The myth of mental illness!!
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Basically if you do what you have done you will get what you've always if we start treating mental disease differently instead of prescribing pills whenever we can it will make a huge difference in society!
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Without context, the title of the book (the subject of this thread), could understandably be upsetting.
I learned recently that I have the lessor version of bipolar disorder and I’m comfortable in that truth and I am learning more about it and myself daily as a result of it. However, almost ironically I’ll say, in having learned this about myself, I took the time to objectively investigate this author at a Wikipedia level and in doing so, came to actually appreciate the positions laid out in the work and respect the cultural and periodic voice of the author when he wrote the book (1960’s, Hungarian born).
The author is a libertarian medical doctor (psychiatrist). In a very summarized way, he postulates that psychological labels are a method of controlling and stigmatizing those with neurological or psychological abnormalities. We are learning more now than ever about how various abnormalities exist in the physical sense, meaning neurological or mental or hormonal differences from the mean population, and as such new information in which to treat and supplement them, which is information that simply was not at the author’s disposal at the time of writing. It’s worth a read and puts a lot of perspective into being this way and how those treating these conditions can approach them.
Thanks, Eli.
I learned recently that I have the lessor version of bipolar disorder and I’m comfortable in that truth and I am learning more about it and myself daily as a result of it. However, almost ironically I’ll say, in having learned this about myself, I took the time to objectively investigate this author at a Wikipedia level and in doing so, came to actually appreciate the positions laid out in the work and respect the cultural and periodic voice of the author when he wrote the book (1960’s, Hungarian born).
The author is a libertarian medical doctor (psychiatrist). In a very summarized way, he postulates that psychological labels are a method of controlling and stigmatizing those with neurological or psychological abnormalities. We are learning more now than ever about how various abnormalities exist in the physical sense, meaning neurological or mental or hormonal differences from the mean population, and as such new information in which to treat and supplement them, which is information that simply was not at the author’s disposal at the time of writing. It’s worth a read and puts a lot of perspective into being this way and how those treating these conditions can approach them.
Thanks, Eli.
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For the longest time, we didn’t know any better. Psychedelics are making such a huge impact in certain populations because they so closely mimic serotonin and attach to and influence various neurological receptors to re-wire neural pathways (neuroplasticity). This allows permanent adjustments in both conscious and subconscious functions resulting in massively improved, statistically significant results. Mental health is going to improve exponentially in the next generation.