‘End mental health stigma’ is an oxymoron

What does that phrase even mean?

People say and post ‘end mental health stigma’ because they don’t realise or understand that stigma is the name of the game - stigma is the point, stigma is the process, stigma is the power, stigma is the labelling, stigma is the centre of mental health and psychiatry. Without stigma, there are no psychiatric labels. They can’t exist.

You can only be diagnosed with a mental disorder if someone in power believes you differ sufficiently from ‘normal people’, and are therefore ‘mentally disordered’ - the entire thing is stigma and stigmatising.

Therefore, if you remove all stigma, you dismantle the entire system of mental health and the concept of psychiatry too.

Most people don’t understand that.

They think there is a way to diagnose, medicate, section, tranquillise, and imprison people - but just ‘end the stigma’, but that is not possible.

The only way to ‘end mental health stigma’ is to realise that there is no such thing as 500 mental disorders that you can be locked up for, and that humans have a wide range of thousands of responses and coping mechanisms instead.

‘End mental health stigma’ is therefore an oxymoron, and the campaigns do nothing other than bolster psychiatry and normalise labelling and stigma - so more and more people see themselves as mentally ill, ultimately serving multi-billion dollar corporations who need as many people as possible to believe they are sick in the mind, so they take (buy) their medication (products).

If we ever successfully end stigma in human responses and behaviours, we will end psychiatry.