We've all heard about how there's a mental health crisis and while I do believe this is true, I believe the root is that psychiatry manufactures a lot of mental illness and society's treatment of perceived mental illness and disorders is constructed around what psychiatry has manufactured. I'm not saying the science of psychiatry itself is a bad thing which we should disregard but that the current implementation of it is an insidious cancer on society that's in reality worsening people's mental health.
Autistic Ramblings And Labels
A big part of why there seems to be an epidemic of mentally ill people or people with "disorders" is largely due to a way psychiatry has found to discriminate against behaviors collectives want to weed out. This is especially prevalent in schooling with how kids are diagnosed with these "disorders" which are in reality personality types that would otherwise be of no issue to them or others had they not been socially stigmatized. This is especially true in neurodivergent "disorders" such as autism. These "disorders" have no actual effect on the mental health of its haver by themselves but because the neurology of the people with these "disorders" doesn't mesh well with societal expectations and conflicts with desired behavior, we've put a label to people with these alternate personality types and assigned them as "mental disorders". I'm fully aware that there could be genuine mental ailments caused by these but to what degree is it the "disorders" themselves versus social stigmatization from so many aspects of life? Obviously someone with one or more of these is gonna develop actual problems when they're discriminated against their entire life for having a personality deemed a defect.
I'm not very familiar with nuerodivergence outside of autism so I can't speak for other labels assigned to 'defective' people but I am an autist who's life has been fucked with so much due to my autism for not submitting and conforming to various institutions. My autism itself causes me no duress, stress, discomfort, whatever by itself. No, where all my problems and all the psychological suffering has come from is not that I'm some stupid sperg suffering from the existence of my mind's state but instead the entirety has been caused by the social aspect being that others have discriminated against and harmed me for my non-standard and non-expected behavior.
People often conflate suffering caused by society's hatred for them with their "disorder" being the root of the suffering which is why you so often see people such as autists with an internalised hatred, calling autism or whatever other neurodivergent personality label a disability even though the only disabling part about it is the social aspect which is completely external. I'm fully aware autism is a very highly variable state of being that could cause actual disabilities but autism itself is not a disability despite what those who've succumbed to society's hatred for them, internalising it themselves, say. This is a major problem with psychiatry; it puts an emphasis on labeling, using those labels to deem someone defective and in need of work to either rid them of their defect or lessen the socially unwanted symptoms which seeps into people's perception of these neurological states as truly being defects. I also believe this may be why these "disorders" never really had concepts for them prior to the 1900s, because we simply didn't need them and these kinds of people weren't a hindrance on the societal norms at the time. But because they are a hindrance to normativities, people spout shit about how "autism is a pandemic" because society is becoming more and more hypersocial and collectivist, wanting to weed out anyone who can't abide by its expectations. This is a symptom of what I call societal schizophrenia which I discuss in Our Schizophrenic Society.
Take Your Normal Pills
Did you take your normal pills today? Well, you better have. Remember, it's you that's the problem, not the fact that your life sucks, everyone hates you, and you're in no position to better your life.
This is the problem with psychiatric medication. It creates the perception that people's mental ailments are inherent traits of theirs that must be managed with medication as opposed to being caused by external factors in which the mental ailments could be fixed by getting rid of the negative external factors. But if people started dropping out of school, quitting their shitty job, and living freely, that would disrupt things so instead we drug everyone up so they can cope with their shitty lives. And now we're at a point where everyone and their dog's on these drugs but mental illness continues to get worse as people's lives get worse. Work hours continue to rise, everything's getting more expensive disproportional to pay increases, suicide rates are at the highest they've been since the Great Depression, friendly and romantic relationships are taking a nosedive but it's medicine that'll help you be happy!
