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Uploaded by mindyourmind on Jan 26, 2007
Against the stigma of mental illness.
What if I told you?....
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@Ragnarok187 Thanks for the info :)
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@BuonaSera95 The experiences are real, I'm not saying they aren't, but I am saying it's not an illness or disease. The DSM symptoms mostly describe differences in behaviour, emotion, or personality, none of which can be a disease. They may also be simple differences in perception or how we interact with reality, or may be a psyche immune system response to damage/trauma.
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@Ragnarok187 What do you call "mental illness" then ?
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@Ragnarok187 no no. you got my point wrong. i didn't even have the disorder when i was a kid and i know thats notwhy i don't fit in (though now it makes it hard) all i'm saying is that society contrebutes to low self confidence which might be a factor of developing some type of disorder. nothing happend i just didn't fit in. i wasn't interested in playing with ther kids. .in my therapy there wasn't enough work done on figuring out why i actually felt those things so i agree with you there
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@Sillilesshells I'm not glad you're listening to your psychiatrist at all. They want to use labels and drugs to control people. They label behaviours and emotions as symptoms of a physical 'mental disease'. No such thing exists. If you don't fit in that's not cause you have a 'disorder'. Why weren't you very assertive as a kid? What happened? What did you experience? The events we go through shape who we are. Psychiatry labels and drugs the symptoms yet they completely ignore the real cause.
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@Ragnarok187 yes, i wasn't a very asertive child growing up and topics like beuaty and i donno race issues really got to me over the years, i never fitted in to any group of friends and i didn't understand why and i think thats part of the eason i now have the "bahavioural disorder" generalised anxiety disorder and now i swear i have like 1% confidence You'll be gald to know it was my psychaiatrist who told me it was a behavioural disorder.
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@Sillilesshells Yep you heard right. The DSM calls them behavioural disorders. Psychiatry calls them illnesses or diseases. They aren't. The psyche is a little more complex than the 'experts' say it, and a little simpler. There aren't 374 categorically different 'illnesses'.
Different events or experiences people face can have different effects on the psyche. Society is pretty skrewed up so is there any wonder more people have bad experiences which results in these psyche imbalances?
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@Ragnarok187 they're behavioural disorders i've heard..that right?
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@moonspider7 Agreed completely. It's not the 'mentally ill' that are ill. It's society. Wars, famine, violence, fear. Society is diseased and so few see that. They all walk around thinking everything is perfectly wonderful, then label the 'mentally ill' as being defective or diseased. Anyone that questions the problems that plague society are called 'crazy'. The people that accept the lies and corruption that plague Mankind are called 'normal'. Our society is completely backwards and upsidedown
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Society makes people sick... plain and simple.
All these problems are simply a byproduct of material excess, elitist idol culture and the lack of an alternative.
Drugs ( pharmaceuticals ) are not the answer, readjustment is not the answer. These people will not function within society, but our answer is "put them on drugs, monitor their thoughts and actions, and tell them how "normal" people live their lives "
It makes me feel sick.
Amarkcalledme 1 year ago 14
@Ragnarok187
Beautiful. It's so difficult to make that point isn't it? People think you're criticising the sufferer. I also studied some Psychology at Uni, but have always been interested in people's thoughts/emotions so its been a lifelong study (40+ years). The 'expert' that truly made sense to me in all those years was R.D. Laing because he came to the conclusion that it is society that is sick. Not such a radical idea if you walk around with your eyes open! Society denies we have feelings.
moonspider7 10 months ago 2