Nick Taber
@NickTaber
Thinking about authoritarianism in school, the mental health industry, & families. Self-awareness & human potential #TroubledTeenIndustry http://nicktaber.bsky.social
My YouTube channel where I discuss: - healing from authoritarian mental health institutions, families, and schools - recovering your potential from the negative effects of conventional schooling - the nature of rebellion in young people youtube.com/@nicktaber2969
Parents think they’re helping their kids by making them compliant and “nice”. By breaking down their edge. Be careful with this, because if they do ever develop teeth, you may feel them. Nobody likes being made powerless.
Absolutely.
The ability for school and parental authorities to label pretty much anything they want in children as “mental illness” is a way to deflect responsibility for the misery they’re causing. Adult authorities bounce between blaming the biology of the kid and blaming the character of…
"What most psychotherapists do, with the backing of the mental health system, is they take people who are in suffering and try to help them go back to dissociation...They try to make the clients become reflections of the therapists themselves." youtube.com/watch?v=IwS7Hy…
“When you get a mental health system that operates by force, it can’t be a good one.” youtu.be/VXqkm-gc5CQ?si…
The further you go on your healing journey, the clearer it becomes who was supporting it and who was sabatoging it, including mental health professionals, coaches, etc.
“Even more than politicians, therapists, by the very nature of their profession, are protected from usual forms of scrutiny. Psychotherapy is a self-policing profession.” - Jeffrey Masson
Or were never created from the heart in the first place.
So many systems have deviated from Love. 🌌
So many systems have deviated from Love. 🌌
I think there’s so much power-seeking in the mental health system that the people in that system who don’t see it are numb to it (whether in themselves, others, or both).
I think there’s so much power-seeking in the mental health system that the people in that system who don’t see it are numb to it (whether in themselves, others, or both).
Jesus
I had two very beneficial relationships with counsellors who worked alongside me for around 8-12 sessions each. The Psychotherapist I saw weekly however told me that he was expecting a 20 YEAR psychoanalytic relationship with me! No thank you very much!
I wouldn’t object to the idea that for some people a therapist is important. But for most people it’s essential to have a therapist in a central position in their healing process? And most poeple can’t heal themselves? Really? Why can’t most people look at their own thoughts,…
You are for sure right in certain ways, but overly harsh in others, e.g. you can't lump person centred/relational counselling in with psychiatry. The alternative of leaving people to heal themselves is just not tenable. People being able to heal themselves is the exception
It’s fascinating how the people who are actually healing get psycho-pathologized by people who are not.
“Your child has depression and ADHD and exhibits signs of being suicidal, but the prisonlike school we force them into seven hours a day definitely has nothing to do with that at all.”
The ability for school and parental authorities to label pretty much anything they want in children as “mental illness” is a way to deflect responsibility for the misery they’re causing. Adult authorities bounce between blaming the biology of the kid and blaming the character of…
Or I’ve often seen comments on here saying basically “You’re wrong. Therapy is amazing. Of course I had to waste years trying out different ones that were useless at best but once I found the right one it was life changing.” Does that kind of trajectory really sit right with…
I see basically endless rhetoric (selling) about how therapy and professional guidance is essential and wonderful and everyone could benefit from it. What I don’t see is honesty about the risks and limitations. I don’t see intellectual honesty. If these people were forthcoming…
I see basically endless rhetoric (selling) about how therapy and professional guidance is essential and wonderful and everyone could benefit from it. What I don’t see is honesty about the risks and limitations. I don’t see intellectual honesty. If these people were forthcoming…
I disagree with you. The hurting sometimes need someone to gently guide them through the hurt to understand what happened to them & what it did to their bodies & hearts and into healing. Theabused can have a hard time facing the hurt so they can heal and not live in that trauma.
Many parents who send their kids away to the #TroubledTeenIndustry were themselves sent away. I’ve never seen any of them acknowledge the role of intergenerational trauma there.
Yes, @NickTaber! Incredibly, this industry is so inhumane as it uses force to drug, frighten and harm people and dares to call this 'helpful'. The public is brainwashed to think there is no other way to act!
I recommend signing up for Mindfreedom’s Shield alert to support people who are undergoing the most unconscionable abuse at the hands of coercive psychiatry and potentially help them. Was reading about a young man who was sent a $300,000 bill for an involuntary stay at a…
Agreed, @NickTaber, and it needs to be more widely recognized and discussed.
The ability for school and parental authorities to label pretty much anything they want in children as “mental illness” is a way to deflect responsibility for the misery they’re causing. Adult authorities bounce between blaming the biology of the kid and blaming the character of…
The ability for school and parental authorities to label pretty much anything they want in children as “mental illness” is a way to deflect responsibility for the misery they’re causing. Adult authorities bounce between blaming the biology of the kid and blaming the character of…
I’ve certainly seen this, “On several occasions, I’ve seen school failure and the threat of not graduating high school make a teenager suicidal. Teens’ pain of failure is exacerbated by their parents’ anxiety over failure, and teens become hopeless that all of life will be as…
"Our present system of schooling alienates us so sharply from inner genius, most of us are barred from ever being able to hear our calling." - @realjohngatto