And that's the same ideology that's cut our social safety nets & destroyed our communities. We challenge the assumptions of bio-psychiatry, who's "medical model" assumes that mental health issues are the result of chemical imbalances in the brain.īiopsychiatry is the belief that the problems and solutions of our lives are located solely in the individual. We should return the pathologizing gaze to our crazy-making world.Īnd see the movement of people viewed as "not normal" is often simply activism like being anti-racist, pro-queer, anti-corporate, anti-war, etc. We must unlearn social conditioning from years of drug treatment, schooling, & behavior modification programs. And the silence of the public is not being "mentally healthy." Strong emotional reactions to injustice are not wrong, they are human. They have a history of diagnosing entire groups (queer, black, poor, women, trans, sick, or simply abnormal) to justify violence & exclusion. Their tools of social domination have grown into a global industrial complex that profits from framing our experiences as chronic illnesses. Psychiatric interventions are the result of relations of power, & the powerful benefit from controlling & silencing how we speak about an unjust world. Mental health is about politics & social inequality. Our differences shouldn't be defined by authority figures intent on fitting us into narrow versions of “normality,” who simply stereotype people with medical language. We have a different perspective of “mental health” & “mental illness.” We value diversity & see there's no single model for a “healthy mind.”
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