Thread by @Proletcultist

There is in fact overwhelming evidence that all of psychiatry and a significant portion of psychology is fundamentally pseudo scientific. It's main role is to act as the mediator of social norms, and in the event that you fall outside of those norms, to either rectify that and

reassert normalcy, or to subject you to intense personal scrutiny. In the event that both of these fail, incarceration is the last remaining option. In the event that you don't supplant the golden calf with the idol of medication, you have no opportunity to leave this system.

The subjugation of the body via physical institution and sublimation of the self into illness is mirrored in our language. The way we understand mental health where emotion language (I have depressed, I feel stressed) is replaced with a language of being. The implied eternal

nature is reflected in the variance of physical and mental illness. "I have cancer" vs "I am bipolar". You would never look at a sick person and say, "you are cancer." It would be unconscionable. There is no attempt to cure it, the only option remaining is palliative care for an

invisible illness that NO science is capable of proving the existence of. You are destined to die because you are now on destructive medication. If you go off medication the invisible disease (not withdrawal of course) will kill you. This does not apply to the rich who are by

virtue of class and deciding what is "normal" exempted from this possibility.

davidhealy.org/the-controlled…
An excellent article on controlled opposition within healthcare from @DrDavidHealy