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Deborah Kasdan's avatar

Thus guest post is immensely helpful in framing important issues in critical psychiatry and disability rights

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Sofia Jeppsson's avatar

I think it's so important to realize that basically everything can be captured by nasty elites. These ideas - people go on sick leave for nothing, young snowflakes imagine that they have a mental problem because they've never learnt to deal with the natural hardships of life, etc - are pushed in Sweden too. But there was also this time when our horrible racist right-wing government suggested that maybe young men of colour living in poor and crime-ridden neighbourhoods are restless and a nuisance because of ADHD - couldn't we send psychiatrists out there, do some kind of quick diagnosis of the lot, and then medicate them into a nicer demeanor? Obvs actual medical professionals quickly shut down this ridiculous idea.

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