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Aaron Goslee

@goslee_aaron

26 days

In Defense of Anti-Psychiatry, by Philip Hickey (this essay changed my life)

In Defense of Anti-Psychiatry

Why do Ronald Pies and Mark Ruffalo malign anti-psychiatry? Because they have no rational response to our criticisms.

www.madinamerica.com

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3 months

“We don’t know the cause of any mental illness.” It’s trauma, stress, and abuse.

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I was in a relationship that was so psychologically abusive that I genuinely went insane. I just realized that last week. And you know what? Psychiatrists only made it worse.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

They call us “mentally ill” while our abusers get a clean bill of mental health. What kind of nonsense is that?

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1 month

Someone: *gets abused* Psychiatrist: “Have you considered drugs for your mental illness?”

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4 months

Abuse victims who are freaking out don’t need a psychiatrist to convince them they’re mentally ill and drug them, an act of oppression and abuse in and of itself. They need a safe space to regroup and strategize with people who actually care and understand the human condition. 1/

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

Change “mentally ill” to “a victim of abuse” & you are closer to the truth. “I am mentally ill.” versus “I am a victim of abuse.” Then we can start looking at the forms of abuse and the impact on our cognition. & how to minimize the abuse. & too how to change our cognition.

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5 years

Fuck the wall, I want #MedicareForAll .

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Aaron Goslee

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6 months

Every single "mentally ill" person I've ever met in a psych ward has a disturbing story they're trying to tell, and the psychiatrists invariably tell them in so many words/ways to shut the fuck up and accept a damaging, stigmatizing label that has no explanatory value.

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Aaron Goslee

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1 month

Prove to me that a “mental illness” is a brain disorder, and I’ll believe it exists medically. Without that proof, I will continue seeing “mental illness” as a defamatory label placed on victims of trauma, stress, and abuse to disempower them.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

Calling someone mentally ill is usually a way to discard the needs of an abused person. Now, instead of having problems, they are the problem. Just tell them to shut up and take pills.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

A week in a psych ward costs ~$10,000. I spent about a year in psych wards. That’s half a million dollars. Imagine if I had just been given half a million dollars. I could have gotten out of the abusive situation that caused the problems in the first place, started a business…

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

They’d rather call you mentally ill and drug you than acknowledge that you’re a victim and provide support.

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3 months

They kidnap you from your home, lock you in a shitty hospital wing, infantilize and gaslight you, force you to take drugs that you don’t need, and then they have the nerve to say you’re agitated and that this agitation is proof of a mental illness.

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Aaron Goslee

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1 month

Why are psychiatrists so often accomplices in abuse? I’ve heard and seen this so many times. A person in a psych ward going off on people over the phone. And the goal seems to be to drug the victim into submission so they’re nice to their abusers. It’s fucked up.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

Imagine if you were involuntarily hospitalized and you showed up and there was a team to give you hugs and donuts and they stayed up with you all night listening to the horror stories of your life and then in the morning they sent you home with names of therapists 1/

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Aaron Goslee

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29 days

Can you actually imagine being a psychiatrist working in a psych ward? Off to work like, “Today I’m going to force drugs into the system of a person I’ve spent 30 minutes with who is being held captive in one of the most traumatizing environments.” My god.

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Aaron Goslee

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30 days

I’m starting to get the sneaking suspicion that there’s almost a 1:1 correlation between people who are in abusive relationships and people who end up in psych wards.

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Aaron Goslee

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1 month

Someone should tell psychiatrists that drugging a victim of abuse and then turning them over to the abuser repeatedly is not actually all that helpful.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

People are abused or experience trauma, develop psychological problems from it, are labeled mentally ill and drugged, and then have go on disability. They’re then left to rot. Meanwhile, the abusers go their merry way and are never held accountable. We need to do better.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

The problem with most mental health workers is that they’re just unbelievably fucking stupid. Dumb as fucking rocks. No understanding of metaphor, humor, symbolic speech, hyperbole. Just a fucking potato writing down pejoratives.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

Is there anything more delusional than a psychiatrist who thinks they’re helping people?

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

Our system is so wrought with abuse. It sometimes seems like there’s absolutely nowhere to go and no one to turn to when we’re victims of abuse. The courts are unjust and abusive. The psych wards are unjust and abusive. How do we get justice and stop being in cycles of abuse?

