Oct 7, 2025
Person newly exploring psych-critical viewpoints: The problem with Psychiatry is that it's all about making people useful, productive workers and consumers under capitalism! Real, anti-capitalist Mental Health shouldn't be about making people be productive! People don't have to be useful! Real Mental Health should be about helping people be healthy and functional. Recovering from dysfunctional behaviors. Learning functional coping skills. Healing from dysfunctional relationships. Restoring functionality. Identifying dysfunctional patterns. Developing functional habits. Function. Function. Function. Function. Function.
#psych abolition#anti psychiatry#anti psych#mad liberation#inspired by a discussion of 1930s narcotics farms promising to restore narcotic addicts to “usefulness”#and commentary on how capitalist/ableist/eugenicist that “usefulness” framing is#and i comma an abolitionist comma#am like#yes. it is. however.#“functional” is just a synonym for “useful”#it's literally the same thing#so you should also be recognizing the capitalist/ableist/eugenicist framing#of every treatment or institution or service or concept#that references “(dys)function(al)(ity)”#humans aren't machines#we aren't supposed to function#we're supposed to live
