring their sexuality closer to alignment with what they want it to be. however in general this is still virtually always based to some degree in a normalising impulse (on the part of both the therapist and the client lol) and once you start talking about trauma and such you're back squarely in the psych bucket. i think professionalising advice-giving kind of sucks in general, not because it's transactional (all relationships are) but because it places the client/patient in the role of student, or more often deviant, and privileges the idea of the professional as a fount of objective wisdom and morally necessary healing
βTerf is a slur used to silence usβ dang bitch I wish it worked shut the fuck up
Too many people think that "the patriarchy" refers to a social class of all-powerful, ontologically evil, illuminati-like "Oppressor Men" who secretly control everything, rather than referring to sexist, heteronormative, transphobic norms in our society.
So it becomes very difficult to have conversations about misogyny/homophobia and transphobia/etc. when people's efforts are more focused on classifying everyone into clear-cut "perpetrators" and "victims" instead of discussing what these harmful societal norms actually are and acknowledging that anyone can perpetuate them.
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the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw
a very interesting terf objection to this one boils down to "but how would the state know who to protect?" because it speaks to the incredible privilege of being in a class the state actually ever remotely wants to protect. most oppressed groups do not want the state to have a registry of them, lol
the patriarchy has done a great job convincing white cisgender women that it's in their best interests to maintain it
Researchers can do studies that track disparate impacts across genders just fine without the government storing your assigned sex as part of your legal identity. They do this with race and orientation and disability and so on just fine.
A census can understand population level trends just fine without storing your assigned sex as part of your legal identity. They can ask for this information in the census. The census tracking population level data is not the same as your assigned sex being permanently part of your legal identity. (At least, the way my country does a census.)
Your doctor can know your anatomy by you communicating it to them if/when it is relevant. There is never a time when they might need to know something that could only be conveyed by your assigned sex being officially relayed to them via government documentation. You can just use your words. The same way you tell your doctor any other part of your medical history.
People respond to "the government doesn't need to store your assigned sex as part of your legal identity" as if they are hearing "no one should ever acknowledge gender or sex at all" but that's not what's being said.
Your birth certificate conveys important legal information about you. Your name, as a designation. Your parents, as they have a legal obligation to you. Your place of birth, as that place has a legal obligation to you. Date and time of birth, since age is important for application of some laws.
And sex. That's on there too. But what is the legal relevance? What laws is the government going to apply to you differently based on what sex is on your birth certificate? I can only think of one thing my government really uses that for, and that is to determine who has to sign up for the draft. And guess what, fuck that shit anyway. The government also used to use this to decide who is allowed to marry who. They don't do that anymore. For now.
There is literally no reason my assigned sex needs to be part of my legal identity. My government is not using that for anything (important). It doesn't matter. If the gender markers on everyone's IDs vanished tomorrow nothing (except maybe the draft) would be significantly negatively affected. Data collection for research could continue as usual since researchers usually have people self report these characteristics rather than checking their government IDs. My doctors would still know which organs I have and if they forgot, I could tell them. I don't want anything to be part of my legal identity that doesn't have to be.
diversity win! the therapist who is contractually obligated to call the police on you if youβre too suicidal works for a πqueer affirming practiceπ
