The abolition of psychiatry does not mean that no one is allowed to identify with psychiatric diagnoses that they feel serve them, or that no one is allowed to continue taking psychiatric medications they find effective². It does mean, however, that the notion of ‘mental illness’ was invented to pathologize logical responses to the stress and trauma that are omnipresent in a world brutalized by colonialism and capitalism. Psychiatry has been described as a “medicalized colonizing of lands, peoples, bodies, and minds.” A notable example of psychiatry’s colonial intentions was the diagnosis of ‘drapetomania’: the mental ‘disease’ that explained why enslaved Black people in the Antebellum south ran away from their death camps (the ‘treatment’ for which was to treat them more ‘like children’). As China Mills states in Globalizing Mental Health, “distress caused by socio-economic conditions (and often neoliberal economic reforms) comes to be rearticulated as ‘mental illness’, treatable using techniques that draw upon similar rationales to those that led to distress initially.”

Wow, this is so important. I took the time to read the article linked to in the phrase “the ‘chemical imbalance’ theory has been numerously debunked” because it made me say “Wait, how? Antidepressants have genuinely helped me!” and it was this part of that linked article that made it click for me:

Ok so you could argue welfin isn’t straight because he lives in hxh and because he wears a thong. BUT he had a mullet with the thong (not a gay one) and was arrogant enough to believe he could be king despite not understanding anything about anything (very straight man) In my opinion Welfin was straight until he experienced ego death, went bald, and resurfaced bro memories that unlocked his bisexuality BUT he still sucks. Bloster gay Rammot het

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