Daughter of a Psychiatrist

[Published 14 May 2016 on Mad In America, by Mariel Chance]

TW for child abuse, CSA, substance abuse, suicide

"Modern psychiatry claims that psychiatric diagnoses are lifelong, debilitating, organic illnesses, despite the fact that there are no physical tests to determine mental illness. I would say that psychiatric diagnosis seems more like a tool of stigma and manipulation, placed upon a person in an authoritarian manner when the psychiatrist deems fit. I should know; my mother was a psychiatrist."