Psychology Test - Are you Troubled? The Truth about Mental Disorders and What is Normal?

Psychology Test - Are you Troubled? The Truth about Mental Disorders and What is Normal?

Dr. Breeding, Ph.D. psychologist discusses the concept of normal, this time examining the fact that we seek to compare ourselves to others and sometimes to ourselves. For example, we are too happy, too sad, too busy, not busy enough, etc. Often modern medicine will direct us to drugs such as anti-depressants if we are not happy enough, but Dr. Breeding poses the argument that without a "normal" state to compare to, there is nothing wrong with us at all.

Mental health is defined in terms of normal by psychology and psychiatry. If you don't fit into the box, you might be labeled with mental illness. Dr. Breeding reminds us in this video that the mental disorders listed in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical manual of Mental Disorders) are diagnosed subjectively, based solely on emotions and behaviors, NOT with a biological test.

Disorders such as bipolar, manic depression, ADHD, ADD, OCD, social anxiety disorder, etc. are voted into existence by the American Psychiatric Association. The underlying assumption of biological psychiatry is that mental illness is biologically based despite the fact that no solid science has been able to identify biological markers for mental illnesses.

If we think in terms of troubled or troubling behavior rather than normal/abnormal behavior, we can address what's troubling us without the use of drugs and without accepting that we have a biological disposition to feeling that way. The challenges of life can be extremely difficult and confronting those challenges often leads us to a troubled state, but does not give us a biological or mental disease.

Other videos:
Psychology Test - Are you Normal?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb5F58OFTis

The Truth about Mental Disorders- Psychology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-wMP2Q0Ifs

The Truth about ADHD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia6OGEj6wW0


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[FirstInstruMentalist]

@bananasofcourse yes

[MrROTD]

@DJpopel I tend to agree, I have a lot a lot of rage for the hypocracy I see every day. No-one is "normal" we all can feel it deep down that this world is madness and we are all to blame. They call me a pessimist but really I'm a realist. I don't have hope for such a greedy and calous race such as ours. Also they say Im too sensitive, of course I'm sensitive, I have senses I use them.

[DJpopel]

Its so goddamn simple it makes me angry. We are all fucked up in the head because SOCIETY IS INHERENTLY FUCKED UP and downright batshit INsane. Our society preaches "morality" and yet it commits genocide every fucking day. We are a part of this and we feel it deep down. The normal human reaction to the bullshit around us should either be DEPRESSION or RAGE.

"I dont trust ANYBODY whos not angry"

anyhoo, 2012 is gonna be interesting. You "normals" are slowly waking up to reality...

[bananasofcourse]

Is masturbation a sin?

[ModernDayProphets]

You are a brilliant man.

[smallpotatoes989]

I know I am not normal, but who wants to be normal. it is boring.

[losyrami]

So clear Thank you :)

[nintram]

Nice. Now: How does one effectively defend themself against psychiatry?

[Solomon1330]

Very good

[Eliminator293]

@catgumart Why do you expect people to have understanding? We all have a conscience (superego), and we are all free to choose our morals. We all often fail in life, and this often means that we don't have understanding and empathy. The ethos of victimization is that we never accept our own failings, and we project our own guilt onto other people. This is often the root of mental illness. If we don't accept our own failings, then we don't learn from our mistakes!