If you’ve had any experience with the mental health industry you know it’s questionable at best with this for profit model and state run facilities in Amerikkka.

I was thrown into the industry via the psych med/psych ward/intensive outpatient merry go round as a preteen.

In my post “Teenage Lab Rats” I went over the medication flaws of the system but a big one that’s come up recently is the improper diagnosing of everyone- not just kids and teens.

Some of these labels they slap on patients come with some HEAVY connotations. To tell a teenage girl or a newly sober young adult she has an incurable personality disorder that meds can’t fix is fucked up, especially when it’s not true in the slightest.

I was being diagnosed with everything in the DSM4 and being shuffled thru meds like people change relationships now- it was far too many labels, meds and far too many side effects. You can’t accurately diagnose children under 18 and you certainly can’t diagnose drug addicts in active addiction or while going thru withdrawal in a 7 day hospital setting, but it’s done daily in Amerikkka and the insurance companies/big pharma are making a fortune off it.

I’m lucky I got off the psych meds, but my concern is for the future generations not to end up like many of the millennials (to clarify I’m not saying that these meds don’t work, but there’s many people who were given them in an inappropriate manner that truly didn’t need them- this post does NOT apply to those who actually have legitimate mental illness that needs medical care before anyone assumes I’m promoting going rouge off your meds- I AM NOT).

I was given meds but not appropriate therapy, forced into therapy programs that were absolutely abusive, and in the end it’s definitely made more of an impact than I ever actually have given acknowledgement to.

If you’re walking around labeling yourself with a diagnosis that came from a 3-5 day psych hold or from drug treatment facilities, I urge you to get back to therapy and double check any of that is accurate. When DBT didn’t really help me in the way they said it was the cure for what I supposedly had I should have questioned it more but I was so institutionalized I just accepted these labels and assumed the ones with the PHDs wouldn’t be wrong (foolish of me, though I’ll remind readers I never claimed to be on the intelligent side).

These spin dry diagnosis, medicate, ship out and return methods served me ZERO actual help. The only forms of therapy that have ever been helpful for me were private based that were not in a hospital or treatment setting. Now with the mental health crisis, insurance crisis, lack of beds, lack of properly taken care of staff the industry is one that needs a full reset back to patients over profits…..

What’s that oath they chant? “Do no harm”? The system now is harmful and could use some attention; but what do I know🙃