I’ve got a lot to say and have to leave now but these are some quick notes I hope will point you in the right direction. Issues with psychiatry:

• The pathologisation of natural human variation and the medicalisation of wellbeing

Instead of celebrating difference and truly making room for it in our societies and communities (a mutual aid approach), psychology places the burden of wellbeing on the individual, telling them that their brains are imbalanced or whatever and that the problem is fixed with drugs

• The pathologisation of rebellion

Throughout history and until now, notable examples from today being “Conduct Disorder” and from the past drapetomania
Edit: as noted, Oppositional Defiant Disorder is an even better example than Conduct Disorder

• The pathologisation of normal responses to terrible societal conditions

People are sad and anxious because life is shit. These are systemic issues that pshychiatry as a fundamentally reformist project has no relation to. Instead of bringing us to be people who seek out truly better lives, it defines betterness primarily in terms of what drugs can potentially do for us

• Framing health in terms of ability to participate in the economy

Most of the DSM includes in its categories that “cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.” In practice what this amounts to is whether a person can go do their job or their learning.

This doesn’t mean that it’s not useful for some people in some cases to use psychiatric drugs. All of us do what we can to survive in a shit world. The stickied post in the forum touches on more interesting things to engage.

EDIT: I was hoping to come back here and add more useful stuff but I'm out of energy to be thorough about it.

If you're looking for heavier theory, Foucault's got a book called Madness and Civilization, and D&G have Anti-Oedipus.

The Icarus project is something worth looking into as an anarchist mental health praxis.

There's lots of other stuff but there's no use in me listing it when you can just look at the wikipedia page for anti-psychiatry.

To add,

There is no such thing as mental illness. It is merely a convenient label for grouping and isolating cases where identification has not occurred properly. Those whom Power can neither govern nor kill, it taxes with madness. The category includes extremists and megalomaniacs of the role, as well as those who deride roles or refuse them. It is only the isolation of such individuals that marks them, however. Let a General identify with France, with the support of millions of voters, and an opposition immediately springs up which seriously seeks to rival him in his lunacy. Horbiger's attempt to invent a Nazi physics met with a similar kind of success. General Walker was taken seriously when he drew a distinction between superior, white, divine and capitalist man on the one hand, and black, demoniacal, communist man on the other. Franco would meditate devoutly and beg God for guidance in oppressing Spain. Everywhere in the world are leaders whose cold frenzy lends substance to the thesis that man is a machine for ruling. True madness is a function not of isolation but of identification. The role is the self-caricature which we carry about with us everywhere, and which brings us everywhere face to face with an absence. An absence, though, which is structured, dressed up, prettified. The roles of paranoiac, schizophrenic or psychopath do not carry the seal of social usefulness; in other words, they are not distributed under the label of power, as are the roles of cop, boss, or military officer. But they do have a utility in specified places - in asylums and prisons. Such places are museums of a sort, serving the double purpose, from Power's point of view, of confining dangerous rivals while at the same time supplying the spectacle with needed negative stereotypes. For bad examples and their exemplary punishment add spice to the spectacle and protect it. If identification were maximised through increased isolation, the ultimate falseness of the distinction between mental and social alienation would soon become clear.

• Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life

Not a big fan of psychiatry myself. I do think it's absolute straight edge bullshit to be anti psychiatric drugs. I doubt how helpful they can be but if they make life better for you more power to you.

So I think my and many others anti psychiatry is totally accepting of psychiatric medicine.