Character vs. Psychiatric Explanations

I like the bygone days, when people had character.
My granny for instance, she was a shrewd business woman with "character", some indefinable aspect to her that was unique. She was warm & hilarious with a very fiery & fierce side.
I imagine today, pscyhe docs have a "label" for that certain something that was part of granny. I don't know what they'd come up with, maybe hostile aggression or some other trash.
It all takes the beauty out of being human.
There's a telephone pole in my window view.
It's an attraction for people with pronounced character.
I've seen many talking to it. One guy, I know well, offers it a cigarette during the conversation. I don't know whether the pole joins him in the smoke break or not... but anybody who's giving enough to share smokes with a telephone pole is generous & considerate enough for me.
My Ma has always had the fondest regards for people who are challenged in some way. She (before retirement) would recruit with good pay, these people, that some may consider outcasts. Giving them a job, a title and pay gave them self esteem.
They had more self esteem then, than they do today, where now psych docs crush their spirits with unattractive labels.
Honestly, I think psych docs are a business and keep concocting new definitions to add to their billing files. The biggest breakthroughs in the industry of psychiatry hasn't been since Thorazine( once upon a time, served anyone with bad nerves) and Valium.The most recent additions are the Alzheimer drugs which seem to work well.
In some cultures, mental diagnosis is shrugged off and the individual (brought up with a strong back bone) continues his route, un-disrupted by shrinks.
Extremes in mood (bi-polar) can & are mimicked by anyone consuming stimulants alternating with depressants.
It should be a punishable crime, the professional disintegration of character, taking one's personality away.
I have nothing to gain or lose from my opinion, but I'd hate to lose my passionate disposal of such nonsense.
By no means can one's intellectual capacity be paralleled with their psychosis.A high number of schizophrenics are of genius IQ.(I'm not schizoid myself, but a voluntary advocate)
I saw my ex, being robbed of her beliefs by psych docs. She became victim of psychiatric abuse.
Slowly over time, she was convinced by psych docs that her nerves were so bad as to warrant massive doses of tranquilizers.She became a victim to her drug.A walking zombie, who only walked the passage her psych doc dictated. She believed what these professionals preached and was eventually consumed by it, in this process, she'd lost her identity as she'd known it.
The book of psychiatric "abnormality" is her new Bible.
I am venting.I think it's a cruel & crooked business.
I've been escorted down that hell by psychiatrists myself. Any guy into dresses has probably had to work as hard for his sanity as I have.I've gone to hell and back & everywhere in between to stand up for my rights as an individual.
And you know what, I'll share a smoke & chit chat with anyone who wants a discussion with that telephone pole, anytime.