title. i took a few years off of all social media, including lemmygrad, but i could have sworn there was such a community back when i frequented lemmygrad before the break. i found one major post on the topic from 3 years ago and several comments that lead to errors, which i assume is because the posts they were under were deleted or removed. what exactly is the history there? if the community was banned or removed what was the reasoning?
furthermore, just out of curiosity, what are people’s opinions on psychiatry, psychology, and the anti-psychiatry movement? i’ve been doing a lot of thinking and some research on all three as it relates to the development of capitalism and socialism, as well as my own personal experience. to me it seems to be another case in which a marxist framework is necessary to synthesize psychiatry/psychology and anti-psychiatry to come to a fundamentally closer approximation to the truth. topics such as where the line should be drawn between behavioral/biological conditions and the usage/role of psychiatric medication seem to be particularly hot button issues.
I remember big arguments about that stuff but not the specifics. IMHO, therapy can work for some people, and fail for others. Same way with physiological treatments. Going straight to drugs for every problem is what the capitalist pharmaceutical industry would love for you to do. And I see that option thrown at you the SECOND to mention a potential neurological condition. This leads to a lot of over prescriptions and misdiagnosis. People coming out worse then going in. It yields a distrust in the system that has a rebound effect of causing some people to say it’s ALL bad. Same with therapy. “It didn’t work for me so it’s all bad.”
IMO, both of those sentiments are reactionary. The brain and the human thought process is super complicated. We BARELY understand it. We may know a ton more now then every before, but it’s still barely scratching the surface. And while just throwing SSRIs at everything right out of the gate is truly not a great idea, so is saying we shouldn’t do anything.
Same with therapy. Western therapy is designed to mitigate people realizing that most of their issues with anxiety and depression are the system they live in. So western therapy is mainly about how to cope with the system and accept that you can’t change it so why try? So when you problem is related to the system, or a straight up neurological issues, therapy isn’t going to do a whole lot for you. That being said, I know several people that have had issues within themselves that have done therapy and got a lot of help.
The main issue is simply that these things will never be used correctly under capitalism. In a sane society these things are used to treat and cure real issues. In a capitalist system they are just ways to use people to make profit. Fixing an issue is a byproduct of you making rich people richer. And actually curing people is a taboo cause you don’t get more money out of a cured patient. Don’t fix a joint when you can just give them cortisone injections for pain for the rest of their life. Don’t try different medications that can potentially lead to long term cures for neurological conditions. Just give them shit that suppresses the symptoms, that they have to take for the rest of their life. But just because capitalism ruins something, doesn’t mean we should simply abandon it outright.