The Soviet system used psychiatry as a weapon by diagnosing political opponents as mentally ill in order to confine them as patients instead of trying them in court. Anyone who challenged the state such as dissidents, writers, would-be emigrants, religious believers, or human rights activists could be branded with fabricated disorders like sluggish schizophrenia. This turned normal political disagreement into supposed medical pathology and allowed the state to present dissent as insanity.
Once labeled in this way, people were placed in psychiatric hospitals where they could be held for long periods without legal protections. Harsh treatments were often used to break their resolve. The collaboration between state security organs and compliant psychiatrists created a system where political imprisonment was disguised as medical care, letting the Soviet regime suppress opposition while pretending it was addressing illness rather than silencing critics.
In America black people are diagnosed schizophrenic or psychotic because they talk about institutional racism to white clinicians that don’t believe them
Somewhat relatedly, the W Bush administration expanded mental health screening and recordskeepint, and broadened the use of somewhat dangerous antipsychotics for non psychotic conditions in the wake of the Patriot Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Freedom_Commission_on_Mental_Health
Pretty sure America does that.
They certainly are trying with calling people who hate Trump by calling it “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
I think it’s beyond that too… Like cops and feds etc seem to do it. Basically gaslight people until they so no one believes them.
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted when just this year, Minnesota senators were trying to make “TDS” a legitimate mental illness
Well “getting downvoted” means +11 -1 now I guess.
But regardless maybe that one guy said “nuh uh” because
were trying to make “TDS” a legitimate mental illness
Sounds to me (and maybe that guy) like they didn’t succeed in that and that they don’t lock people up for anti-state-mental-illness (hell we barely lock up actual dangerous mentally ill people after Regan closed the asylums.)
Right wing traitor lunatics in the US have gotten closer and closer to classifying opposition to them as mental illness.
No the American secret police just makes them suicide with a bullet to the back of the head. Rip Gary Webb.
They’ve grown slightly more ardoit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)
But they have plenty of finger puppets that will happily bone saw you apart alive in their consolate while your pregnant wife waits in the car if your death is more punitive then preventative.
So it’s like lemmy.ml
The problem is psychiatry in general. Always been a tool for hegemonic control.
From the article, western sources claim some 15k people affected over the entirety of the Soviet Union. So yeah, something that did happen, but still quite a minor thing for a country with 300 million people over 70+ years of existence.
For comparison, over 700k people experience homelessness today in the USA, which is arguably at least as damaging to mental (let alone physical health), and if we count the number of people who have experienced homelessness over the past 70 years in the USA it’s several million if not tens of millions.
Sounds oddly familiar to “If you’re against the online safety act you’re siding with pedophiles.”
Only considered it?
May want to check out what’s happening in USA and UK.
Fucking Trump wants to deport citizens for disagreeing with him.
I live in the UK. Being against the UK government is not considered a mental illness.
In the US, they do that today. Also if you’re old
Bernie still walks free.
So do all Republicans. Even though they are against the state.
You do have free speech to a fault. Most other countries don’t allow you as much.
Citation?
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“in the united states, they considered being against the state a mental illness” is the claim, not that the united states does bad things.
Citation, please on the claim. I don’t need a list of everything the us government has done wrong, I want proof of the one thing that was claimed
In this case a better proxy might be McCarthyism but afaik that was applying political pressure directly to fuck people over, mask off – not putting people in mental hospitals.
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that America and capitalism and the CIA are all bad and this is all ultimately their fault
The first thing I thought was “damn so like future america” lol
Won’t distract me that’s for sure
Imperialism sucks, fuck USA, agreed!
Reminder that they are trying to make antisemitism a mental illness. Not racism, not homophobia, not transphobia. Just antisemitism
This is very common in authoritarian governments. They did the same kind of thing in Pinochet’s Chile, for example.
Nobody asked what happened to MLK and Malcolm X.
Better late than never.
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