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whenever you stop and listen to self advocacy by people w cognitive disabilities we're always saying things like "i want to choose what clothes to wear" "i want to date without someone supervising me" "i want to have input into what medication and surgeries i get" and like that's really fucking sad and nobody seems to consider how fucking miserable it is for any class in society to be pleading for these things as a group
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cannot emphasize enough that if you are currently pursuing a mental illness diagnosis out of your own volition with a professional and you do not absolutely unquestionably need it in order to access something specific and unattainable otherwise (accomodations or disability benefits or surgery coverage or custody or substances) then you should stop wasting your time and money and get out of there. you will not get validated. people will not treat you better. ranges from useless to actively harmful in the future. psych professionals have nothing of value to tell you about the world or about yourself
the speed with which the victims of state violence are labeled "unstable" by the state should make absolutely clear the necessary connection between police/prison abolition and mad rights/antipsychiatry.
there has never been a time in the history of psychiatry where "strenuously objecting to one's own mistreatment at the hands of authority figures" was not a diagnostic criteria for at least one disorder. read that again.
in a system where the "mental healthcare" frameworks are built on a preservation of the cultural status quo, advocating for oneself in the face of mistreatment becomes a symptom of illness.
it really pisses me off when I tell someone about my experience with lupus psychosis (caused by cerebritis, a form of brain inflammation) and they're like "wow someone should have brought you to the psych ward."
that actually would probably have killed me.
lupus psychosis is caused by an autoimmune disease (literally brain inflammation), it's not psychiatric. antipsychotics do absolutely nothing to help lupus psychosis. the only thing that can improve lupus psychosis is treatment for the lupus itself.
when people with lupus psychosis are admitted to a psych ward with a misdiagnosed psychotic disorder they often die. when people with lupus psychosis are in the psych ward they are often put on increasingly high doses of antipsychotics and other psychiatric drugs and aren't discharged. they are often denied other medical care because it's "unnecessary" and often because "it's just their psychosis"
I hope I don't need to explain why ignoring brain inflammation is dangerous.
If "help" is forced upon you without your consent then it's not help.
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a lot of the DSM’s very clearly prejudiced diagnoses (e.g. hypoactive sexual desire disorder, gender dysphoria, transvestic disorder, etc.) try to skirt around the prejudice by saying “the disorder lies in the patient’s distress over being this way, not the behavior itself :)” like hmmm do you think their distress has anything to do with societal expectations around “normal” sexuality and gender? or is distress just this magic thing that exists in a vacuum with no outside influence
like keep in mind that homosexuality was in the DSM until pressure was put on the APA by gay rights activists, and they “removed” it in 1973 and replaced it with many different diagnostic labels over the years to describe “this person is gay and distressed over it so we’re treating the distress with conversion therapy. blease don’t think we’re homophobic.” it wasn’t until 2013 that distress over one’s own sexual orientation was removed entirely from the DSM. do what you will with this information and begin to wonder what psychiatry’s actual motives are for continuing to pathologize queerness and gender nonconformity.
"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.
Mad Pride is important for neurotypicals too, by the way.
It’s for the girl who has her partner threaten her with wellness checks everytime she tries to leave their abuse, because she “must be insane”.
It’s for the child who fights back against abuse and gets taken to a child psychiatrist that diagnoses them with ODD instead of reporting the parents.
It’s for dark-skinned minorities who are diagnosed with “scary” disorders more often than their white peers.
It’s for the trans person denied their transitional surgeries because of “potential underlying disorders”.