Psychiatric institutions try their damnedest to get you hooked on these drugs too which is why everyone's on them. If you go to therapy, they'll ask you about taking drugs; if you see a psychiatrist for genuine psychiatric needs, they'll ask you about taking drugs; if you're admitted to a mental hospital, they'll try to get you on drugs; in places where advertising drugs is legal, you get a constant stream of propaganda about how you should take these drugs. And people succumb to it and regurgitate the propaganda about these drugs to others and how they need to be on these drugs. I myself have been told I needed to be put on drugs by so many people for various and even opposite reasons. One person will think my lack of emotion is depression and try to propagandise me to take the drugs; another will tell me to get on drugs because they think I'm deranged for explaining the evils of whatever institution, failing to understand that being jaded isn't a mental illness. But let's be real, give it 50 years and jaded personality disorder will be a thing. The propaganda is so infused into society that you show any negative emotion or lack of emotion and you have people clamoring to get you diagnosed with something so you can be prescribed this crap.
Abuse Centers (Mental Hospitals)
There are a lot of misconceptions about mental hospitals and how "helpful" they are. Mental hospital do not exist to treat you. Instead they're more of just holding cells so you can maybe calm down and stop wanting to make a scarlet Pollock of the walls. You cannot treat mental ailments in a three to ten day stay. In fact, they don't even try to treat you at all! Whether you're admitted voluntarily or more likely, through force or coercion, there's only really two things they do in terms of "treatment". One is you'll see a doctor or a panel of doctors and they will try their damnedest to convince you to get on medicine and the rest of your stay there, they'll harass you daily about taking the drugs if you refuse. Other than that, what mental hospitals do in terms of your "treatment" is they cycle through various group activities each day and everyone has to do the crap regardless of whether it applies to them. So if you're in for anxiety, you still gotta do the drug abuse crap, the eating disorder crap, the self-harm crap, and in fact, depending on how long you stay, you may never even do anything relating to why you're there at all. Most people are ignorant as to what psychiatric hospitals do; there is no actual treatment going on in them.
Furthermore, the majority of staff you'll be around are neither doctors nor nurses. The doctors only interview you and try to get you hooked on drugs and the nurses only take vitals, give medicine, and determine whether you should be let free or imprisoned longer. The people that are actually working with patients are just regular schmucks chasing after a paycheck. They're only trained to do the irrelevant group activities and handle conflict; they have no actual psychiatric qualifications.
This explains why mental hospitals are ineffective but why do I say they're abuse centers? Well, turns out, there are tons of lawsuits against these shitholes, especially the pediatric ones. Seems these places can't stop abusing children. Here's just a few examples:
- Massive case involving child abuse in multiple psychiatric facilities in Illinois, USA
- News articles and court documents pertaining abuse at a Washington DC, USA facility owned by the same parent company
- Lawsuit involving state-run facilities in New Jersey, USA
- Tax-funded child abuse
These were just the latest I've found but the rabbit hole goes so much deeper; you can find plenty more lawsuits regarding child abuse through basic research and you can find countless previous lawsuits mentioned in these examples. So if you're looking to abuse kids, you know where to send your next job application. Let's not also forget to mention behavioral health schools which are essentially these child-abusing shitholes just in school form and often have children living at them. I'm genuinely surprised these abuse centers haven't been widely exposed for what they are. I've seen many video essays about the troubled teen industry in my time which is a separate thing but I have yet to see a single person expose how pediatric psychiatry is riddled with child abuse. So if you're a video essayist, here's a topic to look into.
One of the most ignorant and utterly stupid things I come across often is people saying how getting rid of insane asylums was a mistake and how we should bring them back. Insane asylums would be publicly funded and with that comes the management ability of something publicly funded which is abysmal even in the private, for-profit sector as already discussed. But disregarding that, what people who tout this really want is for people they deem undesirable to be forced out of society and away from everyone else as a sort of soft eugenics. These are the kind of people that create suffering from their discrimination which leads to genuine mental illness.
Being in a mental hospital may also revoke certain rights such as in the US where your second amendment right could pretty much be considered null if you were ever in a mental hospital. And since laws exist that easily allow people to be involuntarily committed to a mental hospital, the government can just deem people insane and now you have an excuse to disarm them. Ironic how there's regulation trying to limit civilians' ownership of guns on the basis of mental health all the while the people deemed capable of wielding them such as police and military have absurdly high rates of mental illness according to governments' own reports. I'm also sure health and life insurance companies love that they can use your psychiatric history to raise your rates.
Written 2026-1-11 Published 2026-2-1