@SameiHuda has argued that it’s helpful to medicalise social problems:

https://twitter.com/sameihuda/status/1258725271261323264?s=21

I say that’s the last thing we should ever want.

Psychiatry does this all the time to survivors of #abuse, with truly terrible implications.

Here’s what it really means... (1/6)

1. A child is abused.

2. She is told it is shameful, to keep it secret.

3. So she suffers in silence, and the shame grows inside her.

4. As the years pass, her distress becomes unbearable. She hears voices telling her she is evil. She injures herself...
(2/6)

5. A psychiatrist diagnoses her with schizophrenia.

6. The psychiatrist tells the woman she has a disease in her brain. She no longer trusts herself. She believes it’s all her own fault. Just like her abuser intended...
(3/6)

7. This woman is medicated until she can hardly function. The shame still eats at her, unseen, except as a ‘medical problem’.

8. One day, the woman realises she can never seek justice. Even if she reported the abuse to police, her diagnosis means they’d discredit her...
(4/6)

9. The abuser gets away with it, and goes on to hurt many other children.

10. The woman realises her abuser was right. No-one believed her. No-one helped...
(5/6)

This is what happens when the horrific social problem of child abuse is turned into a medical problem by psychiatry.

Abuse is covered up and continues. Justice is erased. Shame destroys our lives.

Medicalising social problems serves abusers, not survivors.

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