there is a lot to like about this video but it also "perpetuates toxic lies" like you're accusing others of. While it's true that people are over-diagnosed and over-medicated, medication for ill mental health can save lives. It doesn't always stop you being you but can *enable* you to be you. Most medication doesn't stop you feeling emotions, this myth is dangerous because people may be suffering but are scared of trying medication, obviously we should be critical of medicine but should base judgments on our own situations not vague stories (without evidence) about side effects. It's irresponsible to present these things that some people experience as if they're facts for all, just like pharmaceutical companies tend to tell us that pills are the answer, saying unilaterally that diagnosis and medication is NOT helpful is also damaging. An approach to supporting people can't avoid labels all-together as these are helpful for us to find support from people like us, see what treatments work for different types of trauma etc. Diagnosis is also necessary for some people to get legal support e.g. to get/ keep employment or housing. Being traumatised isn't a protected characteristic but having a recognised "condition" can mean that it's illegal to discriminate against you and therefore offer more protection.
Re perpetuating toxic lies - to me it does no such thing, but well done for pushing the narrative of the oppressors ie Big Pharma/Psychiatry. Nobody is denying that some people benefit from psychiatric drugs and other treatments but I would argue that those numbers pale into insignificance when set alongside those who have been robbed of their essence and vitality. This video is to those millions in my opinion.
@@colincarson3537 at no point do I push the narrative of the oppressors. Your opinion of the difference in numbers of those affected both ways is just an opinion, as we don't have reliable statistics but it's unlikely to be in the millions. The video and commenters have denied that medication and diagnosis can be life saving to some people which is why I commented. Even if it's the minority of people who benefit it's still inappropriate to say unilaterally that pharma and diagnosis is bad. I may well have died by suicide without conventional medical support and medication. I wish that weren't the case, I wish I didn't make pharmaceutical companies rich off my illness but staying alive is more important. My experience has been overwhelmingly of people telling me not to take medication rather than encouraging it and many occasions, like in this video, has used misinformation to do so. As mentioned; it's good to critique diagnosis & medication but it's not useful, factually-based, or empathetic to state that they should be got rid of entirely
@@colincarson3537 The important thing is we need to start looking at What has happened to people in order to heal people’s traumas need to be acknowledged and validated. Diagnosing trauma victims with illness that are interpreted at genetic disorders or personality disorders is where we are getting it wrong, we need to stop and hear the individual in distress not the man in the white privileged man in his white coat who is pathologizing trauma responses in victims of trauma, oppression, racial discrimination and sexual abuse etc. Black men in the UK are 7 times more likely to be diagnosed with psychosis than white men in the UK, many will be diagnosed with schizophrenia as a result. So they are only ever seen as being sick because of schizophrenia which further hides and protects an oppressive system or a racist system and blames all distress on an illness, which is seen as biological and not on the victim’s trauma and injustice...
my experience is that people in mental health centres discuss what there diagnosis and what drugs they are on more than anything else. Very few say drugs are totally bad, most people say go to the Doctor if someone they know is distressed. Most Doctors will push the drugs. Anything countering this is worth promoting while keeping an open mind. I have no evidence apart from anecdote that drugs and diagnosis keep people alive. Anecdote is worth considering but is weak evidence in assessing medical treatments. Having a diagnosis may provide protection, I would like to have evidence, and in this case some anecdotes to back this up. It can also provide stigma and make it less likely that medical conditions are taken seriously. What is best is to explain the benefits and downsides of both positions and allow the person to make there own decisions.
I find the tone of this video as dominating and dictatorial as medical model. Sorry but I think you need to find another voice. You may be a poet Jo but some of these rhyming words are extremely incongruous with the images which make me want to vomit- extremely emotive. Good luck.
This is brilliant. I’ll be sharing with my counselling colleagues
Fantastic! Thanks so much for producing and sharing this, Jo. It's brilliant!
I agree Don!
NICE! Great work!
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE...
Brilliant! (The Brits have great word for this.)
oxygen, freedom, validation.
there is a lot to like about this video but it also "perpetuates toxic lies" like you're accusing others of. While it's true that people are over-diagnosed and over-medicated, medication for ill mental health can save lives. It doesn't always stop you being you but can *enable* you to be you. Most medication doesn't stop you feeling emotions, this myth is dangerous because people may be suffering but are scared of trying medication, obviously we should be critical of medicine but should base judgments on our own situations not vague stories (without evidence) about side effects. It's irresponsible to present these things that some people experience as if they're facts for all, just like pharmaceutical companies tend to tell us that pills are the answer, saying unilaterally that diagnosis and medication is NOT helpful is also damaging. An approach to supporting people can't avoid labels all-together as these are helpful for us to find support from people like us, see what treatments work for different types of trauma etc. Diagnosis is also necessary for some people to get legal support e.g. to get/ keep employment or housing. Being traumatised isn't a protected characteristic but having a recognised "condition" can mean that it's illegal to discriminate against you and therefore offer more protection.
Re perpetuating toxic lies - to me it does no such thing, but well done for pushing the narrative of the oppressors ie Big Pharma/Psychiatry. Nobody is denying that some people benefit from psychiatric drugs and other treatments but I would argue that those numbers pale into insignificance when set alongside those who have been robbed of their essence and vitality. This video is to those millions in my opinion.
@@colincarson3537 at no point do I push the narrative of the oppressors. Your opinion of the difference in numbers of those affected both ways is just an opinion, as we don't have reliable statistics but it's unlikely to be in the millions. The video and commenters have denied that medication and diagnosis can be life saving to some people which is why I commented. Even if it's the minority of people who benefit it's still inappropriate to say unilaterally that pharma and diagnosis is bad. I may well have died by suicide without conventional medical support and medication. I wish that weren't the case, I wish I didn't make pharmaceutical companies rich off my illness but staying alive is more important. My experience has been overwhelmingly of people telling me not to take medication rather than encouraging it and many occasions, like in this video, has used misinformation to do so. As mentioned; it's good to critique diagnosis & medication but it's not useful, factually-based, or empathetic to state that they should be got rid of entirely
@@colincarson3537 The important thing is we need to start looking at What has happened to people in order to heal people’s traumas need to be acknowledged and validated. Diagnosing trauma victims with illness that are interpreted at genetic disorders or personality disorders is where we are getting it wrong, we need to stop and hear the individual in distress not the man in the white privileged man in his white coat who is pathologizing trauma responses in victims of trauma, oppression, racial discrimination and sexual abuse etc.
Black men in the UK are 7 times more likely to be diagnosed with psychosis than white men in the UK, many will be diagnosed with schizophrenia as a result.
So they are only ever seen as being sick because of schizophrenia which further hides and protects an oppressive system or a racist system and blames all distress on an illness, which is seen as biological and not on the victim’s trauma and injustice...
my experience is that people in mental health centres discuss what there diagnosis and what drugs they are on more than anything else. Very few say drugs are totally bad, most people say go to the Doctor if someone they know is distressed. Most Doctors will push the drugs. Anything countering this is worth promoting while keeping an open mind.
I have no evidence apart from anecdote that drugs and diagnosis keep people alive. Anecdote is worth considering but is weak evidence in assessing medical treatments.
Having a diagnosis may provide protection, I would like to have evidence, and in this case some anecdotes to back this up. It can also provide stigma and make it less likely that medical conditions are taken seriously.
What is best is to explain the benefits and downsides of both positions and allow the person to make there own decisions.
I find the tone of this video as dominating and dictatorial as medical model. Sorry but I think you need to find another voice. You may be a poet Jo but some of these rhyming words are extremely incongruous with the images which make me want to vomit- extremely emotive. Good luck.