24/09/2026
What if I told you that your trauma, abuse, and distress has been pathologised into mental disorders you never had in order to locate the problem within your brain instead of within the people or society that harmed you?
What if I told you that this led you to believe you were broken and incurable with some invisible ‘mental illness’ whilst your abusers carried on unscathed?
I am an anti-pathology psychologist. I validate the trauma, the abuse, and the reasons for suffering - I do not support the use of ‘mental disorders’ or psychiatry at all.Â
We must remember that the medical model of mental health is just a theory, it’s just a lens. We don’t need to use it. We don’t need to subscribe to it. We can work through our feelings, behaviours and traumas without pathologising them into mental illnesses, personality disorders and supposed chemical imbalances in the brain.
We also need to look at the impact of pathologisation on the victim - because their mental health will be used against them when they disclose.
If you resonate with any of this, I have free resources, endless social media posts on this topic, a free blog with all my articles and I see clients 1:1, and I advocate and provide expert support in legal cases of pathologisation of abuse victims too.