Richardtherectangle - BeansInASock

So i’ve been seeing these sort of things on tumblr and I decided I’d do one with my parents. Haha

P.s. my dad thinks he’s tumblr famous because of this post. (x)

sometimes i see a post from like 2012 tumblr on my dash, stripped of all the wild reblogs and im sad

its like seeing a Greek statue that had all its paint stripped off to make it look dignified and appeal to the sensibilities of people it wasn’t made for, instead of the technicolor nightmare that made it loved initially. like that, we have lost the sense of wild eyed derangement that made tumblr so fun. Occasionally it comes back in a haze of terrible tv shows and memes, though not for long.

But i remember, Color of the Sky post. I remember Constablefrozen. I remember when users actually made money off their blogs and the massive fallout of the big ones getting banned leading people to realize someone on staff thought this trash was worth money for a reason. I remember tumblr prom. The Lizard election. The one time Staff gave us all a lil horse friend for april fools and it was the 1 good thing they’d ever given us.

I remember when we called it nightblogging, and blamed australians!

This isn’t me saying tumblr’s bad now, i’m just saying we’ve mellowed after the victory of costing a company millions of dollars.

I think adding stars makes everything better

How did you become anti-psychiatry? Why should more people become anti-psychiatry?

am i anti-psychiatry lol? i’m a clinical social worker in the making! maybe my aversion to labels applies here too :)

but in seriousness, the more i learned about the colonizing, white supremacist, misogynistic history of psychiatry, and the more experience i had within it, AND the more i listened to people more marginalized than i about their experiences of institutional psychiatry, the less able i was to hold the ahistorical fantasy view of psychiatry that the field itself and much of recovery and mental health ~awareness~ culture peddle.

psychiatry is embedded, contingent, located squarely in an ignominious history–it’s not a hard science (is hard science even hard science some of my physicist followers are thinking). we are truly making this shit up, even as it relates to research on neurobiological processes, which has lately lent an air of legitimacy to the field. psychiatry privatizes the systemic, and gives the impression that there can only be one framework thru which to understand various emotional and cognitive states and their associated behaviors. it makes state agents the “experts,” gives them the power to label and incarcerate, and construes people who actually have the target experiences as deficient populations to be controlled, rather than the experts on and the rightful interpreters of their own experiences. psychiatry has historically been about correcting deviance from norms, which should set off our foucauldian alarm bells. who decides what is normal? to what purpose?

but i am all for people developing skill to support others and themselves in improving their quality of life, and opening up a fuller, kinder existence! for me, therapy will be a practice of solidarity, of witnessing. i’m sick, you’re sick, the world is sick! there are many ways of knowing thru which to understand this, and many possible personal and political paths to greater freedom and connection. they are for us to determine for ourselves and our communities, not for institutions to dictate.