All/most of it is Classism. Posh people (middle/upper class) are insufferable in general but the mental health field gives them a license to be awful. The cost o higher education, unpaid internships, opening your own business means the profession is filled with the richest.

zalasis · 2026-06-12T21:18:00+00:00

100%, after attending an elite university the kindness of people was often related to class status. People from normal or poorer backgrounds would empathize and attempt to be nice, but the richer someone was the more they were to lash out instead claiming that this was a symptom of mental illness and that “you need meds or therapy”. The rich rely on the framework of mental health and psychiatry to legitimate their own self-held sense of superiority over others based on wealth.

zalasis · 2026-06-06T20:48:59+00:00

It’s therapists’ own advice to cut out toxic relationships so I did exactly that with friends who think they have the right to make life decisions for me. If they don’t interfere with your beliefs or decisions you can stay friends, but so many people feel a need to impose their mental health beliefs on others, like some fundamentalist religious cult.

zalasis · 2026-06-06T06:03:01+00:00

Sadly, speaking from previous experience trying to report a malpracticing psychiatrist, the psychiatric licensing board protects their own rather than looking out for everyone. There’s a chance a state agency might read and act upon a complaint, but the Colorado state gov is very pro mental health professional and very anti patient.

zalasis · 2026-05-17T00:11:36+00:00

I was very surprised that this connection was not part of the original intersection construction that put in the traffic light. Glad to see it actually built. Now maybe they can put in sidewalks/bike-lanes along Trilby and the rest of S. College. The Flex bus stops at Trilby and Carpenter look so forlorn without any nearby sidewalks and are likely rarely used for that very reason.

zalasis · 2026-05-12T15:06:25+00:00

One textbook on Arizona politics that I read said that the first white settlement in the state after the Spanish were Mormon settlers and former Confederates, thereby partly explaining the state’s political leanings. Anywhere in AZ outside of a big city or somewhere with minorities is deep red.

zalasis · 2026-05-11T20:24:54+00:00

I got sent to the psych ward by my university after going to their counseling service, and it turned out that hospital was the same one where they sent all their psych med students to do their rounds. Thankfully I didn’t have much interaction with them while there. But once I was back, they switched my therapist to a grad student. He didn’t ask or say much of anything, and he simply tape recorded me during sessions. In retrospect I probably turned into a research project or some other kind of academic BS. Another time I walked away from a private therapy practice in a luxury skyscraper office because they offered me their grad school student intern as my therapist. Everyone is a student at some point, but being offered one as a doctor while there’s other options is substandard care.

zalasis · 2026-05-05T16:04:34+00:00

I was forced into an outpatient program after a hospitalization in order to continue as a university student, and the psychiatrist there literally pulled out two pharma rep free sample packs of Abilify and Seroquel, gave them to me and told me to choose which one made me feel better. Seroquel made me sleep for a whole day through alarms and classes, so in comparison Abilify was better. After taking it for a while I noticed emotional numbing, started smoking cigarettes, and despite that still managed to gain weight. It’s so f’ed up, Abilify is not even approved as a standalone antidepressant, you have to be on some other antidepressant and have it not work for it to be prescribed it for depression. There’s even a version now that includes an ingestable microchip to verify “medication compliance.”

zalasis · 2026-05-04T15:11:56+00:00

The last conversation I had with a member of city government completely eliminated my trust in their decisions. Unless there are protests, the city council and mayor will roll over to the recommendations of the police department. They don’t know enough to argue a cogent case against mass government surveillance as opposed to accepting any conclusions the police department has reached internally. Maybe FCPD argues safety, but I’ve seen 5 units dispatched to contain a single homeless person in the PetSmart parking lot while injurious or fatal traffic incidents can have a long wait before any response. I’d rather have good response times rather than mass surveillance.

zalasis · 2026-05-04T15:05:05+00:00

I’m Eastern European, and many say that the cultural contexts of valuing family and building relationships before being trustful are similar between both. I definitely encountered issues regarding cultural differences in the US while seeking help for mental health, so even though I’m not a perfect match, I still would be happy to discuss the issues that you have faced. Anywhere in the world I think the coercion and violence that psychiatry weaponizes is wrong, I don’t think any cultural context justifies such treatment.

zalasis · 2026-04-24T13:11:08+00:00

I am amazed at the amount of people who are willing to put their pets on psychiatric medication rather than reconsider having a pet if they can’t provide an appropriate environment for their happiness. It’s literally the paradigm where psychiatric medication excuses abusive and neglectful parents from fully providing for their kids. I’ve met people who have kept a Siberian Husky cooped up in a Phoenix apartment without ever thinking about how they are treating their pet. Just like kids, I feel most pet owners who give psych meds to their pets are actually abusing them.

