The mentally healthy man is a construction. Neurodiversity has been pathologized to oppress dissident thinking. If you have difficulty integrating into a profoundly sick society, that’s a symptom of health… not illness. Insanity cannot be measured by a person’s capacity to integrate into a Bourgeois dictatorship. Psychiatrists numb the symptoms of capitalist dysfunction with drugs. There’s a contradiction between helping people and exploiting their disability to turn a profit out of self-interest. I put forward the unpopular opinion that medical professionals are enemies of the people so long as they refuse to go on a mass strike. I put forward the idea that taking pharmaceutical drugs to ‘cure’ people’s idiosyncratic perceptions of the world is reactionary. Another contradiction of psychiatric doctors ‘helping’ people by drugging their unsatisfaction with the world is the coercive element of forced hospitalizations on the basis of their own right to choose whether to live or die. Ultimately psychiatric doctors have responsibilities to the corporate hospitals that employ them and the self-interest motive is a contradiction. Suicide prevention is psychic colonialism meant to keep wages down by keeping the pool of miserable unemployed people deep. Psychology will never help anybody as long as we have a capitalist economy that distorts our idea of health.
I do believe in the choice to take medication for ‘mental illness’ if one wishes. I take issue with the coercive element and with these contradictions.
Nobody in the imperial core is innocent. Sorry, it’s an inconvenient truth but we have failed the world by our indifference. Everything we do is entangled in a web of imperialism and massacre. Only when we attain a dictatorship of peasants and labourers in the U.S. will the beginning of the end of our indifference take form.
Thank you for giving me a space to share my thoughts.
