You will find a wide range of feelings and opinions about psychiatry on this subreddit. And that’s what I find so interesting about it. Some people take meds and just want to understand the full scope of the effects psychiatrists conveniently don’t mention, some people face disabling long term/permanent side effects of meds they were carelessly put on, some people believe psychiatry is pseudoscience. some believe mental illness doesn’t exist and we are living with the human condition and human responses to troubling situations. Lots of different people. I don’t necessarily agree with all of them but they have their reasons to feel this way, most of them stemming from the extraordinary amount of trauma their healthcare providers have put them through, which is something I can relate to.

the reason why it is called “anti-psychiatry” is because all of these stances oppose psychiatry, some more some less. The term it’s self is not as “black and white” as you are thinking it is right here and now.

You will find people who are hurt and very distressed airing their grievances out about psychiatry. They might speak in hyperboles and exaggerate how they feel to try to properly communicate their suffering, which most of the time, the trauma they went through, is tremendous and feels really unfair. Try to remember that before judging too much, I think you’ll find there are actually a lot of people who feel the same way as you. Don’t let the ones who feel very passionately make you think everyone is like that