chatters, please take your meds. this comment was from an unrelated subreddit on an unrelated post. i feel bad for these people because obviously they’re going through a lot, but i had to share this with y’all because of just how nuts it is
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Yeah, schizophrenia meds will help that situation
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*And* psychotherapy or counseling. You can't just throw pills and injections at this. That's a narrative spun by the pharmaceutical and insurance industries as a part of neoliberalism (you can take pills for all of your suffering, no need to look at systemic issues). Chances are this person's life is a mess, experiencing the "downward slide" that happens with schizophrenics. 

Elyn Saks and James davies have some great work on this topic.

Edit: sorry for the diatribe, as a psych and social work student I spend so much time dealing with this. If you're interested in this topic, check out r/PsychotherapyLeftists, particularly their reading list. So many leftists have issues with big business and capitalism until it comes to the mental health industry, then you have to be careful, because many seem to think criticizing the  over-use of meds and the medicicalization and pathologization of the human experience as somehow a denial of mental illness
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What do u think of Freddie Deboer’s assertion that the left is actually very anti-psychiatry

https://open.substack.com/pub/freddiedeboer/p/the-nyt-has-a-100-best-books-list?r=p5g02&amp;utm_medium=ios
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