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Let’s start holding psychiatry to account and take some power back over how we choose to self-define.

We are convinced that finding ourselves, rebuilding relationships and communities, and recovering spaces may be a first step in opening a horizon in which to create places free from the individualistic dynamics of exploitation and mercification.

Western medicine targets the specific at the expense of the whole, whilst holistic medicine looks at the whole. For the most part, the two traditions do not work together. While Western medicine is relatively new at around 100 years old, plant or holistic medicine date back thousands of years.

Whether it is a diagnosis of BPD, or any other diagnosis, there is the potential for significant harm to result when the subjective experience of any individual is replaced by an objectively derived diagnostic category.

During my extensive reading about schizophrenia and homosexuality, I looked for examples of men whose disease was like mine; in other words, people whose schizophrenia was caused by the repression of their homosexuality.