Yes! I think to an extent this is self-deserved in the academic mental health sphere. We let psychiatry pretend like mental health issues are medical, biological conditions, like leukemia, or MS.

And we had decades of this. Of psychiatrists waiting for that one proof of a certain biological marker that would be tied to schizophrenia or something. But it never came.

I think to an extent general public is right on this. In a truly psychodynamic fashion they are taking revenge on the abusive father - which mainstream psychiatry has been because of its hubris and lack of modesty. And psychology, at least in the US, is like a codependent mother - doing precisely nothing to calm down the “know it all” abusive dad.

It kinda started with the neurodivergent movement as it relates to autism. Like people subconsciously know that there is something wrong with the stigmatising way psychiatry claims this or that of them: you can’t read or write because of dyslexia - despite not a concrete biological or neurological defect can be found, you are defective, same with adhd, or autism. And people rebelled. (Of course I’m not in bulk saying that these things don’t exist, just that they’ve been pushed into people’s faces as certainties, often with pharmaceutical companies best interest, en masse)

But as always with people rebelling - they took it too far. And now the same noble concept of neurodivergence as a healthy scepticism of a faulty paradigm behind a pseudo-science of bio-pharmacological psychiatry is getting abused, and real monsters found out you can dismiss any mental health concerns with a wave of your hand.

And they are right to an extent! Our culture failed to address the moral and normative aspects of mental divergence and mental health. We have literally no answers for people asking why. So they sometimes rightly point out, and sometimes abuse this hypocrisy for their own gain.

I think it’s our job as therapists and psychologists to correct that course.