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Date of upload: Apr 9, 2024 ^^
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I'm a therapist and find the pathologising of perfectly normal child developmental stages and the perfectly normal ups & downs of the human condition and its proliferation as dangerous, harmful, negligent and irresponsible.
Labels are merely meant as general pigeonholes, which may guide treatment. It can help to give a name and boundaries to symptoms, so some sense of control can be felt but these labels should be malleable and not set in concrete.
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I've read James Davies' books 'Cracked' and 'Sedated' which are very good books. I'm not a psychiatrist, I don't have a degree or even A levels, but I could see years ago that more and more people had 'mental health problems' because normal human emotions were being pathologised. Psychiatry and psychology are quackery.
Jon Ronson in The Psychopath Test talks about the inventing of 'mental conditions'.
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So true about the pathologizing of normal human states of being. When my mum died, she and my dad had been married for 65 years. He went into a deep depression and stopped taking his medicine in hopes of dying and joining my mum. He did end up having a small stroke and was admitted to hospital. The doctor ādiagnosedā him with depression and fast-talked Dad into going on anti-depression medication. My Dad was usually vehemently opposed to taking pills so I wondered how this prescription had been foisted on him. On challenging the doctor he seemed stunned that we wouldnāt go along with this. My argument? āHe has just lost his partner of 65 years! What he needs is COUNSELLING not medication! You canāt just give him a happy pill for deep grief!ā The doctor refused to take away the diagnosis and prescription which I found appalling since it is well-known that elders in care are often over-medicated. Best I could get was an agreement to review Dadās meds in a year.
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20 years ago we were shuttle through many orgs as my 3 year old was not talking yet. They talked about a diagnosis of mild Asperger's syndrome but settled on apraxia and he went into speech therapy. We took part in every intervention available that they offered including 2 years of preschool and Early Childhood Intervention. We enrolled him in French Immersion and between all the kids learning new sounds and the speech therapy he was just fine.
When I think of what could have happened today in those official prestigious halls of professionals it scares the hell out of me. Would we have had the courage to buck against any of this crap being pushed? Would we have even seen it as young parents?
In all of this I did come to realize the spectrum includes all of us but most of us just need to be left alone to live our lives. No labels neccessary.
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Truly worrying and can explain the uptick in the amount of children having these labels enforced on them, the almost monthly increases in percentages of ADHD etc reported. No wonder we are questioning why this is happening. We are driving our kids mad by over diagnosing general child behaviour š¢. Thanks Barry. Agree with you on this one! One of my great nephews is a quiet, serious child at times, loves reading & word searches, he's 7. Because of this apparent difference and a dislike of pulling jumpers over his head, he was given a zippered top, they wanted to have him screened for autismš¤¦š»āāļøš¤·š»āāļø. You can't fit a young child into a box, he's developing a personality and is a lovely little lad. Make me sad. š
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@janrobson9247
1 month ago
I have 35 years experience of being a registered mental health nurse This makes more sense for me than the gender woo woo stuff and the medicalisation of unhappiness in many
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