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Indigo Daya Profile picture
@IndigoDaya
May 15, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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I’m furious & heartbroken.

Just saw an ‘antistigma’ ad on schizophrenia from @MHReformVic & @VicGovDH.

This is NOT reform.

It’s more of the same dishonest medicalisation theories & false claims that hospitals are great.

I’m in tears.
1/
#ReformFail
@JamesMerlinoMP Drawing of person doing a face palm. Text says REFORM FAIL
In the ad I saw, a person literally says these experiences are ‘biochemical reactions in my brain’.

What?! That’s just not true. The brain chemistry theory is well & truly busted as myth.

How do we have govt ads making these claims? Is anyone doing basic fact checks?

/2 Drawing of person doing a face palm. Text says REFORM FAIL
Then we hear how meds really helped this guy. Hospital was great!

I guess this reform is going to ignore the police violence, rape, solitary confinement, detention, force & trauma reported to the royal commission?

For all of us abused in the psych system, this is cruel.

/3 Drawing of person doing a face palm. Text says REFORM FAIL
Is this reform going to ignore the fact that psych meds are useless &/or harmful for many of us? That the system is not safe?

Seems like it.

This is not being believed
This is gaslighting
This is psychiatry propaganda
This is going to grow stigma
This will cost lives
/4 Drawing of person doing a face palm. Text says REFORM FAIL
On a personal level, I feel shattered.

Why did I bother testifying to the @RCMentalHealth?

Why did I dedicate months to painful, traumatising & unrelenting advisory work?

Why did I let myself feel hope that real change might come this time?
/5

@MHReformVic
@JamesMerlinoMP Drawing of person doing a face palm. Text says REFORM FAIL

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Indigo Daya Profile picture
Nov 11
🧵Many talk about psych pathologisation but I don’t see much talk about individualisation.

Madness is individualised thru pathologising psych labels, or trauma practices that focus only on bodies & nervous systems, or even thru some ways folks talk about neurodivergence.

1/12 Image of cartoon sad person hunched on the ground, with a big brain. An arrow points to their head saying "The Problem". Above them are a stack of big words, pressing down. They say: colonisation, exploitation, white supremacy, cis-male supremacy, capitalism, child abuse, racism, facism, hate, housing insecurity, ableism, climate crisis, transphobia, sexual violence Heading: Psych labels individualise (and depoliticise) collective problems.
To me, any time we locate mad experiences primarily in the:

body
brain
nervous system
genes
biochemistry
or even in individual humans

—we risk obscuring the collective, political nature of our mad experience.

2/12 Individualisation locates madness in our: brain, genetics, nervous system, emotions, personality - instead of where it belongs, in: capitalism, colonisation, white supremacy, cis-heteropatriarchy, politics and power
This is a re-post from Insta, inviting critical thinking about the ways psych labels function to pathologise, individualise, and maintain oppression.

Despite the massive rhetoric, psych labels are not objective truth.

They're just ideas. Questionable ideas.

3/12 This post is an invitation to think critically about the oppressive function of psych labels. Psych labels are not objective truth. They’re just ideas, made up largely by committees of privileged white cis straight men. These ideas enable massive profits by the mental health industrial complex and violent oppression by the carceral psych system Psych labels do not have the evidence you might think they do and they’re disproportionately used on already oppressed people
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Jan 31
🧵 I dream of a public repository of suicide notes.

1/13 Text from tweet plus black watercolour splatters
As someone who lives with suicide, I’m angry about media guidelines on suicide, produced by the psy industry, that discourage reporting the truth of our deaths & even our own words.

It silences our voices and furthers the injustices that killed us.
/2 Text from tweet plus green watercolour splatters
And I’m angry about how, after we die, the voices of clinicians & families are given more weight in media & coroner’s courts than what we wrote ourselves.

/3 Text from tweet plus green watercolour splatters
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Jan 23, 2023
I got sucked into trying to convince a defensive psychiatrist to change their thinking.

I forgot I'm not interested in that anymore.

My activist tweets are not written for psychiatry. They are for my own hurt spirit & for other victims and survivors of carceral psychiatry.
I used to care about changing the system. I spent 9y as a survivor advocate inside the mental health system, in govt policy, peak bodies, services.

I learned that psychiatrists don't want to listen to those they have oppressed, abused and injured. They don't want to change.
I argued that #NotAllPsychiatrists was a bullshit position, which is true. There are so many parallels between my rapes and how psychiatry treated me.

But I was drawn to thinking about how the catholic church has silenced survivors. Different, and yet... too many ugly parallels.
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Dec 8, 2022
We get told many ignorant, cruel stories about #SelfInjury & why we do it.

I feel like doing a myth-busting thread, with some of the real reasons from my own life.

Understanding *why* is important.

It can give us power to make the choices that are right for us.

1/
#selfharm The word ‘me’ is painted on...
Transforming pain

It’s hard to feel two kinds of different pain at once.

So sometimes, if my emotional pain feels unbearable, I create physical pain—like a kind of alchemy. It still hurts but it’s often more bearable.

This kind of SI can help keep me alive.

2/
Shame & punishment

The worst ongoing impact of child abuse for me is shame. It’s insidious. Sometimes my SI is a response to that, a way of trying to feel like a good person.

This is often hidden, very private SI. Sometimes it makes shame worse, sometimes it helps.

3/
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Aug 19, 2022
Since releasing the Seclusion Report I can’t count how many times I’ve heard of #MentalHealth nurses saying ‘it’s not possible to eliminate seclusion & restraint because of occupational violence’.

I call bullshit on that excuse, and here’s why… 🧵

1/6
The cause of seclusion is not because we’re aggressive towards you.

The cause is *your* violent practice—and the larger violent system you work in.

2/6
Yep sometimes we’re aggressive towards you. That’s because

You
Are
A
Threat

So maybe stop that.

What do I mean by threat? You lock us up, force treatments, impose punitive infantilising rules, ignore & judge us, breach our rights. It’s normal to fight back against that.

3/6
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Jul 22, 2022
For me, the big issue behind the serotonin myth about ‘antidepressants’ is not about whether they’re helpful for some folks.

It’s about a false narrative being so dominant that it has facilitated hiding/ignoring/denying collective injustices that hurt us.
Of course some people find these drugs helpful.

Others find cannabis or heroin or sex or mindfulness or self-injury helpful. If it’s right for you that’s great.

There should be no judgement for any of us surviving as best we can. Shit is hard.

That’s not the point IMO.
The point is that the great serotonin myth has taught us as a society to locate distress inside the broken brains of individuals.

Promoting narratives like ‘sick not weak’.
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