QAC 59 - Antidepressants 3 Months Later | BetterHelp: Online Therapy| World Mental Health Day

[@wills6825]

So glad to hear that you've been able to access support! That sounds like a great service (and one I could definitely have used at various points in the past).

[@felixxferd]

You seem to be looking up again and acutally getting better, and it makes me really happy to see that! Good luck with therapy!

[@pluezilvlk8427]

I'm so glad you're back

[@legitboring]

Ehm, just gonna put it out there, I for one am very damn excited about meeting Calcifer. I'm glad you're able to get back to vlogging. I'm notoriously bad at keeping up but yours are the only videos I watch with any semblance of regularity. I'm also glad that you've decided to give therapy a try and actually found something, dare I say, helpful... I really appreciate you making this video because being mentally healthy is not a strength of mine and while I'm interested in attaining some kind of balance in reference to it I'm hilariously jaded with the mental health system in general. Thanks again and good luck.

[@RaffiQueer]

It's good to see your face and thank you for making yourself so vulnerable and for talking about it - it helps to know others are going through similar things!

[@xmusikkaosx]

watching your videos extra much today cause well i'm having a bad day, and can I just say you're a goddamn hero. im also someone who fidgets with my skin (basically) and to be honest i did'nt notice it on your face, but even if i did you still in any case are beautiful. thankyou for sharing all of this.

[@QueerAsCat]

you really are far, far too kind. thank you for this really kind comment.

[@xmusikkaosx]

of course, you're one of my favourite youtubers and i can only strive to be as kind as you are! best wishes to you to, keep fighting! ♥

[@KatrinaEames]

I'm glad the medication is helping and that your therapy is helping

[@janistransbian]

you don't look like shit. you look beautiful. you are beautiful.

[@QueerAsCat]

you're far too kind. thank you.

[@janistransbian]

you are far too kind as well, thank you back.

[@Hanayanaa]

wow thank you for sharing this. I had done a video and shared the lifeline TELL for foreigners in Japan but after that video a friend of mine told me her terrible experience with them. I will update everyone and share this video for ppl to watch on my podcast this week. Want to make people get the help they need.

[@LILA-FANAL]

Thank you for sharing your experiences and the ressources. At the moment I am wondering if I want to have a therapist for my depression, gender confusion and coping with trauma again but at the same time I get anxiety when it comes to imagine mental violence maybe used by straight cis-persons in therapy. Understanding more of feminist critics on psychiatry and getting a lot of support out of connecting mental health issues with queerfeminist, (in my case a queer anarchafeminist perspective), anti-capitalist or social justice related thoughts doesn't make it easier to find my own way to cope, automatically. Can you connect with some ideas of the feminist anti-psychiatry movement (or its shades)? I would love to hear your thoughts about getting clearly society related mental struggles, what do you think?

[@QueerAsCat]

i'm afraid that i'm not at all familiar with the feminist anti-psychiatry movement or even feminism in general , so i don't really have any particular thoughts about what you've said. do you mind if i ask what are some of the common feminist criticisms about psychiatry..? i could ask Google and probably will, but i'm interested in your experiences and thoughts.

[@LILA-FANAL]

Hejhej, thanks for your reply! As I mentioned before I just started to make a focus on psychiatry criticism - I guess on of the best known cases is the connection cis-men made between so called hysteria and women. This case is one of those which are better reflected today but there are many other connections made in a very problematic way related to forced medication, a powerfully made up connection between diagnosises of ‘borderline for women and aggression for men’, in diagnosis in general and in the separation of individual mental suffering and collective trauma without mentioning structures in society. There are also feminist anti-psychiatry suggestions in debates about trigger warnings, definitions of mental health and disease, depoliticization of mental health in general, pathologization, or in structures like rape culture. At the moment I’m reading a book about this topics, unfortunately it is in German, but there are some resources you could check if you want to: Lisa Appignanesi’s “Mad, Bad and Sad. A History of Women And The Mind Doctors From 1800 To The Present”, bell hooks “Where we stand. Class matters,” Jonathan Metzl “The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease” or Jane Ussher’s “Women’s Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness?” are some of the books referenced there. Also this article: www.bgdblog.org/2014/02/eatingdisordersareforwhitewomen/ Please excuse my poor English skills and feel free to ask for more details if you want to! joh.

[@siginotmylastname3969]

@@LILA-FANAL the reason anti psychiatry is a flawed concept is the same as anti biology or anti geology. ALL fields which are areas of vital research for things like climate change, mental illness etc also have dark sides. Does geologists working for oil companies or engineers making bombs mean all engineers or geologists are bad? This isn't an acab situation. Science, unlike oppressive institutions, doesn't have an ideology, it's just a tool. So people drive the research in different directions depending on their own ideology, making the problems arising from such research political and not inherent to a field like psychiatry. Psychiatry is just people researching how to change brain chemistry, nothing inherently oppressive. Also the movement was literally started by an abled psychiatrist who quit, not disabled people as you'd expect.