u/FullOfShame93

A lot of people have had their first forced hospitalization after a hypomanic or manic episode following the initiation of SSRI therapy. It can't be a coincidence. It usually happens when a person is already in a state of emotional fragility. It happens to a lot of young patients.

Do you have any personal experience with this?

From my personal experience, it seems very common. And personally, I believe that psychiatrists who have a lot of experience with patients are aware of it but don't do anything because it's in their interest to have more "mentally ill" patients to treat.

I came across an article by Christina Buttons in which, after years of accepting the autistic label, she now denies it and claims it was a mistake. She was also one of the first to denounce the phenomenon of detransition, primarily confused adolescents but also adults whose "gender dysphoria" was transitory and the result of a lack of awareness of their real problems, leading them to identify wanting to be the opposite sex as the solution. Since this latter topic is controversial and a particularly sensitive one for the American right, she operates in alt-right, anti-woke, and MAGA circles, even if not strictly partisan.

Other authors and popular internet figures in the anti-psychiatry field, such as Laura Delano and Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring, also participated in interviews with Tucker Carlson.

The United Kingdom has banned the use of puberty-blocking drugs; the phenomenon of detransition had already been known in the scientific community for some time, particularly in Sweden, even before it became known to the public.

The concept of "gender dysphoria," another unscientific concept conceived by psychiatry to address a real social problem with different causes for different people, is being questioned.

In fact, the specific problem is real: the existence of effeminate males, masculine females, or in any case people who do not comply with social expectations, often stereotypes, regarding how a man or woman should behave.

This is one of the causes that leads a person to want to be the opposite sex, and this can be legitimate regardless of the unnecessary medicalization of the social issue.

There are other, lesser-known, or perhaps more controversial, causes with less legitimacy when a person wishes to assume a gender role different from their biological sex in society. These include sexual fetishism, trauma due to abuse, adolescent confusion, homophobia and the resulting social pressure (in countries like Iran, Thailand, or Brazil, where there is or was a macho culture, or religious oppression, but at the same time a more tolerant attitude toward the possibility of sex change than toward relationships between men or the existence of effeminate men).

Autism has now lost its original definition, which had much more scientific validity than today's. With the creation of the autism spectrum, it has also absorbed more controversial diagnoses like Asperger's syndrome. It has become a catch-all term for any type of problem that can arise in the socio-emotional development of a child or adolescent.

Diagnoses are now out of control, there are too many, and by making the interpretation of the diagnosis too flexible, we have reached a point where we will have to take a step back.

Autism with the false theory linking it to vaccines (now Trump has also brought out the Tylenol bullshit) had already made inroads with some right-wing voters prone to anti-scientific, anti-medical, and conspiracy rhetoric.

The left, or rather, today's liberal left, with the exception of a very few current politicians like Bernie Sanders, has completely lost interest in pursuing the well-being, cooperation, and social and economic equality of citizens as the primary goal of its political activity. Instead, it too has become subservient to the interests of lobbyists, including those in the medical and pharmaceutical sectors. Even the liberal left has its own group of lobbyists and its blind identitarianism that is convenient only for careerist politicians who can thus count on a loyal electorate based on empty promises.

Anti-psychiatry and the issues it raises must be addressed through politics, but they cannot be reduced to political tribalism. These are issues that concern the well-being of all citizens and must be addressed in a non-ideological manner, with no bias from any side. They must be seen as in everyone's interest, the common good.

ANTI-PSYCHIATRY MUST NOT BECOME ANOTHER ISSUE THAT POLITICIANS EXPLOIT TO GAIN POPULAR CONSENSUS AND THEN PURSUE OTHER GOALS.