Apparently opinion is divided. For some, mental health professionals are entitled to behave as they choose on social media, it doesn’t matter if they cause harm to others, it is their spare time and there is no obligation to behave as a professional, let alone a decent human being.
I have a different view. I would like any mental health professional involved in my care to be a decent human being. If they think that being nasty, vile and vindictive is the way to be then I would not be interested in any opinion about my mental health.
Some take great pleasure in labelling those of us who have rejected the labels of psychiatric diagnoses. Those who do this simply like labels, they like to categorise people and they like to put them into boxes. Obviously those of us who campaign about the harms from prescribed drugs of dependence, including psych drugs, are anti-harm and pro-patient safety. However the usual labels given to us are done with an intent to cause harm e.g. anti-meds, anti-psychiatry etc. I say this because the labels are used in a disparaging manner which is totally contrary to our goals of improved patient safety and reduced harm. When mental health professionals choose to cause harm, they are not the type of people who should work with the vulnerable and distressed.
Psychiatric diagnostic labels and psychiatric dugs are often used as a means to silence us, it means we cannot express our painful emotions and cannot access people who are willing to listen to us and sit with us in our pain. Labels are okay for those who want to be labelled, who identify with said labels, but trying to impose them on others is yet another attempt to try to exert control over people who do not wish to be subservient to those who wish to control.
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