http://www.bbc.co.uk/headroom/newsandevents/programmes/horizon_hmay.shtml
How mad are you?
Madness, mental illness, OCD, schizophrenia, depression, manic depression, social anxiety disorder [That's a new one - used to be called shyness!] eating disorders, ADHD....
None of these things exist.
This is obvious.
It's obvious that none of these exist as specific diseases or real diagnonsenses or conditions.
There is only behaviour.
You may say isn't someone who is depressed suffering from the condition of being depressed?
Yes but to call it a "condition" implies an illness and implies it has an independent existence of some kind when in reality it is a behaviour......
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I was so pleased that many of the assessments of the "mental health professionals" in this programme turned out to be totally wrong. Well, not wrong but meaningless.
They couldn't say which ones had "mental illnesses" because none of them does and no one does.
But it's not necessarily their fault. They are too victims of pseudo-science and oppressed by the system that they are part of.
The conclusions are obvious as pointed out in an excellent Big Issue article.
Hopefully such people can do what they surely want to do: help people.
How mad are you?
Madness, mental illness, OCD, schizophrenia, depression, manic depression, social anxiety disorder [That's a new one - used to be called shyness!] eating disorders, ADHD....
None of these things exist.
This is obvious.
It's obvious that none of these exist as specific diseases or real diagnonsenses or conditions.
There is only behaviour.
You may say isn't someone who is depressed suffering from the condition of being depressed?
Yes but to call it a "condition" implies an illness and implies it has an independent existence of some kind when in reality it is a behaviour......
----------
I was so pleased that many of the assessments of the "mental health professionals" in this programme turned out to be totally wrong. Well, not wrong but meaningless.
They couldn't say which ones had "mental illnesses" because none of them does and no one does.
But it's not necessarily their fault. They are too victims of pseudo-science and oppressed by the system that they are part of.
The conclusions are obvious as pointed out in an excellent Big Issue article.
Hopefully such people can do what they surely want to do: help people.