Hey can we start talking about the damage we've done in the past 30 maybe 40 years to kids with "behavioral issues" by pumping them full of sedatives and mood stabilizers.
Can we talk about how kids get on sedatives and suppressors as children and grow up as adults with stunted emotional intelligence.
Or children who become addicted to uppers and downers and find themselves chasing highs and lows they've been experiencing since grade school.
How Self-Care Culture revolves around psychiatry, a tool used to oppress and incarcerate.
Antipsychiatry is alive and swinging, I swear. But also, psych "overmedication" has affected those marginalized proletarized/racialized/disabled more. It is an invisible or non issue to those most privileged. The conversations about these drugs not living up to what was promised have been happening, just not so much in the mainstream. But people have been putting up a fight against it, making theory and pushing for reforms for decades if not more.
