To think psychiatry is misogynistic?

She is not in any way a feminist. JT will claim to be whatever will benefit her at the time. Shes a pathological liar, I have receipts, and a grifter.

Some did in terms of being given medication. The issue with admissions is that there is nothing offered other than medication but that was what I needed so would have been welcomed by my family. As it is, I’ve had to self medicate with no supervision.
I was in a couple of years ago for five weeks and actually cried when I was sent home as I felt safe!

Our society and culture is built on misogyny, so of course psychiatry is affected by this.

But you have said previously that you have had numerous admissions and they didn’t help.

I do see what you’re saying and agree it’s complex. I agree she makes plenty of money from this and there is a target audience consuming her content. Personally, I would take my professional reputation over quick money any day, but can see why others might not.

This is the tattle thread (tattle.life/wiki/jessica-taylor) outlining Jessica Taylor’s lack of professional qualifications and questionable behaviour (going back years).

Ironically I only found the page because of Jessica Taylor herself repeatedly referencing tattle. Prior to reading it, I assumed she was a forensic psychologist.

@LifesabagofRevels

I think so yes. Your capacity to regulate emotions is much reduced because of trauma, therefore any hormonal fluctuations will hit you longer and harder. Perimeno is also notorious for bringing up deep seated feelings and rage that haven’t been dealt with during the course of a busy lifetime also.

If you can go into that transition more stable having processed any trauma it will be easier mentally. A lot of women don’t though because they’re busy.

I'll have to have a look 👍🏻

You seem nice.

I’m fine. I’m asking if you think that PMDD is also caused by trauma.

Agree with this and I say this as someone who has previously been an advocate of Jess. Go read her Tattle thread. She's a grifter and frankly dangerous.

After reading her Tattle thread it will also become apparent why she really, really wants Tattle closed. Spoiler: it's got nothing to do with bullying and a lot more to do with the fact that they have her number

@LifesabagofRevels

Are you okay? Or are you just a nob?

Have you ever gave birth? I did it three times. Natural births, zero intervention. Amazing, humbling but yes the experience was still traumatic. Particularly for my life at the time.

You can experience different emotions simultaneously. Do you have the capacity to understand that?

Is the luteal phase of menstruation traumatic too? Every month.

I think it's complicated.
It certainly was misogynistic at one stage
Freud and others did actually listen to women

I think more of a problem is that psychiatry rests on a positivist paradigm that assumes reality is objectifiable rather than a hermeneutic approach which might prioritise meaning and interpretation. You could argue that yes this is essentially patriarchal and misogynistic.

Whether psychiatrists themselves are a blind product of this is another question. Lots of them are trying to work on a difficult system.

I knew someone would have pointed this out before me 👍🏻

As for why Greek, this is what I found:

Greek (Clinical/Pathological): Ancient Greek is primarily used to describe disease, pathologies, symptoms, and medical procedures (e.g., cardi-ology, gastritis, pathogen).

Latin (Anatomical): Latin is largely used for anatomical structures, locations, and names of organs (e.g., cor for heart, pulmo for lung).

Is that all you've got?

My mum was sexually abused by a psychiatrist in a treatment centre back in the 70s. She didn't even report it as she felt (no doubt rightly) that nobody would take her, a psychiatric patient's word over an "eminent" Doctor's.

I'm not sure much has changed today.

There are currently 11 threads on Tattle Life. It's a lot!

The most recent ones are \mostly to do with Jessica trying to get the site pulled down. But the earlier ones detail things like the whole Sally Ann story, other women whose stories she's published without permission, what was going on behind the scenes in her company, questions about the multiple crowdfunders, details of her lies and misrepresentions etc etc

There's a wiki page among the Tattle Life threads on her, where someone has gone through, summarised it all and added links. That's probably the best way in, if anyone is interested.

What are ECTS?

The prefix "hystero" simply means womb or uterus. Hysterectomy therefore means removal of that body part.

The words hysterical and hysteria obviously have the same linguistic root, so yes, there's mysogynistic reasons behind them.

(Sorry if someone's already said that.)

I expect it'll catch up with her one day and she'll have to answer to the police, yes.

But, she definitely does do this. I can think of several occasions when she's done this to different people and I expect there are more I don't know about as it's a tactic she uses time and again.

It's surprising what you can get away with, with a lot of front and some charm, however. And if you don't always use the same police force for your complaint. They're not that joined up.

Also, she has contracts with the police - or used to at least, she used to provide training for them - and she's full of self-confidence, so I expect she's relatively convincing when she's making the complaints.

She tried to use the police to intimidate a vulnerable woman called Sally Ann into silence, for example. In a nutshell, Jessica published Sally Ann's own story of CSA in one of her books without permission. When Sally Ann made this public, what Jessica should have done was to apologise, say it was an honest mistake and promise to remove the story from further editions.

Instead, Jessica went on the attack, aiming to trash Sally Ann's reputation. She told anyone who would listen that Sally Ann was obsessed with her, was being innfluenced by her support service who "had it in for Jessica" (funny the amount of people who supposedly have it in for her, she's always the hero-victim in her stories!), that her story wasn't in the book, that Sally Ann was a stalker. Then - utterly shamelessly, the story changed, she said actually the story was in the book, it was a misunderstanding, but still, Sally Ann was a stalker.

It was pure DARVO - trying to cast Sally Ann as a crazy nutter rather than admit her own shortcomings - the exact methods she attacks abusive men for. But this woman has zero morals.

Jessica called the police on Sally Ann multiple times, even though she knew Sally Ann was incredibly vulnerable.

It ended up in court. Throughout, Jessica misrepresented what was happening, claimed that Sally Ann had been found guilty of stalking, when she absolutely wasn't. The reality is, when push came to shove, Sally Ann had a tonne of evidence supporting her case and good character while Jessica couldn't produce any and the case was dropped. But it was one of those things where the process is the punishment.

A lot of the detail of this is on Tattle Life.

Thankfully I'm no longer anywhere near Jessica's life and so I don't know, it's possible she has been pulled up for her habit of wasting police time and using them to intimidate people. I certainly hope so.

I'm not particularly keen on Tattle Life either, but as Jess aggressively goes after anyone who criticises her, it's one of the few places you can actually read what her critics are saying. Most of it isn't the usual Tattle Life posters - a lot of it is from people who know or knew her, finding a place to voice their concerns.

A typical Jessica tactic, for example, is calling the police and telling lies about her critics in an effort to intimidate them into silence.

Any claim she makes online should be taken with a massive pinch of salt, she lies constantly.