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did there used to be an anti-psychiatry community on lemmygrad? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 23 hours ago by chinawatcherwatcher@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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title. i took a few years off of all social media, including lemmygrad, but i could have sworn there was such a community back when i frequented lemmygrad before the break. i found one major post on the topic from 3 years ago and several comments that lead to errors, which i assume is because the posts they were under were deleted or removed. what exactly is the history there? if the community was banned or removed what was the reasoning?

furthermore, just out of curiosity, what are people's opinions on psychiatry, psychology, and the anti-psychiatry movement? i've been doing a lot of thinking and some research on all three as it relates to the development of capitalism and socialism, as well as my own personal experience. to me it seems to be another case in which a marxist framework is necessary to synthesize psychiatry/psychology and anti-psychiatry to come to a fundamentally closer approximation to the truth. topics such as where the line should be drawn between behavioral/biological conditions and the usage/role of psychiatric medication seem to be particularly hot button issues.

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[–] Богданова@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 18 hours ago

Mental health fields, like any other fields really, suffered greatly due to de-communization. And naturally a lot of it did get liberalized, pill pushers are a real thing, over-prescription is a real issue, improper diagnosis, weaponized use of psychiatric wards, the way treatment approaches is shaped will of course be shaped by a Capitalist Society, which at best won't kill their patients: because they know it's better to keep the customer alive.

Which is what Patients are under capitalism, they're Customers, if there's no socialized medicine. One of the biggest blunders that's been ignored by psychoanalysts is well the fact that our society is structured to be unhealthy and how can an unhealthy society produce a healthy mind?

As a result there's a ton of misconceptions related to the field of mental issues, some valid, some are reactionary.

I've seen plenty of people claim that my ADHD can be cured by the ways of Stoicism and Disciplinary action and that's bullshit, it's a neurological condition. Ironically I'm more disciplined than most people who tell me I need to be Disciplined, because I've spent 20+ years bumbling around managing my disorder by sheer force of will.

Ironically, now that people who don't have ADHD see how well I'm doing they think they can replicate my improvements, in productivity or life in general, by consuming the same substances. That's not going to work. Those meds tend to have the opposite effect on those who don't have the disorder. You're essentially giving yourself like a version of ADHD by doing that, which is why it's used as recreational, induced hyperactivity, impulsivity, restlessness.

But you know what? Psychiatry might be able to develop a more permanent cure to my conditions, capitalism won't allow it to happen

Capitalism also won't allow me to go further into detail, because I got to make bread somehow and so if i really did the research I'd want to put that in a book and sell it, because i want to eat. And it's not like I'd give a shit if people bought the book or not. I'd make it freely avaiable, but there's only so much unpaid labor I'm willing to do.