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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
