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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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[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 hours ago

Mental health is inseparable from worldview, so it gets co-opted in various ways to push the dominant ideology and that means a corralling effect under capitalism; if you stand out, it's meant to draw you back in and functioning "appropriately" under its world model.

But that doesn't mean all of the disorders (which are essentially repeating clusters of behavior and cognition brought under a specific label) are made up, or aren't observing real things. It just means that the way those labels get applied and categorized is tainted by the dominant model. A person who has chronic anxiety isn't bothered by this because capitalism, but because they want to stop feeling that way all the time. But capitalism could very well be the cause for them in various ways. But then there are things like ADHD which are shown to be at least partly the brain itself, not just a reaction to the environment. And there is also the transition aspect of things to keep in mind. If capitalism was replaced with fully automated luxury gay space communism tomorrow, there'd still be people acting like disorder categorizations that developed under capitalism and many of them would still be suffering in various ways because the ingrained behaviors and thought processes and belief systems are still there.