r/radicalmentalhealth

Here's a post I posted elsewhere that I think might interest this subreddit! I hope you enjoy it! (Sorry in advance if English is not my first language.)

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Honestly, there is little doubt that the DSM is not aimed at healing anything, and if it is anything today, it is closer to a torture manual than anything else. Let's just look at the facts of psychiatry (and the mental health business as a whole). Maybe it will dawn on you that the DSM really is just a guide to make people miserable.

**Mental health professionals don't have any incentive to heal anything.** Contrary to any other medical field, psychiatry deals with invisible illnesses. So whatever they say about you, they will never have any tangible proof of what they diagnose you with. It's all interpretation of your words and you behavior. *(Your psychiatrist can't organize your discourse to easily make sense of it? He will observe "disorganized thinking", even though he never saw your thinking, and diagnose you with psychosis and then tell the judge you are an imminent danger to force hospitalization.)* So whatever they diagnose, they don't really need to solve it because there was never proof that it was there to begin with. So they can just write a story about you getting better even though you are feeling worse and worse the more you are being treated.
**Mental health professionals have an incentive to not heal anything.** When you consider the fact that the illnesses are invisible, and therefore the only proof there was anything is the medical file that the psychiatrist composes, the only incentive left is that of actually not healing anything. They are paid to treat, not to heal! They don't have to do a refund at the next hospitalization if the previous one didn't have any long-term lasting effect. They have an incentive to TREAT! So they need only to mistreat you, so you get worse, to make sure that you are a returning customer. *(That is why therapists don't say what they think to their patients! They want to keep you coming back. If they said anything true to you, you'd heal way too quickly and they'd lose a customer.*) So the general strategy in the business is to not say what's what to the patients, so they keep coming back, which increases the demand for their service and thus increases prices. Mental health business has an economic interest in being a misery business, by giving the wrong advice online so you get worse and decide to consult a professional that will milk you for years of treatment, and orchestrate your breakthrough when they are sick of seeing you with all your problems.
**Psychiatry came from psychology.** But... psychology ~~is~~ was a descriptive science, not a normative medical field! That means that when psychology first mapped the human psyche, it was not in a normative way saying what's wrong and what's right, like a medical field would do by saying what's healthy and what's not. It was just describing what it discovered. When they had established the categories of human behaviors, we had some sort of atlas or anatomy of the human mind. When psychiatry was invented, they just took all these categories and called them "diagnoses". They turned the whole spectrum of human behavior into pathologies, so they could treat each and everyone for pretty much anything. That means that nothing is actually broken. Considering that psychology's categories were a map of the human mind, it would be normal that we have most of the diagnoses of the DSM. When they give you a diagnosis, they are just saying something like "you have an eye", not "you have a broken eye". That's why when you start self-diagnosing a mental "illness", you are very likely to end up having it! Most of us have pretty much most of the diagnoses. But they don't want you self-diagnosing.
**Self-diagnoses are discredited.** They don't want you to self-diagnose because they say "you can't have an objective view on your mental health"... but seriously, who can? The illnesses are invisible. Hell, the mental is invisible except to the self. Self-diagnoses are as objective as diagnoses can be in the field of mental health. *You are the only who has ever seen your mental at all!* A mental health professional tries to guess what you could possibly have by interpreting what you say or what you do, in the worst possible way in all probability, to give you the worse diagnosis possible so it can ensure you get the maximum amount of treatment because that's what makes their ~~business~~ scam work.
**They are still in charge of diagnosing "autism".** How is autism even in the field of psychiatry and neuropsychology? It's a neurological condition! It is not a behavior problem. You should be able to be in a coma and the professional should be able to still diagnose your autism! The diagnosis means having a unique brain structure with little white matter and a lot of grey matter. How come they don't diagnose it with a brain scan? *Instead, they interview your parents about your behavior more than 20 years ago when it is time to diagnose your autism when you are 30? They say it's because having it at 4 yo is a criterion, but it is only a criterion because the guy who discovered the condition was studying 4 yo children. Try to prove you were autistic at 4 when you are 30! It's impossible!! It's the only diagnosis that is a lifelong condition that needs to be diagnosed twice, one retrospectively. Why do they keep the 4 yo criterion?* Because they don't really care about their diagnoses reflecting the actual condition. They care about being able to say who's what.
**They categorize people in jugement valued diagnoses.** Diagnoses are not neutral terms. They are a jugement value on people. Each diagnosis comes with a label, which ordinary medecine doesn't really have. When someone gets a medical condition, unless it is contagious, people don't feel the need to defend themselves against you. Such is not the case with mental health. As soon as you have a diagnosis, people get suspicious like "what are you broken/toxic/bad?". But then, when they actually hear what's the diagnosis, they might cut you off from their lives! This doesn't happen in real diagnoses! At worst, if you're contagious, they might isolate from you until you are healed, unless it is HIV and your surroundings are homophobic... But even then, it's the homophobia that's at fault here, not the diagnosis itself. Google "borderline" and the impression you get from the diagnosis is that borderlines are like psychopaths that don't even have the merit of wanting to be the bad person they are and doing the bad they do all around them. #MentalHealthAwareness feels more like a smear campaign when it should be more like a PR campaign that say how people with such and such diagnosis are actually good people to be around. It is not the case! They tell people how much they suffer, are delibitated and guide friends and family into safeguarding themselves from the possibility of being hurt by you, so they're on the defensive around you. It's really meant to isolate you and make authentic relationships impossible.
**Mental health diagnoses are generally uncurable "illnesses".** At least real doctors can cure most of their illnesses and are genuinely seeking a cure for the rest. Psychiatrists can't cure most of their diagnoses and are nowhere near finding the cause for a whole bunch of them. How come they tell borderlines to go 10 years into therapy just to get a chance at maybe not meeting the criteria for diagnoses even though it won't cure the condition? They prescribe 10 years of therapy, declare borderline like a life sentence, and didn't even bother finding the precise physical cause for borderline. *(But if you ask me, borderline is just autism but with humans and not objects as the primary interest of the borderlines.)*
**Mental health professionals tend to invalidate.** How come schizophrenia is treated as a defect they cannot cure so they mitigate its consequences for a lifetime, and not seen as a superpower from which we can learn about things invisible to most? Life for real! The person literally sees or hears things others don't. How come scientists are not like "WOW! Let's check this out. Maybe reality is not as simple as it seems and there's more than meets the eye." They are like "No lol, defective model. It's just a brain fooling itself." As if a brain fooling itself has survived natural selection! The DSM recommends not encouraging the "delusions" of schizophrenics by not paying attention to their "delusional talk" and validating none of it.
**Diagnosis criteria are loosely linked to the cause or the definition of the condition.** Autism is defined as a unique brain structure. Yet, it is none of the criteria to get diagnosed. It is only in the DSM-5 that "unstable sense of self" was considered the main criterion for borderline when it is otherwise the main definition! What a diagnosis ~~medical~~ bullshit ethic! It's like they made the bet that no one will ever notice or question their expertise when they just put bullshit criteria together that have nothing to do with the condition per se.
**The more one is treated in psychiatry, the worse the condition gets.** Ever noticed in a psych ward that the most medicated patients are the most fucked up patients? Well, this is weird, because the medication is supposed to make you *less* fucked up. Through the years, the condition of the psychiatric patients gets worse and worse and they always blame the patients and never the doctors. It's as if the patients are to blame for being sick despite the heavy medication, and not the "doctors" to blame for actually making their patients worse off through poisoning.

