The biggest lie psychiatry ever told is that normality is sane. This is falsified by social psychology.
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Replying to @jessi_cata
Nicer rephrasing: with the exception of occasional organic disease, most mental illness is on a continuum with “personality”, and “ordinary” family cruelty is on a continuum with the exceptional cases we call abusive.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @jessi_cata
Childhood emotional abuse is common, and screws people up in ways that are *genuinely hard to fix.*
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @jessi_cata
Most claims about human psychology are either made by members of the “traumatized majority” who don’t even know that a healthy and free mind is possible; or, by untraumatized people who are baffled by the behavior of the traumatized and tell them to “just snap out of it!”
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @jessi_cata
I now think that *nobody* can give useful advice about overcoming things like (emotional overreaction, the inner critic, avoidance, panic, people-pleasing) who hasn’t experienced both being fucked up and being free.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @jessi_cata
This is kind of relevant?https://aeon.co/essays/the-voice-of-sadness-is-censored-as-sick-what-if-its-sane …
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Replying to @CharlieBeckett @jessi_cata
Nope. That reads like it’s written by a person currently having a depressive episode. It’s not really gears-level about the mind. Also, depressive realism didn’t replicate.
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I do think our society is too hostile to *non-depressed* negative emotions. Normally, when something bad happens, a person wants to either fix the problem, go be alone, or seek comfort from others. But instead, contemporary America pathologizes all three responses.
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(Seeking comfort is “needy”, seeking solitude is “antisocial”, and putting all your focus on trying to figure out what’s making you miserable and fix it makes you “unproductive” because it’s not doing your dayjob.)
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But this is ordinary, non-depression sadness and anger. It is *not* true that all of life sucks — depression lies. It *is* true that *certain things in one’s life* suck.
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I suspect you can *get* depression from being gaslighted when something sucks but you’re expected to not attend to it in any way and just go on as if it’s normal.
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