Katie Charlwood
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than any patient's mental state.
It shows a society uncomfortable with protest and is willing to medicalise political dissent rather than confront the injustices inspiring it.
If someone is angry because they're denied equal rights, perhaps the problem isn't the anger.
Perhaps, possibly, it is the denial of rights.
Again, to confirm, to clarify, this is not to dismiss schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses.
They are serious medical conditions affecting millions of people and they deserve evidence-based treatment free from political interference and social stigma.
The tragedy is that psychiatric language, which is intended to help patients, is instead weaponized to undermine activists and reinforce existing power struggles.
Good thing we don't have that today.
Medicine is not immune to prejudice.
Psychiatry, like every scientific discipline, exists within the society that produces it.
And diagnoses have historically reflected cultural assumptions as much as clinical observation.
We, like, jeez.
homosexuality remained classified as a mental disorder in the DSM.
That's right, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders until 1973.
Right?
Like, how easy social discomfort masquerades as medical certainty.
Now, the lesson here isn't psychiatry is inherently suspect.
science works best when it questions itself as rigorously as it questions its subjects because like if a diagnostic manual starts sounding you know like an editorial in favor of the status quo might be time to review the methodology that's the thing like protesting injustice is not evidence of mental illness it's not
it's making demands for equality as symptoms of disease like that's that's a pathology history has diagnosed quite harshly and like and when we talk about mental illness when we talk about it properly you know it's still seen with
disdain there's there's a stigma still with it so not only within society as a whole but especially within marginalized communities because black communities are always treated harsher than a white community right it's consistent and i'm a white person i'm privileged right i might be a woman but i'm still a mayo sapien which puts me in a place of privilege and i think
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