Discussion Psychological Hot Takes

[NormallyNeurotic]

I want to hear you guys' hot takes on psychological topics.

It could be anything like:

• Neurodivergency (any condition/disorder that diverges ftom the socially-accepted norm of functioning, not just AuDHD)
• Psych wards
• Emotional maturity and how that plays into the right to die
• Stigmatized conditions (Personality disorders, complex dissociative disorders, OCD subtypes that involve instrusive thoughts/obsessions about taboo stuff, etc)
• The validity of psych meds
• People like Freud, Yung, etc
• Certain mental topics/conditions that are considered taboo to talk about (suicidal intent, murderous intent, paraphilias, etc)
• Anything else you guys can think of!

I will probably list my psych hot takes on this thread later, but I know a few people on here already know some of them.

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REGARDING THE POLL:
This site has so many people, and even though sample size of "happy people" is low, we have a varied sample size of different types of people in active suffering/crisis.

Because of this, there's bound to be people with varied experiences/opinions on psychological topics, and knowing what each person categorizes themselves as being (in regards to happiness) is helpful for adding perspective/context to some more devisive opinions that may be posted to this thread.

If you are in between two poll answers, feel free to check both!​

 

[martyrdom]

Should I choose peace today and not say any of my opinions, or should I choose violence and get lynched? That is the question.

 

[NormallyNeurotic]

Should I choose peace today and not say any of my opinions, or should I choose violence and get lynched? That is the question.

Relatable lol

 

[dogteeth]

Hot take:
Sabina Spielrein's contributions to early psychology are underappreciated. The death drive / death instinct is almost always attributed to Freud, usually with no mention of her being the one to first come up with the concept.

Poll:
Not sure about being able to feel much true happiness currently, but I am able to feel pleasure in things and I try my best to do things I find fun at least once a day. It's hard though, most nice things feel more like a distraction than a truly fulfilling activity.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I'd say I'm rarely happy. Definitely not half the time anyway. Maybe rarely is too seldom a word though. Somewhere a bit above rarely maybe.

I'm not well read enough on psychiatry. I do hold some opinions though. I think the brain is far less well understood than our other organs. It shocks me that so much diagnosis is based on a person's description of their symptoms. Imagine if doctors diagnosed serious heart conditions like that? Without running ECG's and X-rays. I would have thought the brain itself would have been more closely examined and understood by now. That could well be my naivity speaking though- perhaps it is. But, I do get the sense more emphasis is placed on dusty old theories- rather than actual examination of the organ responsible.

So- it shocks me even more that they will prescribe mind altering drugs when they may not fully understand how they work and what the long- term side effects may be. I don't think patients are made aware of the risks either. Asides from the impossibly small print probably anyone really fully considers. Many members here have ended up worse off thanks to it. All in all- I'd have to be utterly desperate to put my trust in psychiatry. I don't fancy the risk of being a guinea pig for them!

Same deal really for psyche wards. Unless someone truly is being violent and endangering others, I think forcing (arguably) experiemental drugs on them isn't great. I also think there should be varying severities of wards. I've seen documentaries where extremely mild cases were housed with extremely volatile and violent patients. It's not to blame them but- how is that going to help the person with the milder symptoms to get better? To be in a potentially dangerous and emotionally distressing environment?

I think people aged 18 upwards of sound mind (as in- they can speak rationally on why they want to die) should have the right to have an assisted death. With an assessment. A six month waiting period when help and support is offered. I think their families would need to be informed. To start to ensure that the right to die is accepted in society.

I think we should be talking more as a society about the difficult subjects- suicide, paraphilia, homicidal thoughts etc. Pretending it isn't there isn't going to make it go away!

I simply can't work out whether we are in the grips of a mental illness epidemic. Or, whether we've always had these problems but, didn't always have the terms for them.

I also don't know the best way to deal with them. The tough love approach- you may find life especially hard but- you'll have to face it anyway. Or, the more gentle approach- don't do anything you find too challenging. The latter not always yielding a happy result necessarily. Not all NEETS are content. I just wonder what would have happened if my family didn't push me in certain ways. Would I have ended up better or worse?

I suppose when it comes to the sometimes villainized disorders- narcissism, psychopathy, sociopathy. Sometimes even borderline. I get why that would be upsetting for someone with it. I also get why it must be annoying for the terms to be banded about- this person's a narcissist etc.

There again- speaking as someone who I believe has been victim to such intense bullying, it caused my ideation- it helped me enormously to figure out it could well have been narcissistic abuse. It gave a kind of reason/ framework as to the utterly crazy ways they would behave.

Although I think diagnosing someone else is actually pretty unfair- it can be a useful tool for the person who either is or is potentially going be their victim. Spotting red flags can potentially make us more cautious around certain types of people. And sometimes if necessary and serious enough- it may mean we should avoid them all together. That may piss them off but, I don't see why people should just be cannon fodder for them.

That's not to say if a person declares themselves to have a disorder- you run a mile! That at least shows they have self awareness. But definitely- if I experienced stuff like gas lighting or outright lies about me being banded about again- I'd be off.