Meanwhile those who rule over us are busy actually erasing/altering actual pathologies like psychopathic from clinical diagnosis books, because they will not tolerate calling things what they actually are. That also applies to your main point. Along with “toughen up buttercup”, we need to bring back “calling a spade a spade.”
YES. I have autistic kids, and not the just quirky kind. The low-verbal and self-abusing kind who can’t master their own bodies. I refuse to medicate them, even though everyone says to. (I obediently did for a while, and it was terrible.) And now ridiculous humans are trying to erase real pathologies in the name of inclusion and people are rushing to diagnose themselves to belong. It’s ridiculous and dangerous and ignores the real problem that - as much as I love the Gato here, he doesn’t recognize, either.
But I will always support a rant against antidepressants. Medication is killing us.
Thanks, I was wondering if anyone else was thinking the same thing I was.
And just as it isn’t compassionate to protect our kids from struggle, it isn’t compassionate to tell someone who is struggling with psychological damage that they are normal. Medication isn’t the answer either - something happened to screw them up and it needs to be dealt with, not ignored, normalized, or drugged into oblivion.
Meanwhile those who rule over us are busy actually erasing/altering actual pathologies like psychopathic from clinical diagnosis books, because they will not tolerate calling things what they actually are. That also applies to your main point. Along with “toughen up buttercup”, we need to bring back “calling a spade a spade.”
YES. I have autistic kids, and not the just quirky kind. The low-verbal and self-abusing kind who can’t master their own bodies. I refuse to medicate them, even though everyone says to. (I obediently did for a while, and it was terrible.) And now ridiculous humans are trying to erase real pathologies in the name of inclusion and people are rushing to diagnose themselves to belong. It’s ridiculous and dangerous and ignores the real problem that - as much as I love the Gato here, he doesn’t recognize, either.
But I will always support a rant against antidepressants. Medication is killing us.
Exactly, which is why I had to rewrite Dr. Roger McMillen's tweet to read:
Myself, and many others, are fed up with psychiatric disorders being turned into normal human experiences.
For decades, we have been normalizing aberrant behavior...
Thanks, I was wondering if anyone else was thinking the same thing I was.
And just as it isn’t compassionate to protect our kids from struggle, it isn’t compassionate to tell someone who is struggling with psychological damage that they are normal. Medication isn’t the answer either - something happened to screw them up and it needs to be dealt with, not ignored, normalized, or drugged into oblivion.