#defining reality

a culture that accepts "just think about things differently" as a legitimate solution to material problems is not a natural inevitability. it is a result of all the cultural forces that came before us. learning about the new thought movement and how that shaped the new age period that became so ubiquitous that most people dont even realize it is an explicit spiritual mode of thinking, really helped me to understand why psychiatry is the way it is now. the overlap of self help slop and new age grift is massive. and the overlap of self help slop and psychology/psychiatry is massive. psychiatry pushes what is "normal" or common as healthy, and clearly has no integrity when it comes to clearly communicating what is and is not a science backed secular practice.

ive only had a few comments/tags like this thankfully, but i have seen a few from mental health professionals on my posts. and they do this thing where they make a comment that they probably think is a corrective one, because they probably think that they are the best source of what actually goes on in psychiatric treatment.

like some are more overt than others, but every single mental illness diagnosis (and also miscellaneous labels like "victim mentality" or "negative thoughts") carry an explicit association with: This person is Too Insane to be able to know things. Dont listen to them or believe them. whether its depression and anxiety, schizophrenia, personality disorders, OCD, ODD, or psychotic disorders, etc. They are all a process of ongoing violence even when the diagnosis is accurate in what the symptoms entail.

its probably normal to hear a stranger/acquaintance talk about their own life and have some doubts about the accuracy. or their trustworthiness. thats very valid. i dont think it would be realistic to expect psych professionals to immediately fully trust their patients, even if bias and prejudice was not a problem. however there is zero excuse for:

and of course when i was trying to understand my own therapy abuse and gaslighting, none of the resources online said shit about therapists weaponizing cbt or my (accurate) ptsd diagnosis or my ~negative mentality~ or any other slop as being part of it. but it was. i had to figure it out myself and give myself the permission to acknowledge what i already knew. they 10000% used psychiatric rhetoric in so many forms to regular gaslight me. and i had to piece it together almost entirely by myself, because either there is no knowledge, or there is no care that regular common psych rhetoric is a perfect tool of gaslighting too.