"The solution to this mental health crisis is clear: teach and reinforce better habits."
One of the better habits is to avoid pathologizing all negative emotions. Psychiatry wants to label, diagnose, and prescribe meds for all sorts of natural human responses to difficulties in life. You're not just sad or feeling purposeless; you have ma…
"The solution to this mental health crisis is clear: teach and reinforce better habits."
One of the better habits is to avoid pathologizing all negative emotions. Psychiatry wants to label, diagnose, and prescribe meds for all sorts of natural human responses to difficulties in life. You're not just sad or feeling purposeless; you have major depressive disorder. Grieving is given an "acceptable" time limit, and then diagnosed as mental illness if it lasts "too long." Instead of helping you make a plan for addressing things that make you feel anxious, they say you have an anxiety disorder and then put you on life-altering meds.
Then...
The meds cause more symptoms and you get more diagnoses and meds, and it is all seen as a worsening of a previously existing condition rather than a result of the lack of proper non-pharmaceutical treatment and a reaction to the medications.
"The solution to this mental health crisis is clear: teach and reinforce better habits."
One of the better habits is to avoid pathologizing all negative emotions. Psychiatry wants to label, diagnose, and prescribe meds for all sorts of natural human responses to difficulties in life. You're not just sad or feeling purposeless; you have major depressive disorder. Grieving is given an "acceptable" time limit, and then diagnosed as mental illness if it lasts "too long." Instead of helping you make a plan for addressing things that make you feel anxious, they say you have an anxiety disorder and then put you on life-altering meds.
Then...
The meds cause more symptoms and you get more diagnoses and meds, and it is all seen as a worsening of a previously existing condition rather than a result of the lack of proper non-pharmaceutical treatment and a reaction to the medications.