14 November 2007

Diagnonsense

Re: Mental health and employment in The Guardian today.

Reminding people of the reality that mental illness does not and cannot exist might serve to focus more on whether it was work situations that led to the problems in living revealed here. Conditions and diagno(nsen)ses such "schizophrenia", "OCD", "ADHD", "manic depression" - do not actually exist as distinct illnesses.

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Also the common incidence of so-called "ADHD" must be related to the over-stimulation of kids in a multi-media society.....