08/07/2026
Amen to this 🙏❤️
It is imperative that people realise the gameplay.
If suffering, trauma, oppression and abuse is all in our minds - no one has to address or apprehend perpetrators or toxic social systems or cultures.
If everyone is suffering from an incurable ‘mental disorder’ that can only be ‘managed’ with medications - there is immense profit to be made each year (hundreds of billions of dollars).
If everyone is suffering from ‘mental health issues’ but no one ever develops blood tests, brain scans, genetic tests or any other form of biomarker-based objective tests - all diagnosis can remain completely subjective and based on the opinion of just one person. You therefore cannot prove or disprove that you are ‘sane’ - and the system can use a diagnosis against you without any way to prove it is wrong.
If victims of all forms of trauma and violence can be convinced that their problems are inside their minds, they don’t rise up or demand any justice.
Psychiatry is not a helping profession, it’s a very old form of oppression that began by targeting, torturing, abusing and imprisoning marginalised groups of people. Psychiatry at its core is inherently racist, homophobic and misogynistic - hence why being Black/Indigenous was a mental disorder, being gay was a mental disorder and being a woman was a mental disorder. Learning the history of psychology and psychiatry is absolutely vital to understand why now, 100 years later, we slap labels on everyone and hand them a box of pills - but never address or validate the trauma and stress they are going through.
You are NOT going crazy. Your responses and coping mechanisms are there for a reason - no matter how much they do your head in. Humans do not develop behavioural or emotional responses for no reason. They always have a root somewhere.
This is why I am an anti-pathology psychologist, and this is why I work, teach, lecture, and write in the way I do. Telling people who are suffering that they are ‘mentally ill’ is peak gaslighting and our entire approach to mental health is wrong.
