lumpenproletariatYou down with o.d.d.?
MsPenguinette
DiplomjodlerAuthoritarian regimes have a long history of using psychiatric diagnoses to discredit and imprison dissidents. This is where the US are headed right now. They’re already doing it with trans people but they surely won’t stop there.
Member RFK Jr talking about sending the ‘mentally ill’ to forced labor camps as treatment? I member.
Now just diagnose resistance to the regime as a mental illness, and…
similar vein on how slaves wanting to be free was considered a mental disorder
Yeah, you know me
I do think people can have an unhealthy mental schema of opposing and defying others, which doesn’t go away in an anarchist society. It’s not nice if, after fully consenting to a schedule of who does the dishes when, you have a panic attack when it’s your turn because now you have to do the dishes.
This schema will tend to trigger more often in hierarchical situations. But even then, it’s better if you defy authority because you want to and you expect things to end well, rather than because you feel like you have no other choice.
That said, the APA is authoritarian garbage and the DSM should not be respected.
PugJesusODD is a real thing. While diagnoses can be misused, especially by authoritarian governments, in general, psychs are neither particularly ‘trigger-happy’ about making serious diagnoses like that (especially for things that have no easy treatment, like ODD), nor is that an opinion cultivated in academic psychological literature, which often consists of psychs arguing over what should and should not be counted as a disorder in light of both personal variation and what is actually innate (or developed) vs. evoked by circumstances or valued by society.
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