Some say psychiatry is about social control. For me the issue is distress and functioning. With the latter this does raise the issue of ‘not functioning’ v 'not functioning as the State wants ’ How much are we supposed to adhere to a blueprint-capitalism is always good/profit is next to Godliness/Individualism trumps collectivism etc ?
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I has this thought too that psychiatric is a kind of social control,but when I am stable with medication,I believe what’s real,the social control is not real…
I dont function well - I no longer can work, and everything throws me off - I cannot take even small amounts of stress.
Many doctors see me as being schizoaffective as the bigger picture - focus in more and I have bipolar disorder.
My last psychologist thought that I was on the schizoaffective scale, because of my diminished functionality - people with classic bipolar type 1 function better than many people diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizoaffective.
I have a hard time functioning, especially on a social level -
My current pdoc has not abandoned the schizoaffective diagnosis for me - she told me once that sometimes schizoaffective disorder and bipolar can be the same thing for certain people - how well someone functions is also key.
My official DX on paper might still be Schizoaffective -
Psychiatry is a form of social control, the meds are not as complicated as many think - they were designed to sedate and pacify, if you really think about it.
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I do kind of see the mentally ill as the testing ground for the production of drugs that could control the masses. Thx 1138 ■■■■.
Poo I farted.
Did you take your meds?
I personally have never thought any psychiatrist was practicing social control on me. I always felt that they were just trying to solve my problems. I guess you could label that social control if you want. I call it talk therapy.
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Thomas Sazz speaks about this in his lectures about “anti psychiatry”. He is a big believer in capitalism and free choice. I believe that it is a pity that soceity dont have an answer except for drugging people. It wouldnt be so much of a problem if only because the drugs can have severe side effects. I do however also agree with Sazz that coercion is morally a problem, when the so called treatments pose risks. But psychiatry and the way things are practioned is what most people want I guess.
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Well it is. They’ll replace methadone clinics with laboratories with experimental drugs and sell them to the youth, party pills and legal highs have been very popular lately. Pretty soon there will be this new awesome drug, completely experimental, that could cause severe consequences/ you never trust any drug with your life. I’d rather be mad then a prisoner.
There are a lot of published points of views out there. My medication calms me down enough so I can reason (correctly). Everyone else is whipping around real fast. There I stand in the middle of it, trying to think at all. I can see them moving real fast. I’m slow as a turtle. At least I’m thinking.