Psychiatry’s tendency to label non-normative emotions as disorders contributes to affective injustice, distorting emotional self-understanding and deepening inequality. By Ally Riddle #psychiatry #psychology #philosophy madinamerica.com/2024/09/affect…

What if I told you the pill you take for anxiety might be making it worse? And not just a little—a lot. Benzodiazepines like Xanax and Klonopin are prescribed to millions, but the real risks of long-term use are often hidden. Yes, they ease panic at first, but over time, they

r/therapists be like: “Can someone recommend a book or article already written about how to help a specific person with a unique history, personality, and set of circumstances?”

There is only one true cause of mental suffering - lack of attuned, empathic, needs meeting care. PERIOD. For 10 millennium the care our instinctual baby bodies and the bodies we grow in has been battling a chronic genocidal war. Child abuse and maternal distress are the most 1/2

It’s odd how many thinkers confuse “psychiatry’s biological paradigm is wrong” with “mental illness doesn’t exist”. The difference in the 2 positions seems obvious to me. Psychiatry is based on a misguided category error only about 50 years old, not on eternal truth.

helpless, for more than a decade. Intense, intimate connection is the relational, regulatory counter balance to this horribly painful anguish. Nurturing stops our mental suffering. It stops psychopathy from developing. The absence of empathic, mindful, Secureful, nurturing 13/14

The robust evidence shows that (what are diagnosed as) psychiatric disorders are predominantly socio-psychological in nature It is an error on several levels, therefore, to predominantly respond to them biomedically For me, as for many others, this conclusion is beyond reproach

There’s something deeply morally repugnant about psych-professionals speaking up for the people their interventions have helped while ignoring, pathologising or actively maligning those they have harmed. I see this everyday on this site…

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#WorldPatientSafetyDay Five tips for patients to help get an accurate diagnosis

The term “psychosomatic,” at this point, has to be dropped from use. Obviously the mind-body dynamics it describes are real, but it is now routinely used to imply “fake”, “not real”, “not serious,” or even self-inflicted. Whereas disorders / symptoms at the interface of …

… mind and body are very real, can be very serious, and are not anyone’s fault any more than any other illness. Consequently the term has become stigmatizing and has lost clinical utility.

The way some psychiatrists talk about patients here, it’s like they don’t think their patients are fully human. They may have *compassion* for them, but it’s the compassion you’d have for a wounded animal, not a person who is equal to you.

The problem is not with words, it's with application and actions stemming from these words! All diseases are "mind-body" - because the brain is part of the body, and the mind is IN the brain. We don't send a patient with diabetes to psychotherapy to talk themselves out of

So the app Headspace has much better results for depression than SSRIs, which only improved HAM-D 1.75 points!

My freakish family actually wanted this for me as well because of my complications from ECT. I had complications from longterm max doses of SSRIs, they shock my head. I develop complications from them shocking my head, then they suggest drilling into my skull.

Patient Safety Commissioner Effective diagnosis comes from an equal medical relationship. Doctors need to listen to their patients,believe them, recognise they are the experts on their own mind and body esp re drug effects. #PSSD