When Psychiatry Forgets You’re a Person
What if your diagnosis was just a survival response?
There’s no blood test for schizophrenia,
No brain scan for bipolar,
No chemical marker for ‘mental illness’.
Diagnosis is based on behavior and interpretation, perception, not biology.
Medication is prescribed often as if it corrects a chemical imbalance, but no one has ever proven such an imbalance exists.
That doesn’t mean medication has no place, and I’m not against it, sometimes it’s stabilising, sometimes it’s essential.
But they should be honest:
This is a took, not a cure.
This is a support, not a solution, and it’s temporary – not a life sentence.
The real issue isn’t just the drugs, It’s the idea they carry – that you are broken, that your symptoms are who you are, that the label is your identity.
When a client believes they are a diagnosis, and no one corrects it – that’s not care. ’ .
Most of what gets labeled mental illness is nervous system overwhelm, trauma, unmet needs, and spiritual disconnection.
Psychiatry treats symptoms, not causes, and when we ignore perception, story, and environment – we compound suffering.
Also –
– Overworked practitioners
– Lack of explanation around meds
– Zero psychoeducation
– And no conversation about the body
And then we call it treatment.
Here’s what I see,
Every person has the potential for well-being…..
not as a goal. As a fact, and If you don’t know that in yourself, as a practitioner – you won’t and can’t see it in anyone else.
You don’t need to be anti-psychiatry to see the harm. You just need to be honest.
You’re not your diagnosis,
You’re someone who was never fully heard..
I was first diagnosed with a mental illness and medicated at 10 years old, then spent years in the system, with an endless list of diagnoses, sectioned, psychotic, medicated, broken. No one ever saw me, yet I found my way, Now I’m free and I show others the way ❤️ through a model of well-being, called The Infinite Recovery Project.
Has anyone ever pointed out the intelligence of all your struggles?