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3) We really don't know what mental illness is, outside of what makes people criminally violent.
by mjfl 7y ago
3) We really don't know what mental illness is, outside of what makes people criminally violent.
- ggm 7y agoHistorically, the (entirely reasonable, given lack of basic equity in property rights, body integrity, voting, law) discontent women displayed in western society which now expresses politically as feminism, was written down to hysteria, depression or other mental illness and thus it (mental illness in women) was used as a mechanism of control. I would like to think this ended last century, but I am suspicious it lingers on. The medical profession advances at a snails pace, and it would not surprise me to find out that senior medical staff routinely apply mysogynistic models to womens health. I know politicians do, the evidence of this is abundant (reproductive rights)
- wpietri 7y agoHonestly, we don't even know that it is, not in the same sense that we think of physical illness. There's a really good Philosophy Bites on how applying the conceptual model of physical illness to mental differences is problematic: https://philosophybites.com/2016/01/steven-hyman-on-categorising-mental-disorders.html https://philosophybites.com/2016/01/steven-hyman-on-categori... Just to be clear, I'm not saying that X is or is not real. It's more the point made by George Box: "All models are wrong; some models are useful." The traditional medical model has helped plenty of people when applied to mental issues. But it definitely made me think there are less wrong models still to come.
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