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First time I bought a "ticket" to an online event, and I am stoked.
"A disorder for everyone" festival - put together by @dropthedisorder to resist medicalising every human emotion as a "mental illness" - is now LIVE. +
http://www.adisorder4everyone.com/events/ pic.twitter.com/ZUWXR6Murc
WOW.
We start with the words of Pakistani queer Muslim activist/writer/trainee clinical psychologist Sanah Ahsan:
"They call it ‘depression’, while you call it survival from oppression. Remember they once labelled runaway slaves as mentally ill for desiring freedom." +
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Do watch this video in which Sanah reads out the full poem, which she calls 'Decolonising Distress'.
Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CCDbyWYFvQw/?igshid=1e8m4yfnppsf …
#ADisorderForEveryone
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.@ClinpsychLucy draws a lucid distinction between "diagnosis" in psychiatry vs the rest of medicine.
Core difference: How a person "feels" mentally CANNOT be a "medical judgment". It is a "social judgment".
Who decides you are "bizarre" or "peculiar"? No blood tests can tell. +pic.twitter.com/Rbag4K7Epx
@ClinpsychLucy:
How the Global Mental Health Movement (caps deliberate) exports the western model of medicalising every "disorder". @sumanfernando calls it a new form of "colonialism".
The Lancet Psychiatry recently conceded that this "global movement" has failed. +pic.twitter.com/0cXbqdZ6yB
As a journalist + user/survivor, I've been torn between the importance of diagnosis as a tool for us to access rights and services, and the danger that it reduces our complex stories to an Rx. That said - "Global Mental Health Movement" - good riddance! +https://twitter.com/toymango/status/1289501185108348928 …
*HUGE*
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30348-5/fulltext …(Trigger warning)
Next up, @IndigoDaya.
Oh. my. god. What *powerful* art.
"In 9 years, no one ever asked me: 'what happened to you, Indigo? Did you ever experience trauma?'"
Her story:
https://twitter.com/IndigoDaya/status/1221627774625992704?s=20 …
Thank you for sharing your life with us Daya. 
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Trembling as I listen to @IndigoDaya.
She says she heard voices, had a "judge", a "beast" living insider her. Voices of self-loathing.
She's now turning that "beast" into "the injured lover".
I've lived with that voice too. I'm trying to love it too.
#ADisorderForEveryone +pic.twitter.com/o065GKTckc
This is crushing.
Poet @RuthEDixon is rapping on all the chemicals they injected into her mother, Andrea.
I lost years of my life to psychiatric mismedication. I am angry right now for Ruth, her mom Andrea. For all of us 'labelled' away as nuisances.
#ADisorderForEveryone
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We need more voices like @peterkinderman.
An "expert", a voice of "authority", a stalwart of clinical psychology being powerfully vulnerable.
As the father of a 2.5 year old, I live the fear of 'heredity' Peter alludes to:
Will I infect my son with my illness?+pic.twitter.com/lcP8KZkRyK
"We don't need to patronise people because they are "ill". We need to free them from the system that rendered them [vulnerable]."
- @peterkinderman
#adisorder4everyone
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"People I'm close to have been saved by psychiatric medication. But that doesn't mean they need to be given a diagnosis of schizophrenia and sent away to be 'treated' for the rest of their lives." - @peterkinderman
You can *benefit from pills* without being *labelled*. +pic.twitter.com/P9vlFyAk0t
"This isn't about saying, 'There's no such thing as schizophrenia'." This is about plurality of choice.
With right wing governments, individual choice can be reduced to a state-endorsed menu. But @peterkinderman is hopeful that the internet will preserve plurality.+
"Renaming painful normality as abnormality has created a mental disorder pandemic," says @JamesDaivesPhD. "A group of theologians declaring they agree god exists doesn't mean god exists. How is a group psychiatrists agreeing to call certain things 'disorders' different?"
BOOM.+pic.twitter.com/LZprMIQwwg
FUCK. Banging my head against my desk and laughing in horror as James Davies explains the TRAVESTY that the bible of psychiatric diagnosis - the DSM - is. Especially DSM3, which added fanciful new disorders into its monstrous litany. Here's how the "committee" worked. FUCK. +pic.twitter.com/GntynmOt7Z
Poet and performer @ShareClaw answers the question: What about people who like the fact that they have a diagnosis?
"I'd say it merits investigating why they feel that way through therapy. [Diagnostic labels are like] saying you like being called a liar or a thief." +pic.twitter.com/m5vDcZy4yP
Says @johannhari101:
"There's been an explosion of 'depression' and 'anxiety' in the 6 months of COVID. Why? What happened? Our brains didn't randomly evolve in 6 months, right?!
No. COVID simply accelerated a lot of the triggers of distress: eg, financial insecurity."
Yup.+pic.twitter.com/Vx2bUymX7W
As a Jewish child born during WWII, losing family to the Holocaust, Gabor Maté understands trauma profoundly well.
@ClinpsychLucy: What about people with no obvious trauma and yet suffering mentally?
Maté: Different people have different ideas of God. Same with trauma.
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Okay people. Fun as it has been to live tweet @dropthedisorder's #adisorder4everyone festival, it's also been a long, tiring day. Before I end this thread, two final highlights.
1. @AkimaThomas presented the richly nuanced HER model of responding to trauma:
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And to end this thread, @ClinpsychLucy's 'Power Threat Meaning' framework, centered on the one question often criminally neglected in mental healthcare:
"What *happened* to you?"
Not
"What's *wrong* with you?"
Thanks @dropthedisorder for a great day. Good night! 
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