Drop the Disorder!: Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis

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Anyone who wants to deal with the epidemic of distress and despair in our society should engage deeply with Jo Watson's work and this massively important book.

And “A further barrier to language change may derive from the privileges granted to those who have been given a psychiatric diagnosis. That has been essential to my process of tapering down and getting far away from psychiatric drugs so that I can begin the process of reclaiming the pieces of my life. One of the shared ambitions of the administrator group is that we can ultimately develop this resource into a much-needed “Mad in the UK” site. I highly recommend it to anyone questioning their psychiatric diagnosis or the psychiatric medications they've been prescribed.I figured that getting people together to initiate a conversation about psychiatric diagnosis would be a pretty good start. We bring together people who want to see a change in how we understand and respond to emotional distress.

I also wonder whether this philosophy finds people still suffering to be failures of the anti-psych world. Jacqui Dillon is an activist, author, and speaker, and has lectured and published worldwide on trauma, abuse, hearing voices, psychosis, dissociation, and healing.These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. Others come with crippling anxiety and a parallel belief that it is something that is part of them, that their brain is dysfunctional and they have no control over it. However I think there are infinitely better ways of responding to distress and suffering than assigning a label that has been created around a table! I am serious about my Funding Request, and hopefully making a contribution to UK Mental Health Recovery. And of course, these structures inevitably start to become dogmatic and therefore leave very little room for nuance.