that mental illness only exists because the culture has specified what is normal, etc...
I don't believe this. I don't believe that mental illness is necessarily abnormal, to begin with. It's just a case of brain wires being crossed or chemical imbalances. Another curveball thrown at us from Nature. Neither normal or abnormal, it just is.
I think that many people are misdiagnosed because of the willingless to throw labels around to excuse behaviour, especially when there's nothing "wrong" with them at all, and thusly they're frequently overmedicated.
Too many people are all too willing to accept the explanation of something like depression, when they're actually just going through a bad streak in their lives. Too many parents would rather label their children as having ADHD, when in actuality it's more of a case of problematic parenting skills.
(of course, this isn't to say that there aren't cases of actual depression and actual ADHD and whathaveyou. I just think there are far less of them then people have come to believe.)
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Date: 2003-11-27 11:40 pm (UTC)I don't believe this. I don't believe that mental illness is necessarily abnormal, to begin with. It's just a case of brain wires being crossed or chemical imbalances. Another curveball thrown at us from Nature. Neither normal or abnormal, it just is.
I think that many people are misdiagnosed because of the willingless to throw labels around to excuse behaviour, especially when there's nothing "wrong" with them at all, and thusly they're frequently overmedicated.
Too many people are all too willing to accept the explanation of something like depression, when they're actually just going through a bad streak in their lives. Too many parents would rather label their children as having ADHD, when in actuality it's more of a case of problematic parenting skills.
(of course, this isn't to say that there aren't cases of actual depression and actual ADHD and whathaveyou. I just think there are far less of them then people have come to believe.)