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Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
"Psychiatric labels don't correspond to known biological pathologies that treatments can then target & ‘cure’. They're rather socially constructed labels ascribed to collections of feelings & behaviours deemed disordered by the psychiatric committees compiling DSM." #Sedated
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
Signs someone lacks accountability:
~calls you too sensitive
~tells you to let it go
~claims you live in the past
~focuses on your response not their own actions
~focuses on your reactive abuse not their abusive behaviours
~starts fights, screams & yells each time you try to speak up to scare you into submission
~calls you a nag
~views only your full compliance as healthy
~they should be able to do and say whatever they want with no consequences
~you are the problem always
~they punish you (silent treatment, walking away, get distance & cold, freaking out) if you dare try to have a fair conversation that holds them accountability
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
Maybe you’re not depressed.
Maybe you’re just experiencing the normal human emotion of: sadness.
Humans aren’t supposed to be happy 24/7
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
Chronic negativity is a coping mechanism most people don’t even know they use because it’s so reinforced in society.
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
The word "depression" has turned into an umbrella term representing anything upsetting, distressing, sad, feeling unmotivated or fatigued … regardless of cause. It’s completely lost it’s meaning. Exactly how Pharma & the medical industrial complex want it.
RESIST
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
One more time for those at the back: you can’t tell if someone is abusive in their domestic relationships just cos they are nice to you or people you know.
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
“The pandemic of mental anguish that afflicts our time cannot be properly understood, or healed, if viewed as a private problem suffered by damaged individuals.” It’s now the time to re-politicise our approach to mental pain & distress.
― Mark Fisher
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
🧵Rightly, many men have asked what they can do about male violence. It’s a big and nuanced topic, but here are some real-life tools + tasks men can do to help women be safer:
1) Acknowledge + own the fact that male violence against women is an issue without defensiveness + ego
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
For GenZ, the neurofication of everyday life is depoliticising more & more forms of adverse human experience as rooted in fixed neuro-disabilities, that need to be accommodated, rather than in various forms of structural harm & oppression that need to be confronted & overthrown.
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
The expression of antidepressants as safe & effective is what we call the "illusion of truth effect". If you say something enough times people believe it as fact. This has been the power of the chemical imbalance marketing strategy & Pharma influence.
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
The real story of cults isn't the leaders or followers-- it's how spectacularly the mental health profession has always, & continues to, fail trauma survivors & addicts who are desperate to recover.
Also the field's pathological unwillingness to admit this.
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
Dear psychologists, psychiatrists, academics and therapists, you’ve gotten too comfy slinging terms around that are extremely serious, and are now meaningless.
The amount of you calling each other ‘abusers’, ‘predators’, ‘psychopaths’, ‘narcissists’ - over what? Someone not agreeing with your philosophies or theories? Someone blocking you without explanation? Someone you don’t like doing a bit too well? Someone you just don’t like very much?
Lots of us have big platforms. People look up to us. They follow us. They read our stuff. So many of you have accounts that are just days and days of calling people ‘abusers/predators/narcissists/psychopaths’, quote tweeting people, screenshotting from behind blocks and snitch-tagging people for an argument.
It’s embarrassing behaviour.
You have people who follow you who have been abused. They’ve been raped. They’ve been exploited. They’ve actually been targeted and harmed by ‘abusers’ and ‘predators’.
They have had their lives turned upside down by these people. Their kids have been removed. They’ve been hospitalised. They have lifelong injuries. Scars. They’ve had to move house. Move their kids schools. Run away from their birth families. They’ve spent years trying to recover from the massive traumas of abuse.
And here you are on Twitter, telling some academic from another university that they are ‘dangerous’ and an ‘abuser/predator/psychopath’, because you don’t agree with them about a fucking study finding or you have different views on a theory.
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
Hey everyone. I am reaching out for support. 😔
I have been chatting on here, respectfully and happily.
Yesterday I tweeted that there are many narcissists/psychopaths/predators in the psychiatric and psychology community based on my PhD research.
The responses from mental health professionals have been nothing short of abusive. I feel judged, character-assassinated, misunderstood, humiliated, disrespected. I feel physically sick.
I am stunned at the maliciousness and demeaning nature of the group bullying from mental health professionals. I am really, really distressed.
Have a look at all the retweet comments on the post below.
For any psychiatrists and psychologists who might like to actually read my work before further attacking me, here is a link…
researchbank.swinburne.edu.a…
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
"There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds."
-– Laurell K. Hamilton
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
Any Psychiatrist that denies this now is acting outside the evidence base and in clear violation of ethical practice
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
When your nervous system is outside its capacity it will be difficult to engage with others, do everyday tasks, read & be present.
Your body is using all its energy to keep you safe, there’s not much left for anything else.
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
Easy does it. Breathe; blink; focus; & make the choice in front of you as if you love yourself & are committed to staying safe & stable today.
Trauma's gonna try to scare & distract you. But come back.
Easy. Breathe; blink; focus; remember.
This is how we work our recovery.
Kimberly Maize MSW retweeted
Normalize going through something and needing time alone without people getting worried.