Stigma Mental Health - Overcoming Stigma

Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D. Psychologist, talks about mental health stigma.

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[midnightgardner]

I'm still trying to figure out Dr. Breedings message. "Mental illness is a metaphor that's made up"? He must have never dealt with any patients with severe problems. And if he doesn't believe mental illness exists, than why is he practicing psychology? Who is he treating? Does he deny that people have mental problems, that if we don't speak the name the disorder doesn't exist? Certainly some people take a diagnosis too far and allow it to define them, but why not speak against that?

[psychetruth]

Dr. Breeding believes that people have psychological problems and problem in living.

What he disagrees with is the assumption that the problems are always caused by brain defects or genetic defects.

He also disagrees with the idea that a person can't fully recovery from a "mental disorder".

[markae0]

Forced psychiatry still is necessary in the world , because along with the innocent "mentally ill" , there is the criminal evil person that society needs locked up, yet hasn't commited a crime to warrent incarceration. Specifically the mentally ill pedophile. To eliminate forced psychiatry for innocent people, there has to be a method to jail the criminal/evil person.

[psychetruth]

You just engaged on a slippery slope there. You are recommending incarceration without having committed a crime and without benefit of a trail by one's peers. Who becomes the thought police? Who is qualified to judge a man before he has committed the crime? What recourse does a person have if he accused of mental illness?  What's to stop psychiatry from being used a political tool if they can lock people up w/out having committed a crime?

[markae0]

"without benefit of a trial" That was a misunderstanding. I assumed the sex offender/pedophile has been to court and convicted. Some sex offenders are likely to continue on their criminal activities. These are the criminals that the law must change for. Change as in giving longer sentences, so that a psychiatrist doesn't have to be used to keep them from harming the public/society.

[psychetruth]

I have no problem with the basis of the legal system. Yes, if someone commits a crime, they should go to prison.

[Seabrook78in]

"You cannot have a bland feeling about me.

Either I'm a showboating son of a &it$# or

I'm the darling that everyone picks on.

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When

I was winning they called me eccentric." -Al Mcguire

[Chipmunkapublishing]

Yes. Mental health is the biggest civil rights momvement of all time and its happening now thanks to you tube, psychetruth, google, John Breeding, Chipmunkapublishing.

[Hadesofthe07]

@midnightgardner It's a metaphor, It's a lie. It's a label. It's catagorizing huge swathes of human behavior together. Illness means not well. The question is why? Not: what pharmasuiticals and subsidies would best manage the "illness"? don't look for a problem, look for a remedy, fight identity spoilers and thought suppression.

[nir8vana]

It seems that you don't get it. He doesn't deny their issues, he denies the mind-fuck-society who has made them sick in the first place. Psychology and psychiatry are different things, first one is good, last one is just nazi-mindfucking. Basically psychiatry prevents people from getting better, it just numbs them or kills them (I mean us).

[chloesprite]

*don't trust a therapist that is not a huminst ie one who fundamentally believes that each person is entirely unique and should be treated with such rights and ability for self discovery without using chemicals cept only where necessary.

[chloesprite]

there's definately a huge conspiracy in pharmacutics/psychiatry/psycho­logy. beginning with the belief in a need for normalization. prozoc and add curbing drugs waaay over perscribed. certainly a person goes in search of guidances and should be helped, given tools to become independent but many doctors and such continuely foster dependences on outside influences. i believe much of it to be in paralel functioning with all institutional attempts.never trust a therapist that is a humanist.....

[nivto2]

Than what are people supposed to do when they scare themselves (hearing voices, disasociating from reality and such)?

Not the relationships between the person and the people around them. When they cannot function and are essentially in their own hell.

Please do not take offense...

[lissiness]

I think yr advice is helpful. I've been trying very hard to work on myself my entire life, & have been actively seeking help & doing yoga and meditation & disciplining my diet.

Diagnosis helps tho. I don't like labels either. The label of ADD at least is the arrow leading to where we sharing it should converge to help each other out. Everything is labeled. ADD needs ADD because it's commonly experienced. call it anything, but we need to be able to state our experience.