Do I have any followers who work in the field of mental health? I work in mental health as a peer support worker and I’m studying to become a mental health social worker and I’m wondering whether any of you have any thoughts on how to reconcile your antipsychiatry views with working in the field. I personally believe there’s a lot of value in having people with their own experiences of mental health difficulties and navigating the mental health care system working within that system to change it from the inside and support people from a position of true empathy and understanding but I struggle with a sense of a lack of power to be able to enact any meaningful change. I worry about becoming just another cog in the machine of psychiatry. What are your thoughts?