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

Psychiatrists will literally meet you for 15 minutes and then call you stigmatizing names and dole out a lifetime prescription for drugs that harm you. They even do it to children now. It’s absolutely absurd.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

No shit people who are labeled “mentally ill” are more likely to be abused. The cause of the “mental illness” is abuse in the first place. And the solution for the “illness” is apparently giving a stigmatizing label, drugging, and then returning to the abusive environment. Wow.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

If the chemical imbalance theory has been debunked, if we know that mental illness is usually caused by trauma, stress, and abuse, if we know psychotropics often have negative side effects, why exactly is psychiatry still so common and so seemingly infallible?

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Aaron Goslee

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4 months

How many “mental illnesses” are exhibitions of a defensive posture in response to trauma and abuse? Is it literally all of them?

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Aaron Goslee

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23 days

“This person is distressed? Let’s kidnap them, lock them in a barren wasteland, force drugs into their body, and spend all day gaslighting them.” Seriously. Who came up with this shit.

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@HeartlandSignal He should be immediately fired for sexual harassment.

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7 years

@lutosinGBELA @CNN I know. All this love they're surrounded with. Going to wonder how there are so many haters like you in the world.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

The psychiatrist is only looking for statements that check boxes in DSM diagnostics. That’s it. They don’t give two shits about your story and the cause of your distress. It is anti-holistic, anti-care, anti-psychology.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

Thinking of all the people trapped in a psych ward right now, trying to get to talk to the psychiatrist, trying to get home. All the screaming, the stress, all the abuse. Almost no one deserves to be in that situation. We need to do better.

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Aaron Goslee

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1 month

How dare they tell us victims of trauma, stress, and abuse that we’re mentally ill. How dare they act like our struggles are irrational, that we are crazy for acting the way we do. How dare they run cover for our abusers, effectively telling us to just shut up and take a pill.

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Aaron Goslee

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4 months

Bipolar is extremely overdiagnosed and the criteria are absolutely silly. “Elevated mood” oh no! “Talkative” my god! “Grandiose” shoot me in the face! “Goal-oriented” someone call the police!

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

How the fuck would a psychiatrist know when they meet someone whether the someone is having a distinct period of elevation, expansiveness, or irritability, and that it’s not just their fucking personality?

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

So many people are having psychological problems precisely because their minds are in tact and well-functioning, and they’re reacting normally to trauma, stress, and abuse. Are we supposed to be machines with the perfect solution to every affront we face? Let’s be real.

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Aaron Goslee

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27 days

Someone once said, “We can’t drug away trauma, stress, and abuse.” That was a very wise person.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

The last thing a person with psychological problems needs is a psychiatrist.

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Aaron Goslee

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Psychiatry’s fuel is victim blaming and gaslighting.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

Thinking of all the people trapped in psych wards for the weekend, their liberty stolen because they dared to be abnormal. Thinking about the complete lack of care, the animosity shown by staff, the infantilization, the gaslighting. Thinking about the loneliness, the despondency.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

Is there anything more damaging than a mental health professional rationalizing and excusing the abuse, trauma, and/or stressors you’ve faced?

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Aaron Goslee

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4 months

If psychiatrists actually gave a shit about people and their suffering, they’d be deeply involved in progressive politics.

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Aaron Goslee

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19 days

27.2% of women are diagnosed mentally ill. Perhaps the whole thing is a crock of shit? Perhaps what is ill is our fucking environment, the demands that are placed on us, the society that we are living in?

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

Ban coercive psychiatry. Seriously. Just end it. It’s inhumane. The UN agrees and says it should end. It’s not fucking working.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

I hate the whole “it gets better” narrative. For a lot of people, it doesn’t.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

Psychology is intricate and complicated. It takes a good psychologist months to really get to know someone. Yet psychiatrists will sit there with a 5th-grade-level checklist and claim to know you well enough to diagnose and drug you in a half an hour. It’s. A. Fraud.

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Aaron Goslee

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5 months

Are you mentally ill or are you having normal reactions to crazy fucking shit? Psychiatrists know first-hand that your reactions are normal, but they won’t say it, because they’d be out of a job.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

Is the mental health system purposely kept shitty and are people purposely fed bullshit theories of mental health so that the best option for most people is drugs?

