Nothing could possibly stigmatise mental health more than inappropriate mental health diagnoses.
And here we are.
And hiding dodgy non-health positive paradigms, ‘treatment’ or as they now call is [re-]education, and using rumour and misinformation as disparagement inaccurately under the term. It’s weaponising of a term and of labels that are not intended, if they want to keep the inference they are ‘for good’, to cause ‘not good’ in the same way. And indeed there is not just no follow-up but fingers in ears and hands over eyes and disparage patients who dare to be seen in plain sight ‘not recovered’ by their nonsense.
Eeverything this lot do is to stigmatise and they certainly don’t care about mental health in the way most interpret that term. It’s about ‘behavioural’ and seeing certain individuals as ‘to be dealt with’ like the hysterical women into assylums or conversion ‘stuff’ ie the ‘dirty, dark ages’ people pretend was removed and extricated from the subject. But just these people have been allowed to sneak back through rebranding it and new names to hide it.
they don’t care about causing despair, desperation, lives not worth living type of mental health and they don’t indeed make those better instead of worse as their aim is their belief in personality change to re-educate and deal with. It’s not the proper psychology does it make people happier presumption people have from assuming it’s at least stayed in those principles if not moved forward from 30yrs ago. but a bunch who wanted a return
from that ‘enlightened’ definition and principles to the old days - indeed they are as a group focused on ‘bringing back a century to neurasthenia’ (a ‘dumping pot’ presumption before so many diseases and diagnostics were discovered and made accessible) so that they can presume reeducation is the best approach for those disabled by illness instead of medicine. That doesn't do much for the 'brand' of 'mental health' - either departments or the patients.
I’d also propose that ‘stigma creation’ is part of what they deliberately and actively do as part of the ‘punishment and aversion’ focus of their behavioural psychology they enforce whether someone is in treatment or not ie they belief ‘making being ill distasteful and bullied’ changes people from ‘acting like they are ill’. I think that’s their level - this bunch who do psychosomatics - of ‘thinking’ or ‘helping’. It’s just basic
so yes their ‘stigma’ nonsense is just pat darvo and because they are the personality types that will see themselves as the subject and object if everything and the victim. I’m not sure when they mean mental health it’s patients they are concerned about - we know how disdainful they are of the ones they insist in treating in cfs - but a stigma about what they do.
And there should be more than a stigma about what this bunch do. Psychosomatics used to be a niche outed and kept an eye on for it’s dangerous ideas by psychology. It’s just nastiness and the belief ‘women think themselves ill’ . it’s fake pretend it’s anything ‘real’ or more than that by calling itself a subject used to be laughed at.
and I think for those who care about not damaging mental health if people that’s where it should be. Bad and harmful loopy stuff should be being called out and made known by society as ‘far out’ in order that those attacked by it have others bring proper bystanders and not ignoring the harm or wrongness.
It’s just like bullies who want to say someone is unkind for stating they bullied someone when they did indeed just bully someone. And try and pretend to everyone that is 'the norm' that saying
anything 'bad' about 'anyone' makes you bad, which is nonsense given responsibilities of bystanders and calling out bad behaviours when you are the third party witnessing an incident.
They are wrong that person is doing good and being good by stating and calling out bad actors and bad behaviour. Being ‘polite’ about harmful things isn’t ‘politeness’ . Calling out harmful treatment done by a weird ideology that has no place under the ‘help’ assumption of ‘mental health’ is doing the right thing in stigmatising bad actors delivering re-education that causes psychological and physical harm. Calling out actors who disparage patients with misinformation as harming mental health and health is the right thing to do and you’d hope with anyone with s mental health issue people would call out misinformation and any bad actors if inappropriate paradigms too.
