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Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What I’ve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and Patient

Mad in America

On top of it, during the last few years, when I spent more time detained in hospital than at home, some of the nurses accused me of “not wanting to get better” and urged the doctors to label me with “personality disorder.” I was a nobody, and it took a move away from Scotland in 2009 to pull myself out of the quagmire.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

Confusingly, this is often accompanied by a desire to acquire an official diagnosis, even if the person does not see autism or ADHD as a ‘disorder’, because this is the gateway to the adjustments that are said to be necessary for a neurodivergent person to live in a neurotypical world. London: Pluto Press. Capitalist Realism.