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12:07pm November 26, 2013

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is it just me who violently hates the pictures of brain scans with slogans about how the brain can get sick?

hate hate hate hate hate them

with all the hate

diagnosis does not work that way

being crazy does not work that way even for people who have clearly neurologically based mental illnesses that respond to medication in a straightforward way

and also just

there’s this message that ~abuse broke your brain forever~

and I’ve seen some pretty awful things done to adopted kids in the name of that

so just

NOPE NOPE NOPE

Yep. I despise it for neuroscience reasons too. There’s a reason diagnosis by brain scan is restricted to things like tumors and lesion locations — statistically significant differences almost always show up in population averages. A single scan is too messy for diagnostic purposes.

I mean you can’t even reliably diagnose *epilepsy* by brain scans, and that’s much better understood than anything in the category of mental illness.

It’s just… disconcerting when people make up science to fit their ideology.

yes these are all reasons I hate it it is such BULLSHIT and and *flails* promoting the solely medical model exclusively HURTS PEOPLE

Yes especially given how many people who have severe struggles that are completely dismissed because they have no obvious physical symptoms.

These things totally play into that.

and especially with the problems they singled out, so often they’re at least partially due to life circumstances, depression and anxiety and and? There IS ABSOLUTELY chemical only depression that responds to treatment with medication but that’s about the

most widely known form and we need to pay more attention to people do not fit that model

Yes and then there’s this thing where a lot of people will tell you that you have to consider your crazy medical in order to be allowed to talk about it, because otherwise you’re just using a slur/adding to stigma or whatever.

But like - not all crazy is a medical condition and people who have non-medical crazy *also* struggle and need to be taken seriously.

Yes and it’s not also crazy it’s also madness, lunacy, lunatic, etc. are words that some crazy people actually use on ourselves because it makes more sense to us.  Sometimes in the reclaimed sense but sometimes because we’re trying to avoid medical terms and medical ideas about what it means to be crazy.

But I think there’s also a perception that only mad liberation/mad pride types can use words like that, and that’s not true at all.  Anyone who needs to, can.

ETA:  Not all crazy people consider ourselves neuro-atypical (or if we do, not because of being crazy).  Not all of us accept neurological explanations of our experiences.  Personally, I think some are neurologically based, others are not, and others are a complicated mixture of things, and psychiatry hasn’t even close to sorted out which or even fully acknowledged the problem.  And brain scans are totally not the diagnosis.  The diagnosis-by-brain-scan thing is a RACKET, and I happen to know one of the assholes who does it.  He does it all for the money, and he’s misdiagnosed friends of mine as having drug problems who never touched drugs in their life, because “the brain scans are never wrong” for him.  In my case he diagnosed brain damage.

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