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> The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it. I believe we started with a faulty premise, that perfectly natura
by Pimpus 8y ago
> The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it.
I believe we started with a faulty premise, that perfectly natural states of mind are an "illness". They may not be pleasant to behold but our brains have these mental states built in, for whatever reason. The mental health system wants to aggressively impose conformity of psychology across the population, which causes real mental illness. And the most evil thing we do is giving psychoactive drugs to kids.
- tremon 8y agoI believe we started with a faulty premise, that perfectly natural states of mind are an "illness" I tend to agree, but this is only partly true. It isn't because something is "natural" that it is therefore healthy and desirable. Some mental states, whether genetic or environmental, are very debilitating to the individual that has to live with them. So there is value in trying to "cure" certain mental afflictions. But yes, the field of psychology suffers from a fashion-based ideology that appears to want to mold every individual to the same narrow (and flawed) ideal. But in my experience, this fashion trend diminishes with expertise: most behavioral and forensic psychiatrists I've sproken explicitly eschew that type of prescriptivism.
- atlasair 8y agoWhat absolute bullshit. All congenital disease is natural. That doesn't mean patients should suffer. We treat children for mental illness, because we have comprehensive studies that shows it improves their life.