Drop the Disorder!: Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis

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The support and feedback that we've received over the last 8 years is evidence that many people have had enough of the medical model paradigm and that it's time for change.

Would they have thought I was healthy if I constantly defied authority, had no conscience, and was promiscuous? Adie has over 15 years of experience working within areas of mental health and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation services. I made my Recovery in (detail removed) in 1984 as a result of (carefully) coming off strong medication with the help of Psychotherapy.These too are ways that the survivors of abuse decide not to face their own feelings, and instead to abuse other survivors. And the more I read the more curious I became about the resistance to change and the difficulties that are faced when trying to bring about change. I didn’t have an answer for this patient because, like them, I was doing what the system told me to do.

but also understand, with great clarity, why it is imperative that psychiatry s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) be dumped, as quickly as possible, into the waste bin.One of the shared ambitions of the administrator group is that we can ultimately develop this resource into a much-needed “Mad in the UK” site. I am serious about my Funding Request, and hopefully making a contribution to UK Mental Health Recovery. Despite the progressive image conveyed by British critics of psychiatry (both professionals and survivors), the biomedical discourse in the UK is still deeply embedded in public consciousness and actively promoted in anti-stigma campaigns and media reporting. So therefore, in many ways, this book started to become somewhat revolutionary for me the more I read. An excellent collection and combination of like minded reputable authors challenging the way that Medical Health is creating labels and failing to meet the needs of those who it should be serving.

She has personal and professional experience, awareness and skills in working with trauma and abuse, dissociation, ‘psychosis’, hearing voices, healing and recovery. But equally, from a more political or sociological position I’ve often found when systemic change is mentioned, I become instinctively interested in the movements that challenge or seek to empower what might be described as “disadvantaged groups”.In my opinion, therapy should be a place where concerns central to antipsychiatry (if one is has issues with psychotropics) should be safely presented, articulated, and processed. This conversation led to the creation of a daylong event on October 15 in Birmingham, England with Dr Lucy Johnstone, clinical psychologist, MIA blogger and author of A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis. However, many, many people never hear or find an alternative to the model that your brain is broken and you need to take drugs indefinitely. And this is how the book describes those at the mercy of the system, diagnosed, labelled, and condemned to a process that disadvantages their recovery, and ultimately their right to be a person. That has been essential to my process of tapering down and getting far away from psychiatric drugs so that I can begin the process of reclaiming the pieces of my life.