All this leads me to know the DSM is not a mental health tool, it's a mental illness tool! It is the mental illness. It catalogues all of human behavior than tells the professional to do the opposite of what they should do to heal the person. Honestly, I personally have tried for years and years to follow their advice, and things were just getting worse. Once I was fed up, I decided to do the exact opposite, and in weeks I saw tremendous results. Really, they are just torturing people by giving them the exact opposite of what they need, keeping the demand for their service high as to increase their wages. They are a misery business.

*Try seeing it like this : the DSM doesn't describe illnesses, they describe different traits someone might have; so these are not conditions that can be cured and while you suffer and look for a cause, a professional will tell you what your problem is and you will spend the rest of your life fighting one part of your mind, when the problem is probably not you but society. It's like we all aknowledge that we will in a very imperfect world, yet, in mental health, they always try to find* ***the problem in you***\*. It's always YOU the problem for a mental health professional, and not the world that is to change. Ergo, it's a weapon for the status quo. Nothing may be wrong with you, but if you are suffering and go to a mental health professional, they will torture you by telling you something's wrong with you and have you fight you on the long term instead of trying to change the world.\*

Try diagnosing yourself, you'll see that you have many more "diagnoses" in mental health than what your professional pretends. Psychiatrists will focus on a few diagnoses because that is how they want to categorize you, and they select what type of torture you will have to face. DSM is one letter away from BDSM even if DSM be BDSM. Really, it's like they are having fun torturing people that they do wordplay on it. Like they are even spelling "therapists" exactly like "'the rapists' minus the space".

Location: MA

I don't know what to do here. Literally none of this had any basis in reality, medicine, or psychology. I did not meet even minimum standards for involuntary commitment. This happened after "mother" stole MY RX medication from ME... she had me dragged from my home, & infinitely MORE traumatized/ abused/ injured than I started.

I spent all of 2025 trying to find/set-up treatment for my prior 40+yrs of abuse, assaults, rape(s), etc. ***This happened at the very end of Sept 2025. I've been reporting & trying to get ANY HELP since then. Police will not respond (RE: the Shitshow, or the escalating home abuse... which has expanded from emotional, psychological, & financial to now physical.) This doesn't even BEGIN to cover the litany of rights/code violations, abuses, torture, falsified "records" (by institution, which I found out accidentally whilst still "incarcerated"), Misappropriation of funds, abduction, coercion, false imprisonment, & psychological damage created by the protective services... ALL FUNDED BY TAX MONEY!

I realize this sounds ridiculous, & "can't happen" bc we have "checks & balances" to prevent these things. I'd honestly started doubting myself until a single employee from the institution, an N.P., (there were NO DOCTORS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, PSYCHIATRISTS, or THERAPY in the institution), this N.P. freaked out telling me "This is fucking bullshit, you shouldn't be here at all, they never even signed your paperwork, I'd be more pissed, but you’re the 4th person I've met being held here illegally. YOU HAVE A LEGAL CASE, GO REPORT TO DMH RIGHT NOW!"

Every single facet of the system dropped their respective balls, & immediately started covering/ ignoring that ANYTHING happened! My city told me to "get past it, & hurry up"!

I need help. Everyone still stuck in those places need help! I hope this explains enough for now, I'm happy to go into more detail if there is ANY way to get legal help, & the story out. *** This is beyond humiliating & I cannot trust or be near people anymore. At this point, after >8 months of revictimization, I'll do what it takes to make this stop & save someone else. These monsters took away my only chance to get help for my past, & instead piled on 15 lifetimes of additional damage & trauma.

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