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The widespread online practice of casually diagnosing others with mental disorders—especially dissidents, anti-capitalists, religious believers, and spiritual people—as a way to dismiss, pathologize, and silence them. Terms like "schizophrenic," "delusional," "narcissistic," "needs therapy," or "needs a psychiatrist" are thrown around by people with no clinical training, often in the same breath as "conspiracy theorist" or "pseudoscience." Sluggish psychiatry uses the authority of mental health to label any worldview outside the speaker's own as sick, effectively transforming psychiatric language into a weapon of ideological enforcement. It trivializes real mental illness while bullying those with different beliefs.
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