I spoke with mental healthcare and it was about me at my worst.
I never wanted to be my worst and it was thoroughly through my own efforts that I brought myself to a better place.
The better place was not much better. I'd have likely totally self destructed had I not taken steps to get help. I found help and was honest about my issues. As a result I was diagnosed as antisocial. And nearly immediately after, when my insurance changed I lost all the help. I was left with the condemnation of an antisocial personality disorder diagnosis, plus a ridiculous bunch of other confusing diagnoses and comments that a person such as myself is untreatable because meds don't work for AsPD and therapy is only marginal. i was also left with no significant help in finding new help. A bunch of former mental healthcare providers and others, who were “very sorry” that I lost my help (them) only lifted their pinkies for a moment to try to see that such a person as myself would find uninterrupted help.
The interruption turned out to be 8 months. I am not convinced that the diagnosis was not some kind of spite or worse. I think a system that leaves someone in need of help and who is a person who is actively trying to make himself better and seeking the help, stranded, is dark ages!
I think spite is dark ages. I think as I mentioned earlier, punishment and revenge and "correction" are dark ages too. I've seen many here on SF telling tales of lousy mental healthcare and categorization and mistreatment. It's all dark ages because it is not compassion driven. its money driven at best. its a belief that the “mentally ill” are lesser people who should be put out of the way. It's "let's clean up the place" thinking.
It is a refusal to own a part of the responsibility that society is full of ills that breed mental illness/disorders and or make it flourish. Then the industry, ruled by insurance companies that are certainly antisocial themselves, promote self serving requirements and foster closed minded thinking.
I know there are many compassionate people out there but they are frightened by the narrow or closed minded thinking and laws by fools who don't really understand mental illness at all. And that what goes on in one mind is not what goes on in another. treatment has to be very specific to the particular patient. That in this present system a diagnosis is very easily twisted into something hurtful and no one is able to do anything (or only very little) to make care actually be care.
It's all dark ages unless real open-mindedness somehow is able to change everything drastically. really big major changes that would infringe on the ‘rights” of the big money makers to make the money and would make vengeance a thing of the past. there is probably a bit of sadism in our society as well. its dark ages!
I have ideas of changes needed too. many that i’ve heard and some from my own thinking. I actually just attended a zoom for an intro to an organization for victims of childhood sexual abuse - that just kicked off a fund raising event. I plan to provide a link shortly. i think they are very forward thinking but still very unknown.