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Aaron Goslee

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5 months

Stress causes psychological problems. UBI reduces stress. Thus, UBI reduces psychological problems.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

Today my therapist told me that her 8-year-old son just tried to commit suicide. Then she told me that when I stop taking the forced psychotropics, no one will like me and I won’t be able to function. …

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Aaron Goslee

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5 months

Ban psychiatry. Burn the DSM.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

Imagine believing psychiatry is a science? How do you find mental illness? We talk about it and vote. How do you treat mental illness? With drugs Big Pharma gives us. How do the drugs work? We actually don’t know. So scientific.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

I really wish the statement, “I do not feel psychologically well,” was met with an, “I understand. Let’s talk about the causes of those feelings and what we can do to make life livable,” instead of an, “You are mentally ill and need to take these pills.”

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

Imagine thinking psychiatry is scientific?

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Aaron Goslee

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15 days

You’re being abused. One day, you can’t take the abuse anymore, and you freak out. Next thing you know, you’re being strapped to a gurney. You wind up captive in a hospital, with psychiatrists gaslighting you and calling you stigmatizing names. You give up your fight.

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27 days

The truth about the mental health crisis isn’t easy, in that the solution doesn’t mean more funding for mental health care: it means funding housing for all, it means a UBI, it means free college for all. The solution is good social policy, not drugs and psychotherapy.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

Abusive living situations cause psychological problems. The current solution is a stigmatizing label, drugs, and a return to the abusive situation. How about providing housing that isn’t abusive first and seeing how it goes?

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

All that psychiatry has done for me, for the most part, is empower my abusers and destroy my life. And the worst part is, I know that I’m not alone. I hear this refrain sung over and over. It’s as if it’s the explicit role of the industry, to empower abusers and destroy lives.

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Aaron Goslee

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4 months

Ban psychiatry. Burn the DSM.

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Aaron Goslee

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5 months

Involuntary hospitalization makes people psychotic. 1/

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Aaron Goslee

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30 days

Fuck our abusers and the psychs they work with to condemn us as mentally ill, our behaviors and cognitions they say need to be drugged or shocked away. Plenty of people loved who I was, love who I am. I didn’t need to change. I needed to be away from the abusers and psych.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

The bipolar criteria are still the biggest crock of shit in the history of medicine. So overly broad. Pathologizes happiness. So easy to misdiagnose. It needs to be completely redone.

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Aaron Goslee

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4 months

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The reason people don’t want to believe that environment causes psych problems is because they don’t want to take responsibility for the impacts their behavior can have on someone.

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Aaron Goslee

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6 months

People labeled mentally ill are often some of the most intelligent and sensitive people I’ve met. They’re usually responding in their own way to a sick society that awards psychopathy and abusers.

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Aaron Goslee

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7 years

@mdlagewhiteguy @GOP Remember, Trump loved it when Russia hacked the DNC. What a traitor.

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Aaron Goslee

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5 months

Psychiatrists: “We have plenty of research that supports our work.” Person: “Show us, please.” Psychiatrists: “Anti-psych! You are exhausting and stupid! Block!”

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Aaron Goslee

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5 months

The behavior of psychiatrists on Twitter is damning. They mock harmed patients. They’re sarcastic and vitriolic. They refuse to be questioned. They dismiss all the research that comes to conclusions that disagree with the way they practice. They’re ideologically void.

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Aaron Goslee

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23 days

@TerribleMaps This is actually an amazing map.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

I want people who have been diagnosed with mental illness to stand up like the walking dead and tell their true stories, the abuse, the trauma, the stress, connect it all to bigoted capitalism, and tear down this utter bullshit of a system.

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Aaron Goslee

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4 months

Far too many victims of abuse are told that they’re mentally ill, which then empowers further abuse. Half the time what people who are psychologically unwell need is to get out of abusive situations. They don’t need drugs, and they certainly don’t need to be told to “cope.”

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

Psychiatrists are just like, “Here. Take these drugs. Form a dependency on them. That’s what’s best,” and 93.18% of the population doesn’t even blink an eye.

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Aaron Goslee

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29 days

Psychiatrists who force drugs on people are abusers who traumatize their victims. Period.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

Psychiatrists should be building their patient’s self-esteem, not destroying it and then handing out drugs that devastate one’s id.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

I think ultimately the problem with psychiatry is that sanity is utterly subjective, and medicine is supposed to be objective. This leaves psychiatry as a nonsense pseudoscience that in reality is nothing more than an enforcer of bourgeois morals.

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Aaron Goslee

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7 years

@GOP The @POTUS just gave sensitive information to the Russians and you're over here still talking about Hillary Clinton on the internet.

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Aaron Goslee

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5 months

Nothing would do more for our mental health than a UBI.

