My problem with the psychiatric diagnosis of ADHD is that it has devolved into pseudoscientific nonsense to push stimulant drugs. It actually prevents the investigation into legitimate problems that need to be addressed.

1/2 I guess there comes a point where the return on making miracle drugs isn't so miraculous any more. (Left: Newsweek, 26 March 1990 / right: Focus Taiwan, 22 October 2024)

Anything I post critiquing psychiatry or psych meds gets tons of traction, likes and reposts, comments from people whose lives were trashed by psychiatry. Any other posts are crickets. That should tell you something.

I think the worst thing about mental disorder labels is the way they set us up for a lifetime of constant self-invalidation: “that’s my depression talking” “that’s my OCD talking” “that’s my BPD talking” “that’s my schizoaffective talking” “that’s my chemical imbalance talking”

So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides by Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD "I don’t know of any other medical specialty whose practitioners systematically lie to the public in matters of life and death." madinamerica.com/2024/10/so-cal…

The trauma will not end till we abandon psychiatry’s pessimistic, simplistic ‘medical model’ and the coercion that goes with it.

I wonder if Elon Musk Teslas could run a docker type software setup so that upgrades were easier. Problem then is the more complicated, the more possible exploits.

The nail in the coffin of mutation v epigenetic is that features and skin tone are gradiented across Earth

They really put the colon in colonization

You can look up to people who don't look down on you

Is "Ramtha" actually "Martha" with the first 3 letters backwards?

The people who say white people need to be saved, maybe make up for years of apartheid and oppression or pitch in cleaning up the environment that colonization and racist industrialization has destroyed, and you might just start to save at least yourself.

We're roofless not homeless, #Earth is always home. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez