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Given the mental illness discourse today I'm here to tell you that your disorder is real, it's okay to take meds, and please ignore ableist garbage people who minimize your symptoms by blaming them entirely on our (admittedly messed up) economic system.
If we're going to talk about capitalism's impact on mental health there are so many better places to start than "mental illness isn't real capitalism just broke your brain"
Like, so many people don't have access to mental health care, and that's something we can work to fix!
Lots of us pay wild amounts of money each month for the meds we need to function. Let's change that.
Lots of us pay wild amounts of money each month for the meds we need to function. Let's change that.
But let's not minimize the lived experience of disabled people by saying that taking meds to live is some kind of unnessecary act that we were hoodwinked into by "the system"
This is just anti-science, anti-psychiatry trash coated with socialist paint.
And while the offending tweet today was about ADHD, we've seen this before targeting people with every sort of mental illness.
And while the offending tweet today was about ADHD, we've seen this before targeting people with every sort of mental illness.
To me, this highlights areas where the social model of disability falls a little flat.
If we were suddenly transported to some socialist utopia, I'd still have chronic pain. I'd still have OCD that can ruin even enjoyable endeavors.
There has to be more nuance in this convo.
If we were suddenly transported to some socialist utopia, I'd still have chronic pain. I'd still have OCD that can ruin even enjoyable endeavors.
There has to be more nuance in this convo.
I think the social model is really critical to understanding disability and how we exist in society as disabled people.
But some people grab onto that theory & warp it to say "disability is *only* disabling because of society" and I think that's way too simplistic.
But some people grab onto that theory & warp it to say "disability is *only* disabling because of society" and I think that's way too simplistic.
