"Many people adopt psychiatric or diagnostic language and frame their experiences as being external to their identity. This is the perspective of having a “mental illness”, a problem they would like to fix or recover from, usually under the direction of clinicians. People who see themselves as having mental health conditions, disorders, disabilities, illnesses, and diseases view their experiences are something external to them so it can be treated and even cured. This narrative is key to the success of the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries, which benefit greatly by being the conduit to that treatment.

Many hold this perspective because they are in desperate pain and need access to care, support, and treatment. The changes people with this view are seeking might actually be more psychiatry—more hospitals, more beds, more clinicians, and easier to access medication/mental health services. The problem is that this perspective barely recognises the significance of trauma, systematic inequalities, spirituality, intergenerational, socio-economic, political, environmental, or relational factors." --Lisa Archibald, Mad in America Blog

Once again, "Words are Things..."- Maya Angelou

https://www.madinamerica.com/2021/09/mad-activists-langauge/

#MadLiberation #MadLib #PsychAbolition #Abolition #MedicalIndustrialComplex

I want my child to live in a world where medical providers care more about supporting, learning from, and celebrating disabled kids instead of shielding abusive medical providers.

Ongoing medical abuse, objectification, and surviving forced eugenics has been a foundational element of the medical system. The time for liberating homebound, medic*lly fr*gile intellectually disabled kids is now!

Please speak out against the hate, and unlearn the supremacist systems of oppression. My child ’s life and the lives of all intellectually disabled kids who are medic*lly fr*gile depend on it! #eugenics #ableism #disability #liberation #MedicalIndustrialComplex

Please, as mask bans continue to accelerate, we need everyone to wear N95 masks in all public settings, indoors, outdoors, in photos.

I am begging you to put disabled kids survival first. My child cannot mask due to an upper airway restriction, unrepairable open palate and other health complications. We have been homebound for most of their 10 years of life.

It is heartbreaking to witness the forced isolation, ostracism, ableist abuse, and celebration of eugenics culture from the left. We need everyone to be fighting for permanent N95 mask mandates in all medical facilities. #ableism #AntiAbleism #MedicalIndustrialComplex #disabled #maskbans #eugenics

-sigh- you give medical providers' offices every benefit of the doubt, but then...

Primary care office: "Call this number to get those records"

Person at number: "What? No, we don't process those records, primary care office does, call them back"

Primary care office: "What? No, we don't process them... wait... here... try this OTHER number..."

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Anyone want to wager money on whether I get an answer on this today?

#UsHealthcareSucks #MedicalIndustrialComplex