The Reality of Racism in Psychiatry

She’s pointing out biases that she sees in her workplace to bring awareness to them and y’all are in the comments mad that she’s addressing what she sees as dangerous in the healthcare industry🤦🏾‍♀️

This naive broad lives in a fantasy world lol. Totally devoid of reason and logic.

Masters student in Clinical Psych here, about a semester away from graduating. We're taught to consider the patient's background and medical history when conducting mental health evals. The keyword here is 'consider' which I believe has been significantly overlooked and even ignored now in favor of racist behavior 😔

What’s interesting is when you bring racism up, just about everyone is like “yeah, for sure, listen to these stories.” And yet, when fat phobia is brought up (which is tied to racism) most of those same people are extremely dismissive, and sometimes outright fat phobic. Like, you’re proving the point. We must address all prejudices to get everyone better care. Same for transphobia. People love science and are happy to cherry-pick in an attempt to justify their bigotry.

Its everywhere !!!

Institutional racism is real.

Literally I was diagnosed with ODD as a child, which if you don't know, it's shorthand for "bad child disorder", that's how adults treat you after that diagnosis. As an adult, I was diagnosed with ADHD, confirming that in fact, I never had ODD. There's actually a huge debate in the psychology community right now as to whether ODD actually exists at all, and we've certainly found that IF it does exist, it's severely overdiagnosed, especially in children of color.

But it’s true in all parts of society. Systemic. So sad and poor kids.

Sort of on the same topic, there was a study done with white medical students. They were asked a bunch of questions about black people and their bodies. And overwhelmingly the white medical students had racist ideas about black bodies. They believed (very incorrectly) that black people had a higher tolerance for pain than white people. And other sorts of incorrect, ridiculous ideas about how black peoples were different from white peoples bodies.
And remember these were medical students! The study concluded that because white medical students had these racist incorrect ideals about black peoples bodies, the way they would treat them as patients once they, the white medical students, became doctors would lead to black people not getting good quality medical care. And current studies show black people don’t get good quality medical care when they are treated by white doctors.

This is why I avoid therapy all together. I wonder if Self therapy is best

Don’t take education to treat people as people, God will handle racists 😊