Modern psychiatry is a pseudoscientific institution used by the bourgeois to promote an “ideal” person and legitimize the health consequences of capitalism.
Psychiatrists diagnose anyone that doesn’t conform to the capitalist society as abnormal and in need of fixing. They then attempt to use therapies or drugs to achieve this solution.
As a psychiatrized mentally ill person I’ve mostly had bad experiences the moment a doctor gives me a diagnosis. This branch of medicine is bursting with issues and most of them come from the paternalistic idea that a mentally ill person should be deprived of their autonomy and the following, expected, distress is part of the pathology. The current system doesn’t allow me real help because some of my issues will be met with a dehumanizing hospitalization.
I’m sure talk and drug therapy will always exist, but I expect a very radical change from this discipline. There is no stigma associated with therapy, it’s trendy now. There is stigma against showing signs and symptoms of mental distress.
Comrades need to know that there is help AND that they deserve to keep their autonomy at all times during treatment.
I’m sorry you’ve had those experiences. Being deprived of one’s autonomy, which I take to mean involuntary hospitalization, I imagine is terrifying.