20 percent of children in the US are labeled with a psychiatric disorder.

Are they really all disabled or are they just humans having feelings in toxic family cultures and schools?

No - the psychiatric label forced onto the child is a way to deny painful issues and the medication is a way to hold the status quo in place.

When children are psycho-pathologized in families, it very often comes from the conditioned reflexes of parents who are shame and fear driven.

It’s not like they stepped back, mindfully reflected on what’s happening and determined this was the best explanation.

At some point you might realize the psychiatric diagnosis was their explanation.

Not yours.

You don't have to keep using it if you don’t want to.

If psychological healing involves a return to first-person subjective experience and clinical mental health is inherently about third-person objectification, then wouldn't it be a barrier to healing for many?

The conventional school system and the mental health field that supports it is like installing a puppet government in kids’ minds.

The conventional school system and the mental health field that supports it is like installing a puppet government in kids’ minds.

Many mental health professionals who work with kids are measuring their success less by your genuine well-being and more by the degree to which they’ve consolidated the mental health field’s power over you. #mentalhealth #education

The professional is hired to fix behaviors and attitudes that the third party finds inconvenient. The child can’t say no.

If a child is restless, defiant, or unhappy in a setting they find oppressive, they get coerced or manipulated into altering this and are gaslit about what they’re experiencing.

The relationship between a mental health professional and child is, in many cases, an abusive relationship, at its core.

In almost all cases, it’s initiated by a third party (parent, school) not by the child.

The fastest growing demographic for antidepressant prescriptions:

Children under 12.

The clinical trials that got these drugs approved did not include children under 12.

They are the trial.

The young population spends 12 years being constantly evaluated, ranked, sorted, and graded in age-segregated classrooms under the threat of clinical harassment and punishment.

This is not a safe way to start your life or build a healthy, meaningful, productive existence.

The child who's sensitive enough to see through the lies of the family system becomes the "problem".

Not because they're wrong.

Because they're right.

The same behaviors that get a kid psychiatrically labeled in a public school get called "leadership potential" in an elite, private one.

The diagnosis isn't about the child, in many cases.

It’s absolutely crazy the way therapy for kids has proliferated without much resistance.

A child can’t say NO to an adult who is probing their mind.

Between psychiatric medication, factory-model schooling, Social Emotional Learning, behavior management software, and the specter of clinical harassment, we’re creating The Manufactured Child.

Say goodbye to authenticity, humanism, and the notion of sovereign personal destiny.

"Can't sit still" became a disorder when schools needed kids to sit still for 8 plus hours.

It’s social control cosplaying as medicine.

ADHD medications are chemically similar to Crystal Meth.

We give them to 6-year-olds.

Not for disease.
For classroom management.

Child psychiatry is legalized child abuse.

We chemically lobotomize kids for being energetic.

This is the largest mass drugging in history.

And we call it healthcare.

Trying to make clinical psychology more "holistic" is a contradiction in terms. You may be exploring more areas of a person's life, but you're bringing it under a clinical gaze. That's more of your life being brought under technocratic authority and more paperwork being created about you.

Because the mental health field has negligible scientific grounding, you get a situation where the various abuses people experience, including the harm from mental healthcare itself, gets officially narrated as part of a defect in the individual.

This makes understanding and navigating it confusing, difficult, uncertain, and potentially dangerous. These are not simply “trained professionals”. Don’t be naive.

Despite what people say, paychotherapy is not just like other professions. Because it deals with things like meaning, thoughts, feelings and relationships, it has extremely unique and strange properties.

Beneath the procedural warmth, there's a real anger at kids for suffering. We'd much rather them be totally ok with how they're being treated in our broken schools and families.

Probably 90%+ of our idea of childhood wellbeing is defined as adaptation to social environments that are bad for you.

The widespread misuse of the neuroscience of children really is akin to scientific racism. It’s like, no your problem isn’t an authoritarian, psychologically abusive environment, it’s due to an inherent defect in your brain.

One of the scariest things about the mental health field is that harm is very often invisible to the system. It gets reclassified as individual pathology, not counted as harm.

We forget that, much of the time, the phenomenon of kids labeled and treated for “mental illness” is another persecution story. Kids that are truth tellers in their families or schools being scapegoated for surfacing problems that the adults don’t wish to address.

Psychotherapy can very easily slip into being a coercive controlling relationship. And when kids are involved, it might be nearly inevitable.

Sometimes, psychotherapy is first and foremost an exercise of power.