Feminists using the word patriarchy unironically in the big 26. Im pretty sure they believe we still live in Taliban. middle class/upper middle class White women are statistically the most privileged and protected group of people on the planet but sure bro, there is a conspiracy against women made by men. sure.
demo tape 1, 2, 3 in order
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988 operates as a triage line, not a treatment line. Its core function is call volume management for the broader crisis system, and assess legal mandate to notify emergency services (most of the time not the option you'd want.)
It's basically a federally designated number routes to a network of local call centers. Funding comes from SAMHSA, distributed through states. Staffing is mostly trained volunteers and some licensed clinicians, depending on the center. The lie lives on the fact that people are sold the narrative that this hotline is supposed "help" people through crisis with "support", when in reality most of the time it's just a nothing burger to prolong calls until risk assesment can be made. Before 988, 911 absorbed alot of these calls, so the whole pitch was that it would help reduce strain on the system by redistrubuting mental health calls to a 3-digit number (launched in july 16, 2022.)
Basically, If you say the wrong thing, they can sort you out between "Can be talked down." and "Needs a psych hold." At the institutional level, it's crowd control. 911 was never designed for mental health calls, and cops were botching them so publicly, so often, that it became a PR crisis. Every viral video of police shooting a person in crisis was a branding disaster, and 988 exists to absorb that pressure. It's the "see, we're doing something" response, which technically, they did (🥰)
And at the economic level, it's a customer acquisition funnel. Why fund non-coercive options or fix material conditions when you can generate more customers from each "mandated" hold and pharmaceutical billing?
This is not to say every volunteer for a crisis line or what not is "evil", I am not talking about indiviuals per se, but what it functions as. Involuntary holds lead to hospital beds, hospital leads to billing, billing leads to follow-up and prescriptions and a thousand other details. That's not to say everyone in that chain of events is some evil grifter, but it clearly generates alot of money. The core grift is that its sold as this life-or-death "intervention" to anyone in distress when rarely if at all it can marginally help a crisis pass ON ITS OWN purely by waiting it out, no more than you'd scroll on your phone or say watch Netflix or chat to an LLM. Alot of the mental health infrastructure just defaults to "Call 988 or X hotline" because its easier to cut budgets by deflecting people to another service already doing the grift then to actually engage yourself, though its more like a decentralized system with secondary outcomes than a top-down conspiracy"
Its always been a tool of social control. It's primary function is to pathologize humans and absorb dissent. They did it to slaves "drapetomania" (the desire to escape was seen as illness.) "sluggish schizophrenia" (the soviet state's justification for forced "treatmemt" of political dissidents) and much more, like Hysteria, Personality disorders, Opposational defiant disorder, etc.
It makes a permanent underclass by medicating them and making them pay for their own compliance, with the treatment being zombie meds that flatten your mood, your life, makes you gain weight, and a whole load of other side effects, all of which conveniently leads to more drugs funded by big pharma. The whole thing is a catch-22. Patient disagrees with "treatment"? that shows they need more treatment because their disagreement is a proof of their illness. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
A lucrative way for people with resources and connections to make wealth by abusing power over the vulnerable with the medical "justification" being a manual written by commitees and big pharma to sell people more drugs and trap more people into permanent consumers and self-policing, brainless folk. Personality disorders are the logical endpoint of this; You are not just ill but your entire personality is a disorder, you're inconvenient, and we decided your existence is moral failure. Funny how it checks out on labels like BPD overwhelmingly applied on women who are traumatized, sexually active, or have "unstable relationships", and the term "borderline" being the ultimate bogeeyman for any white coat.