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i keep trying to write about this and it keeps not quite being fully cooked, but just like... something wild happens when you use an ontology that was designed for the needs of a *bureaucracy* in order to *understand and explain yourself to yourself and others*
a couple people told me to check out thomas szasz and i like the cut of this guy's jib "He maintained that, by calling people diseased, psychiatry attempts to deny them responsibility as moral agents in order to better control them." https://t.co/dGVobs6B7s https://t.co/WZMmYjTWSt
thomas szasz youtube video, h/t @reasonisfun https://t.co/fgdHjeGD6K
@QiaochuYuan as some commenters have said, there *are* exceptions to this. if bodies are made up of chemical patterns, those patterns can break. THAT SAID I would wager that >95% of people with “mental illnesses” today don’t fall into that, & bucketing them the same is a mass tragedy.
@QiaochuYuan cite: brain tumors, and brain surgery, can change almost anything - personality, outlook, mobility... I suspect people who looked at this all day wrote the DSM, hence their massive overmedicalization. I’m wondering, what is the appropriate middle path? https://t.co/2Ev878dp0b
@QiaochuYuan "disorganized" attachment is probably one of the best named things in this general cluster wonder if most things called "mental illnesses" might be better called "disorganized X" 🤔 ADHD = "disorganized attention" OCD = "disorganized completion" NPD = "disorganized self-esteem"
@Malcolm_Ocean @QiaochuYuan I am reading Scattered Minds and Dr Gabor Maté makes this reframe from the third definition to the first explicit https://t.co/XKaFPXyL3c
