Posted by Chris O on April 11, 2016, at 0:42:58
In reply to Re: Mad in America, posted by Christ_empowered on April 10, 2016, at 3:03:19
I agree with much of what you say, but do not have time to respond right now. Someday, I will come back and dialogue about this. It's remarkable how the needier I am, the sh*tt**r, the more desperate I feel, the worse that psychiatrists and psychologists often treat me. I go for help and I get re-wounded by their...inability to help me stand up for myself more, the only reason I am there to begin with. I'm not there to become more dependent, more codependent. F that.
It's interesting that you bring up your Christianity because I believe that psychiatry and psychology (and most western "sciences," "soft" and "hard") are deeply rooted in secularized Judeo-Christian beliefs, specifically, secularized Apocalyptic notions of "progress"--the idea that we are all moving toward some grand end, a secular philosophical version of Christ's return (in which we learn all the secrets of the universe and become eternally enlightened). The British philosopher John Gray writes poignantly about this. What is "normal" in western culture (after St. Augustine) except a dim vision of Protestant Christian values? That is where most Europeans and European-Americans get their core beliefs, not from Confucianism (East Asia), Confucianism + Buddhism (South + Southeast Asia), Hinduism (India), Islam (Middle East, Southeast Asia, North Africa). "Medicalizing" "deviance" is (purportedly) the ultimate secular punch in the face to Protestant Christianity, (by taking what was previously explained as "evil," "sinful," and "scientizing" it). Ironically, when secular western culture scientistizes "sin," it then becomes the rigid Puritanical Protestant it is supposedly standing up to (by "outcasting"--via draconian treatments--"patients"), thus showing that secular western culture (as is all rebellion) is nothing more than false "escape," no escape at all, really. So, I'd be happy if someone would save me from this snake eating itself syndrome, too. But I'm babbling and overwhelmed with tasks I can't complete. Sorry. Keep up the journey.
Chris
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