ruleout: gaslighting

researchers discover correlation between increased exposure to psychiatry and increased incidence of suicide.

my reactions to my own failure to release preconceptions about people when i meet them is my issue, not theirs.

i wonder how much of the "behavioral illness" in the developed world is the result of a handful of people insisting that someone in their group isn't "like them good enough", and the person they're singling out, of course being precisely and predictably exactly like them... and you, and me, and every other human being... and wanting so much to belong that they end up letting themselves get put through the wringer?  i'm not saying mental illness isn't a thing. i'm saying i'd like to know what the ratio of "i think there's something wrong" to "everyone keeps telling me there's something wrong" is.  no mental health professional is even going to suggest "maybe they're wrong", either for pride or liability's sake.  that's a blind spot in therapy, and when it's the truth (which it has a good chance of being. people are wrong all the time), it's a tragedy.

the only mental health condition someone being coerced into mental health treatment should be presumed to have is ptsd, because you do not want to know what i been through to get here.