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From Sexy But Psycho:
We have been deliberately encouraged to stop using words like ‘disorder’ and ‘illness’ despite mental health issues still being classified as ‘abnormalities’ and ‘syndromes’ and ‘disorders of the mind’. The language changed, but the concept didn’t.
From Sexy But Psycho:
We have been deliberately encouraged to stop using words like ‘disorder’ and ‘illness’ despite mental health issues still being classified as ‘abnormalities’ and ‘syndromes’ and ‘disorders of the mind’. The language changed, but the concept didn’t.
2. The evolution & history of language about psychiatric diagnosis of women is vital to understanding why it is so oppressive. People think it’s based on science, but it’s based purely on religion & ideology.
3. Most of what people quote is simply a theory. Yet, they believe it has been proven to be the one correct explanation for mental health. This is mainly due to aggressive marketing, as there is no singular accepted theory of mental health and never has been.
4. The language changed from calling women possessed witches to calling them sick and insane when the witch trials were made illegal.
5. It was the quickest and most legitimate way for the church to continue locking up and controlling women. The main ‘cure’ for ‘insanity’ and ‘sickness’ in women was to convert them to Christianity and to put them in an asylum.
6. As feminists, and as professionals, we owe it to every woman and girl we know to learn about, and understand the dark and oppressive history and evolution of psychiatry, psychology and mental health.
7. Being female positively correlates with every single diagnosis in the DSMV. As a female, you are much more likely to be diagnosed with 3+ psychiatric disorders than males.
Make no mistake, psychiatry is no ally to feminism or to female liberation. Never was. Never will be.
Make no mistake, psychiatry is no ally to feminism or to female liberation. Never was. Never will be.
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