SPOT ON, it’s not a “mental health epidemic”, people are having normal difficult feelings!!! Difficult feelings are not a health condition!https://twitter.com/RandyNesse/status/1263176750684499969 …
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So yes I know people are suffering. ******I****** am suffering. I am the diagnosed “mentally ill” person who has been hospitalized multiple times and self harmed at age 11. I am not even close to denying human psychic pain. But I see it as human pain rather than illnesses
I understand why your critique can be useful but the kind of diagnoses the DSM and ICD enumerate are much broader than simply emotional responses to challenging situations. Ppl do have big bad changes in perception, mood, cognition and sometimes those kill ppl quickly.
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I’m sympathetic to yr critique in part bc I am not at all convinced gender dysphoria should be a diagnosis. But I’ve had clients in manic paranoid states, and it was a v good thing they had medical treatment to access.
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I agree wholeheartedly. I’ve stated in different threads relating to this god forsaken quote tweet of mine that I am not denying the existence of mental illnesses like bipolar or psychotic disorders. Like, at all. I just think emotions are commonly pathologized and I think it is
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