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15 new mental illnesses in the DMV-5

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Magical Realist Offline
Look. I'm all for the proper diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. But according to recent stats, about half of all Americans has had or will have a mental disorder at some time in their life. At present according to the DMV-5 there are 297 mental disorders. I wonder about that. I wonder about the influence of Big Pharma on the definition of new disorders. I wonder about the extent to which what is "medicatable" comes to decide what shall be considered a disorder. And I wonder about the mentality of passive victimization that underlies a basically materialistic etiology of human behavior. In a world increasingly driving us towards bodily alienation and mental abstraction, in which the maddening obsession to be hyper informed seems to underlie all we do, is it any wonder that the 4 million year old human psyche is rapidly mutating into so many types and subtypes. Is the problem in US, or in the society we live in?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/15-new-...2013-05-22
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stryder Offline
(Dec 21, 2014 04:35 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: Look. I'm all for the proper diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. But according to recent stats, about half of all Americans has had or will have a mental disorder at some time in their life. At present according to the DMV-5 there are 297 mental disorders. I wonder about that. I wonder about the influence of Big Pharma on the definition of new disorders. I wonder about the extent to which what is "medicatable" comes to decide what shall be considered a disorder. And I wonder about the mentality of passive victimization that underlies a basically materialistic etiology of human behavior. In a world increasingly driving us towards bodily alienation and mental abstraction, in which the maddening obsession to be hyper informed seems to underlie all we do, is it any wonder that the 4 million year old human psyche is rapidly mutating into so many types and subtypes. Is the problem in US, or in the society we live in?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/15-new-...2013-05-22

It's not just the US.  There is constant addition to the list of already existent terminology, the reason for those terms is because of the myriad of different problems and disorders that can find themselves apart of every persons life.  Just using one specific umbrella term (e.g. Schizophrenia) is not particular acceptable as for instance one termed Schizophrenic might be a danger to people due to a delusion, where another just finds it hard to do everyday activities.  They are two completely distinct different types of problem that each individual needs to address, and being termed by just that one term leads to all sorts of stigma which can lead on to persons classed as that suffering from any number of anxiety related issues.  ("What does the world think I'm capable of?" is likely the sort of question that someone suffering from such stigma would ask, it's not a question they would have otherwise ever arisen to by any other means, let alone what injustices they might have felt done to them for the term and how to respond to that question.)

I do question however how the medical "Profession" current does turn to using drugs to "simplify" the problems as opposed to actually treating them.  The way I see it is a bit like this:

You go to a doctor and you complain about the fact that you've just amputated your hand, The doctor takes a look, he says "We can fix that for you" and promptly stamps on one of your big toes.  The problem with your hand still exists, the "Cure" in this metaphor is just a distraction from the actual ailment.  There is then of course the argument about "Big Pharma" (The large corporations invested in creating a pill popping society)  In the analogy, they would be the company making shoes with the toe cut out so the doctor can stamp on your toe when you need "Medication".)

In essence the human brain in all is splendour is known to create a vast repository of chemicals.  What the doctors and the pharma companies attempt to do is replicate the chemicals that are already existent within the brain, perhaps to increase the yield to that of "normal" levels (which itself could be dangerous if a persons physiology is adapted to a lesser or greater extent).  It doesn't fix the problem since it could be down to Nature or Nuture (it could be Genetics, it could be the way a person lives in their day to day life). 

I'd suggest the only way a person can deal with such elements is Psychology and a change to peoples perspectives of what disorders a person might suffer.  After all it's about training a person to be able to understand how to deal with what afflicts them (and others that otherwise observe them as some sort of curiosity or person to victimise)  After all the human brain has the capacity for elasticity when dealing with trauma, it can rewire to deal with "Learning work arounds" so it's really about learning how to cope so that no drugs are necessary.

(I'm sure not every case this will work, but in a majority it makes more sense to "think your way out" rather than be placed in a perpetually catatonic state at the hands of doctors and Big Pharma. Incidentally anyone that's induced into that state will find it very hard to recover from the damage done by the pharmaceuticals.)


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