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Worth pointing out Robert Whitaker's book Anatomy of an Epidemic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_an_Epidemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_
by rjkennedy98 7y ago
Worth pointing out Robert Whitaker's book Anatomy of an Epidemic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_an_Epidemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_an_Epidemic. It goes in depth into the conflicting paradox of a dramatic increase in amount of mental health care and the paradoxical increase in the burden of mental health on society. It concludes that the latest generation of psychiatric drugs are hurting long term outcomes of psychiatric diseases.
- AstralStorm 7y agoPretty bad conclusion on insufficient data. What we see is medicalization of mental illness, which also includes sharp diagnostic tools and accurate data. In past someone like that could be called Bohemian or eccentric or moody or slow, work at physical tasks to which they were still suited; with exception made for truly insane (mostly schizophrenics, murderers and catatonics) got committed, and even the it was layperson or law's idea, not of medical profession. Remember how new even psychoanalysis is...