Vanessa’s Reviews > All in Your Head: Illness as Identity, Trauma as Fashion, and the Desire to be Disordered > Status Update
Vanessa
is 72% done
"Truth-seeking shouldn't be hostage to performative alignment, and there are all manner of ugly consequences related to this refusal to be brave in calling nonsense nonsense. But [...] nobody wants to be the one who has an army of lunatic adolescents on TikTok calling for their job." lmfaooooo. This book has been kinda weak so far but every once in awhile there's that deBoer no-bullshit
— Jun 25, 2026 08:27PM
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Vanessa
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"[Anti-psychiatry] turns suffering into spectacle, turns real damaged people and their real damaged lives into a chin-stroking slogan, and then it walks away."
repetitive so far but interesting
— Jun 24, 2026 12:06PM
repetitive so far but interesting
Vanessa
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"As is so often true in American life, a deeply influential intellectual and cultural movement seems offended by the notion that it may have been effective."
— Jun 23, 2026 10:59AM
Vanessa
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"With very few exceptions, every problem I describe in this book is a problem that developed because basically good people cared sincerely for the mentally ill and tried to do the right thing."
Accidental revelation on why I think I jive with deBoer's writing even when I don't agree with his conclusions. This "the good intentions led us somewhere weird" perspective is something I greatly agree with on many topics.
— Jun 22, 2026 10:39AM
Accidental revelation on why I think I jive with deBoer's writing even when I don't agree with his conclusions. This "the good intentions led us somewhere weird" perspective is something I greatly agree with on many topics.
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Found out about this via a revisit to his Gentrification of Disability essay, which is triple platinum in my house. Fuck yes. One rating is a 5 star and the other is a 1 star. Pot stirringgggggggg
— Jun 21, 2026 08:23PM