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"Health policy has often focused on improving healthy behavior and increasing the efficiency of health services, but there's a lot of evidence now to show that health is socially determined." Amount + stability of $ can matter a great deal to our health.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

Sometimes all you need is for someone you care about to say, “I’m sorry that happened to you. That’s messed up.”

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

Psychiatrists will leave you in the same place as an abusive partner, constantly second-guessing yourself, wondering what you could do differently and wondering what is wrong with you. What’s wrong is you believing they have anything to add to your story. Fuck them.

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Aaron Goslee

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5 months

Can we all just agree that we need informed consent and an end to coercive psychiatry?

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

Psychiatry takes people who are abused, stressed, or traumatized, calls them mentally ill, silences them, and then so very often causes them harm with their drugs. It’s just another means of abuse, only with government backing, making it all the more insidious.

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#PSSD is the ultimate failure. I went through so much stuff from bullying to an alcoholic parent and somehow survived only to be chemically castrated and left with total anhedonia by a glorified drug dealer.

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Aaron Goslee

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4 months

@the_transit_guy Infuriating. The most selfish generation.

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Aaron Goslee

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1 month

A hell of a lot of psychological problems come from drugs. Psychiatry doesn’t really want to talk about that because their goal is… to sell drugs.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

I’m thinking about the people who are trapped in psych wards right now. Those last terrible hours of the workweek when you realize you’re not going home. When you feel abandoned and alone. When everyone’s yelling at each other. When you feel traumatized and distraught.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

I’m increasingly feeling like seeing a mental health professional generally won’t improve mental health. Some people find the right fit, but is that actually a low probability event? Is the norm no change or a worsening?

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

The effects of trauma, stress, and abuse are real. They can cause so many problems in feeling and identity. But medicalizing those problems and treating them as if they’ve come out of nowhere, just a brain malfunction, doesn’t help and isn’t true.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

Ban psychiatry. Burn the DSM.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

Unless a “mentally ill” person commits a crime, if they want to be left alone, leave them the fuck alone. You shouldn’t magically lose your liberty because a bunch of dolts voted to pathologize your expression of being.

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Aaron Goslee

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4 months

abuse. We have to wake up and realize that poverty is abusive. Trapping adults in spaces with absurd rules and regulations is abusive. Not allowing an adult to come and go as they please is abusive. Depriving someone of services is abusive. Food insecurity is abusive. 3/

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

Psychiatrists are thought police. Nothing more.

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Aaron Goslee

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26 days

Being involuntarily hospitalized is one of the most degrading & traumatizing experiences someone can go through. And dare I say, that’s not something someone who is struggling with their mental health should go through. I’m thinking of those trapped in wards for the weekend.

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Aaron Goslee

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1 month

It’s insanely inhumane and barbaric to force someone to take drugs. People must fundamentally retain the right to decide what goes in their body, whether it’s a drug produced by a trillion dollar industry or the dick of a frat boy who thinks you look cute. Rape is rape.

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1 month

Fantasizing about becoming a mental health lawyer so I can work in the courts to get people out of sectionings and conservatorships. Maybe start a class action. Maybe write a best seller.

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Aaron Goslee

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2 months

I’m beyond sick and tired of having mental health professionals tell me my experiences weren’t real. You weren’t there, you fucking goblins.

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Aaron Goslee

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20 days

Psychiatry is fascistic. The psychiatrist is the authority on sanity; their grasp on sanity is unquestionable; and they are allowed, with their medicalized language, to alter the chemical composition of those who have different relationships with sanity. It’s revolting.

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Aaron Goslee

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1 month

Yeah, so, I met the criteria for bipolar: elevated, goal-oriented, talkative, high self-esteem, non-stop thoughts, little sleep, psychotic features. But I fundamentally liked who I was. What I’d like is for mental health professionals and the state to leave me the fuck alone.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

who specialize in listening to victims. Because everyone who is involuntarily hospitalized is a victim. And we need to stop trying to convince victims that they’re mentally ill and drugging them into silence. We need to be heard and we need to be empowered. It’s absolutely 2/

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

Imagine trying to advocate for yourself as a woman who has been labeled borderline. Horrifying.

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Aaron Goslee

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3 months

We have a calling people mentally ill epidemic.

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Aaron Goslee

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4 months

Everyone who is involuntarily hospitalized should have the right to meet with a lawyer within 24-hours of hospitalization, regardless of whether they request one and regardless of willingness to sign in voluntarily. We don’t even send criminals to jail without this right.

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