It is very important, to explain, feel, and understand, the differences, between diagnosed, and non-diagnosed mad people, and the ways that so-called sane people respond to these differences and uniqueness. In my experience, of most so-called ordinary people these days, they do not have prejudices about people with mental health problems - they are for some reason or another, a bit sceptical and mistrustful of psychiatrists - although in some ways, they just lack some vital and important information, about mental health problems.
The knowledge and information, about mental health problems, is not taught much in schools and society, because, although mental health problems are due to both biological and social factors, the social and environmental causes of mental health problems, would be in a way a criticism of the system, and some aspects of society, and the system and society would have to change, which for all kinds of reasons, they don’t want to progress or change, in that respect or area.
In context to the differences and uniqueness, of people with, or diagnosed with mental health problems, so-called sane society, is still in some ways very sadistic and cruel, towards people with mental health problems, and in terms of the treatment of people with mental health problems, psychologically with so-called sane people, we are still very much stuck in the past with this.
A big part of the problem, with the way that so-called sane people relate to diagnosed and non-diagnosed mad people, is that society likes to sometimes sweep us under the carpet, in psychiatric hospitals, along with marginalisation and ghettoisation, and in some ways completely separate themselves from us, because this is a way of covering up and hiding their own mental health problems, which for all kinds of reasons, they find hard to connect to, relate, and empathise with people with overt mental health problems.
There is also, some jealousy and ignorance, about the uniqueness of people with mental health problems, and the fact that, whilst people with mental health problems, are not all reformers or radicals, it is very true, that one way or another, that what in some ways drives and motivates people with mental health problems, is that they very much want to - and indeed do - transform, and transcend reality subjectively, and that this is a big part of the pain and dissatisfaction, with the current nature of society and/or the world, that people with mental health problems, in one way or another, need some social stability, but also want to create some objective social change.
Clearly, there are some people, with mental health problems, who cannot transform their experiences, and transcend reality, but they do try one way or another, and whilst so-called sane society, sees this as either weakness, or a unrealistic or inappropriate response, it is obviously, in many ways valid, and no different in a way, from what drives many people who have made major contributions, towards changing society for the better.
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We reject the usage of medicine as an instrument of social control, however, we cannot totally free ourselves from the madhouse of the therapeutic state. The whole world has become a hospital. Popular opinion and politicians find it too useful to control people in this manner. We also reject most violence, not on the grounds that violence is in itself always bad, and while we will note the the rights of homosexuals was changed after the stonewall riots, violence is mostly bad and usually causes more problems than it solves. Rather than being pacificists we advocate the right kind violence in the right kind of way. We can sow the seeds for this right kind of violence by advocating out and out insurrection against psychiatry.
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