🌱Here's a question to get y'all to think about your own stories. How can stories be used to heal? #BIMHStories Quote retweet your responses. #BlackInMentalHealthWeek

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Facts- Lately I’ve been feeling like the dualistic framing of anything is the root problem in wellness spaces: Mind/body, body/environment, etc. “Fictitious dichotomies” in turn create fictitious solutions, via dualistic framing of reality (very Western).

New funding opportunity from BEAM! Supporting group/collective healing is a priority for us. Therapists, facilitators folx holding space for Black folx focused on specific things (grief, a mental condition, circumstance, etc) apply today!!

When we have psychologists and psychiatrists using the terms "misdiagnosis" "correct diagnosis," "X amount of people have x disorder," etc., it is clear that MH diagnoses are reified and believed objective in the discourse. This is a central problem.

How Big Pharma monetised depression. 40 years of the disease model...has left us sicker & unhappier than ever before. There's little reason to believe that more of the same will fix our problems, & plenty...to think it will continue to make them worse. unherd.com/2022/10/the-tr…

Some genuinely believe it's possible to ‘reclaim’ the phrase ‘mental illness’, purging it of all its bio-psychiatric, pathologising & stigmatising associations. I'm not convinced at all. If you want to change public perceptions remove the associations, demedicalise the language.

Wow. Didn’t know Bo Burnham was a real one. Couldn’t be more relevant

A generational dumbing-down of the purpose, meaning & multiple drivers of suffering is one of the more insidious effects of medicalisation. We've reduced this vast domain of complex humanity to the simplistic indignity of 'dysfunction' & 'disorder'. Easy, profitable & obtuse.

Open now! Please share with Black parents! We are giving away 21K of mental health economic support in money!!🙏🏾🙏🏾

Medical trainees underestimate the degree to which training is a process of indoctrination into submission to arbitrary authority, accommodation of inequality, and resignation to bureaucratic indifference. And these effects don’t magically disappear when training officially ends.

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