“Of potential harms of getting distracted by a more progressive model of mental healthcare by polarized ideas is that it could prevent people from seeking care that they may want, or invalidate experiences of people who have been helped by psychiatry” vice.com/en_us/article/… 1/4
@jonathanstea @JonathanShedler @AllenFrancesMD @VICENews “By claiming that mental illness doesn't exist at all, anti-psychiatry could also lead us astray from much-needed reform within psychiatry, precisely because it seeks not to improve psychiatry, but to tear it down.” 2/4
“There are useful discussions and summaries on Mad in America. Importantly, there are also real experiences and trauma behind many of the posts that discuss the harms patients suffer from psychiatry.” @Mad_In_America @sandysteingard 3/4
“But if a biological model is not enough to explain mental illness, couldn’t it also be true that only a psychosocial model isn’t sufficient either?” @division_55
