We know psych meds harm people
We also know psych meds help people
We know corporations, whether they produce food, shoes, or medicine, seek monopolies, political power, and to maximise profits at the expense of society. Big Pharmaceutical corporations, like all corporations, have structural capitalist imperatives which are harmful towards democratic societies. However we should not confuse the valid critique of corporate capitalism for a blanket declaration that we don’t ever need food, shoes, or medicine.
RITB supports people’s own decisions, whatever works for you to live your best life, whilst demanding we have real choices not just meds and/or CBT/DBT/mindfulness/recovery school.
We also know that calls from predominantly professionals led cohorts seeking model primacy to shut down Big Pharma, in itself, doesn’t magically stop people from becoming ill/distressed. Nor does a different theory of distress and illness by a different elite of professionals in charge give service users, survivors and disabled people liberation from oppression. We do not seek a new boss (same as the old boss) we seek to overturn the power structures themselves.
The social determinants are frequently cited, well here it is in glorious technicolor – austerity for 15 years, now being intensified will be a human catastrophe on a far greater scale if not stopped.
Consider what immediately helps – fighting for people to have the means to live – or being ideologically ‘correct’.
Dead people validates no-ones theories, unless you are a genocidaire.
Recovery in the Bin 