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The Most Important Thing I Learned in the 8th grade….

Real Psychiatry

I was a definite nerd back then and extremely interested in science especially biology. All I can remember about it today is frog dissections, the genetics of taste testing and tongue rolling, and the idea that race was a social construct that had nothing to do with biology. It was the only class that seemed to be interesting.

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Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

Mad in America

She did feel the diagnosis was a fit at first: She definitely wound up in many conflicts, she felt an emptiness inside, she did tend to feel abandoned and therefore preemptively reject others, but at the same time she felt a strong need for closeness, she did engage in frequent casual sex with men, she did engage in self-harmful practices.