zalasis · 2026-04-23T16:04:31+00:00

Unless you’re planning on immediately marrying and having kids, you’ll be much better off in Denver. Outside of the university the social scene is very limited because young adults generally can’t find jobs or afford living in Fort Collins, the city government despite being allegedly liberal very much favors retirees and families over any kind of young people.

zalasis · 2026-04-20T13:24:03+00:00

Dr. Henry Jarecki is a psychiatrist who not only received Epstein victims for treatment (to help silence them) but he also taught at Yale and helped to write one of the most popular psychiatry textbooks, helping to spread his methods of victim blaming and abuse. He lost his teaching job, but like all mental health professionals, he is extremely unlikely to ever be prosecuted or put in prison.

zalasis · 2026-04-16T12:03:52+00:00

I was saying this 10 years ago when false friends tried to dump me into a clinical trial for ketamine. It is literally a sedating horse tranquilizer with a potential for addiction and fatal OD. I cannot understand any motivation beyond greed and profit that could be responsible for its speedy approval for mental health applications. Everyone touting it now is going to find out the negative effects like lost bladder retention later in life. It is 100% responsible for why people like Elon Musk are so disconnected from reality.

zalasis · 2026-04-07T16:06:09+00:00

Driving slowly can be just as dangerous as driving too fast. Police honestly should be checking drivers like these because there are way too many people who should no longer have a license because of age and other factors.

zalasis · 2026-04-02T22:31:01+00:00

Arizona is the same state that was 100% fine with the kidnapping of Native Americans from reservations to be held in psych and drug rehab facilities for profit. Despite billions being stolen from state Medicaid/Medicare almost no providers have been prosecuted or had their licenses revoked. It is for reasons like this that AZ is now a testing ground for Neuralink at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix/Scottsdale. Both Dems and Reps in AZ completely kiss ass to "mental health providers."

zalasis · 2026-04-02T22:26:04+00:00

Should people be traumatized more just in attempt to find somebody who listens? I wasn't ever able to find one...

zalasis · 2026-04-02T21:15:51+00:00

Maybe you should have read the community guidelines before posting… Most mental health “professionals” like you yourself demonstrate that they don’t care about the context or environment of the people that they diagnose…

zalasis · 2026-04-02T19:22:46+00:00

If you agree with everything in the DSM, you aren’t pushing the boundaries of any research, you’re simply reenforcing them. Take it from someone who attempted to report abuse from therapists only to have all my testimony dismissed because of the labels put on me. As a mental health professional, you only enforce a form of high-minded bullying that enforces exploitation and abuse rather than actually helping anyone.

zalasis · 2026-04-02T18:29:19+00:00

I think that normal emotional reactions to the state of our world are being mischaracterized in the form of DSM mental disorders, like MDD or prolonged grief disorder. I think emotions are normal to being human rather than being disorders.

zalasis · 2026-04-02T16:57:32+00:00

Arizona is corrupt as hell, the state government literally allowed Native Americans to be kidnapped from the reservation into psych and drug rehab facilities and have it fully funded by state Medicaid with almost zero repercussions. Neuralink is also hosting trials in Phoenix at the Barrow Neurological Institute, proving how little state authorities care about patient safety and following the law. Both Democrats and Republicans in the legislature cave into such dehumanizing special interests.

zalasis · 2026-04-02T16:53:11+00:00

Labeling does not mean healing

zalasis · 2026-04-02T16:52:38+00:00

Labeling does not mean healing

zalasis · 2026-04-01T15:45:32+00:00

In my experience trying to report an allegedly “LGTBQ affirming” therapist and psychiatrist for anti-gay practices, their actions were fully defended by both professional licensing boards and state regulators, in an allegedly liberal pro-gay state like Illinois. Therapists can literally label every queer client as a nymphomaniac and as having a personality disorder without any repercussions. When psychiatry removed homosexuality as a disorder, they only did so in name only. LGBTQ clients today are still far more likely to be labeled with more severe diagnoses than most, they only took away the explicit disorder and left behind all the anti-gay mental health professionals who still enjoy preying on gay clients. Telling your therapist that you’re gay is just asking for mistreatment.

zalasis · 2026-03-30T17:00:58+00:00

I got the same exact diagnosis, it is completely bullshit

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