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12:19pm September 30, 2014

fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton:

youneedacat:

madeofpatterns:

not anti-psychiatry, but anti  some aspects of it

I don’t like how it conflates all these things:

• people who have neurological problems that affect cognition or movement
• effects of past trauma, current abuse, or unsuitable environments
• people who create problems for other people

I’m anti-psychiatry, but I don’t think people know what I mean by that.  This is extremely long so it’s under a cut with a TL;DR at the end.  But please don’t respond to me if the only line you’ve read is the above one, because you will not grasp what I mean.

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This is my stance on psychiatry, too, based on my own knowledge. Mel’s is a lot more thoroughly researched and extensive.

I forgot to put into that post, that I think services need to be made available to psychiatric patients on the same basis that they are made available to people with physical or developmental disabilities.  That is:

• Figure out what the person has trouble doing.
• Figure out if there’s a way to teach them how to do it.
• If they still can’t do it consistently, or if they don’t want to be taught how to do it, then do it for them, or assist them in doing it themselves, depending on their wishes.
• All of this should be directed by the disabled person, not by some random caseworker who decides what’s best for us.
• This should be available in the person’s own home and they should never have to move in order to receive this assistance.

That’s how it’s done in the DD and physical disability world, at its best.  That it’s not done that way in the psych world speaks volumes about why I don’t like psychiatry.

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