It's almost as if the biological model of depression was just the superficial manifestation of the real, deeper problem, which has nothing to do with biological theories per se, but it's about the need for power structures to control deviance, and how we fight back!

I don't want to sound smarmy but all law is fictional. They are not metaphysical givens. It's a good place to remember Rudolf rockers quote on this

📢REAGIM NDAJ PËRDORIMIT TË GJUHËS SË URREJTJES NGA PARTITË POLITIKE NË FUSHATAT ZGJEDHORE

If it's one bad egg, it's a bad egg. If it's a few bad eggs, it's a bad box. If it's hundreds of bad boxes over decades, it's an issue with the supplier. We cannot keep blaming the structural issues in children's mental healthcare on bad staff. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

This is what care can look like when youre recurrently self harming and feel suicidal. Anyone want this guess what diagnosis they were given?

Medicalization isn’t just a problem for psychiatry—it’s part of a larger cultural malaise. It numbs us, distances us from one another, and cuts us off from the depths of our own existence. Few have explored this more incisively than Brent Dean Robbins madinamerica.com/2025/02/all-re…

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This is stigmatising towards the many lived experience professionals and academics. What he means by detract is that those with LE can have different priorities that are equally, if not more valid, and that these might not align with the non-le 'expert'.

Everything known is fundamentally from lived experience. To now separate LE from science and clinical practice because of 'bias' will only result in poor and/ineffective treatments. All humans are biased, LE or not. We should harness all types of 'expertise' for the best outcomes

Psychology (& nursing) has willingly participated in drug based services & behaviour modification in services. For all the focus on the medical model, lets remember that psychology are willing participants in behaviour modification wielded with punishments and "contracts".

What a dystopian way to try to prevent suicide. This approach may well have the opposite effect! It is a lie, which the UK system perpetrates, that you can monitor someone out of suicide. There was always going to be a moment when the 15 minutes obs stopped, no matter what.

Uncritical glorification of healthcare staff can facilitate & obscure abusive practices. "No one goes into work to cause harm" is simply untrue. For example, many of us psychiatric patients have witnessed the sheer glee exhibited by some professionals when restraining us.

Everything About Us Without Us: Institutional Anosognosia at Oregon State Hospital, 1883-1955 by Robert Nikkel Historically, little attention was given to the value and contributions of those who were “patients” at the Oregon State Insane Asylum. buff.ly/pD5rd7l

All the pieties about centering lived experience. Except when it really really matters

When a movement claims they are a-political, you almost always find out it's a right wing movement. What the UK mental health establishment does when it speaks against "ideologies" is push for a right wing system, but deny people the right to object.

Direct Cash Aid Linked to Long-Term Mental Health Gains in Youth, New Study Finds Structural solutions like cash transfer programs could be key to reducing emotional distress where traditional treatment falls short. By Laura López-Aybar buff.ly/XWIY3UD

“Is it possible to articulate a hope to achieve social transformation after the global triumph of capitalism or is that just an illusion?”- h nn h pr ct r in Issue 05 on psychoanalysis, perestroika, and the collapse of the Soviet Union:

Ramadan Nishori becomes the first man in Kosovo to publicly share that he is a survivor of sexual violence committed by Milosevic regime's forces: I went through a lot, but they never broke me. They should be ashamed — not us.

I've talked about this on here before, but as someone who lives below the poverty line, the worst part about poverty is the humiliation rituals that come with it. The lack of privacy in particular has had a profound impact on who I am as a person.