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ck4829

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Wed May 25, 2022, 02:09 PM May 2022

Always remember this simple truth whenever the right-wing mentions "mental health"

At its heart, the right-wing ideology even with its veneer of "compassionate conservatism" and with its mask of right-wing evangelicalism, it still sees mental illness as a sign of the "other"; as a consequence of sin, as a personal failing, as a flaw, a defect.

The "cure", according to them, isn't talk therapy, isn't understanding, isn't working against binary thinking and other perceptive errors, isn't anti-psychotic medication, but you know what it is? More marginalization, more isolation, more exclusion, more stigma, more shame.
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Always remember this simple truth whenever the right-wing mentions "mental health" (Original Post) ck4829 May 2022 OP
I am compiling a list of "Every Accusation is a Confession" and usonian May 2022 #1

usonian

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1. I am compiling a list of "Every Accusation is a Confession" and
Wed May 25, 2022, 02:19 PM
May 2022

THE LIST KEEPS GETTING LONGER.

I'll need to expedite this effort. Sigh.

It's all rather "fundamental"

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