“I appreciate the wealth of info this podcast has to offer, especially since they discuss a lot of lesser known cults around the world, but I just desperately wish they would stop armchair diagnosing the leaders of the cults the cover. It is completely unnecessary for them to attempt to cover the psychology of cult leaders in the way that they do currently and they absolutely are contributing to the stigma against certain mental illnesses when they do this, especially since these people are not professionals who are qualified to do this in the first place. Sometimes cult leaders act the way they do because they are selfish jerks, not because of a speculated mental illness, and it would be incredibly beneficial to cult survivors and people at risk of being taken advantage of by cults if they would actually recognize and say this.
So yeah, this podcast would be perfect if the hosts and producers would stop engaging in ableism by armchair diagnosing cult leaders with mental illnesses that are already extremely stigmatized. The hosts and producers need to seriously reevaluate how they cover the psychological side of this topic if they want to stop contributing to the ableism that people with highly stigmatized mental illnesses already have to deal with in our society.”
Gemfemme via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/21/21