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one time, a doctor told me that BPD was "a sexist way of telling someone they had PTSD." they also told me "most people with BPD have experienced some form of childhood sexual abuse.*
and *stares into camera*,
it's almost like things other than "going to war in a military" can cause trauma disorders.
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it's not that women & queer people & bipoc are inherently more mentally ill. it's that the definition of mentally ill was created to manage, marginalize and control us.
the categorization intends to turn our trauma responses, discomfort, dissent, differeing values .... into individual pathologies, and not rational, reasonable and collective responses to mass societal trauma and fundamentally abusive social structures.
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for the most part, cis-male therapists used to tell me i have bi-polar or BPD. woman & queer therapist diagnosed me with PTSD.
once i got the resources & clear headedness to advocate for myself, i did standard PTSD therapy. i rested a LOT. i fixed a few problems in my life. and now i do not have a diagnosable mental illness.
please tell me who it serves to slap lifelong, "you'll never get better & there's no way to fix this" tags on patients.
please tell me who profits from that.
please tell me who suffers.
*grabs a pitchfork*
and let's change this paradigm, pls.
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today's reminder that the mental health & asylum industries came about as a way to incarcerate undesirables & people who challenged the white supremacist & cishetero-patriarchy.
DomiLeaf
Those who traffic in labels such as "Mentally Ill" often use them as an excuse to categorically dismiss every iota of dialogue produced by a person
Those who live outside the normative view of the majority are all too familiar with the sensation.
They hear you speak, but do not understand your words.
Do not fall into the assumption that this couldn't be you. Always be aware of when you have shut your mind to someone trying to communicate. Never fail to ask yourself why that is.
Compassion requires that we listen; to ourselves, to our comrades, and most especially those we would rather not hear.
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