Discrimination akin to violent racism... Have you experienced that and had it denied? I have. I advise all responsible persons to please read definitions first before arguing with me over this one. It is not okay to deny me work, or forums to speak, because I'm a psychiatric survivor. It is not okay that the psychiatric regime still exists to bully, label, shut-up, marginalise and torture people. Argue that your sponsors won't allow psychiatric survivors and think about how little you stand for human-rights, and how much you support injustice.
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It is discrimination to say that 'traditionally this job is given to a person with no lived-experience of being diagnosed by psychiatrists.' It is discrimination to say that the clinicians fold their arms at people with lived-experience and don't listen, as an excuse for the job not being given to people with lived experience.

It is discrimination to call people under the psychiatric regime 'child-like.' It is violent discrimination to call the CAT team, when a person has expressly said that psychiatric interventions are harm not help and especially when that person is not causing harm to themselves or anyone else.

It is discrimination to call a psychiatric survivor a 'person with a mental illness' or as having 'mental health issues'.

The psychiatric regime is a bully, it allows for a culture of bullies. It enables bullying psychologists and psychiatrists to be the spokespersons that get paid for doing talks about bullying and discrimination and ‘ethics’. This is NOT okay. Especially when more often than not, they are perpetrators of such abuse.

It is not okay to token psychiatric survivors in a talk that is about their experience, and tell them that they cannot freely talk about the abuses of the mental health system.

I am told I am not allowed to speak the truth, that what I say is ‘antipsychiatry’, as if speaking about those things done to me, that are akin to violent racism, are the problem. As if I can even be ‘antipsychiatry’ when this was a movement run by clinicians who criticised their colleagues. I do not want my voice crushed by any kind of clinician, even one that is ‘antipsychiatry’. If people don’t allow me to speak they are unjust.

This society is so ridiculous. I can’t believe people allow those white-coats to hold up their DSM bible and then submit to their authority, when they haven’t even suffered the torture of that cruel regime to be so terrified of them. I can’t believe that writing and arts grants are given to clinicians who decide to ‘try art’ and have made a career out of writing grants. I can’t believe even in community based organisations, people are still worried about their piddly little sponsorship from white-coats, enough to deny psychiatric survivors a platform to speak.

I can’t believe there can be organisations that call themselves ‘peer support’, that discriminate against the people they’re meant to be enabling and empowering.

‘From a consumerist stand point taking no account of what mental health service users want and think, ignores the basic tenets of market research and makes for inefficiency. It leave products, which are now taken to include public services, and their providers, uninformed by customer preferences.’ Thereby increasing risk of ‘making provision that is unwanted, inappropriate and doesn’t work.’ (Madness Contested, Steven Coles et al, 2013)Madness Contested: Power and Practice

It is, however, okay for a peer support organisation to say they need people with lived-experience. Because, lived-experience, is not only experience essential to the job, it is an additional qualification alongside the other practices, training certificates, degrees and diplomas that a psychiatric survivor has to have, in our society, to even be considered as viable for a job and prove they are not still merely subject matter for the psychiatric regime.