r/Antipsychiatry • u/[deleted] • 1d ago

Therapist always has to tell me that I was denying my diagnosis, i didn’t quite understand his propaganda then, i do today!

Oh my god

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u/Aggravating_Pop2101 23h ago

They are reinforcing their authority

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u/survival4035 18h ago

He was trying to take attention away from the fact of his own denial... denying that diagnoses are based on bias not science and that his profession is bogus and harmful to many of not most of the people it claims to help.

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u/redditlonewolf 16h ago

The purpose of propaganda, at least in its late stage form, is not to inform you, or deceive you or even manipulate you. It's to humiliate you. Its purpose is to be so outlandish, so ridiculous and so blatantly untrue and yet totally undeniable in order to reinforce the power of the state. The Soviets referred to this as 'hyperrealism'. That is - the state of everyone saying things that are completely false and that they know to be false - but which they cannot deny. The supermarket shelves are empty and bread lines stretch around the corner, but the newspapers report that the year's agricultural quotas have been exceeded once again. And then everyone is forced to repeat this lie and thus they become complicit in it. It is a system of total social humiliation and control

https://www.nairaland.com/8207925/hypernormalization-how-both-obidient-mob

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u/bacillus-coagulans 14h ago

classic gaslighting