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Re: Implants, ECT

Posted by med_empowered on December 2, 2005, at 22:11:32

In reply to Re: Implants, ECT, posted by Squiggles on December 2, 2005, at 20:11:34

Undoubtedly, what one feels and thinks emanates from the brain. The question is..when what one feels or thinks or how one behaves is undesirable or deviant, is it in fact an "illness" in the truest sense? And..if there are physical differences in the brain, is it because the brain suddently went crazy, or is it a result of of something else? Its like that study where they found that meditation changes the brain, and playing the violin changes the brain...it isn't as simple as "crazy comes from the brain"...theres a whole lot more involved here. And since bipolar/depression/etc. aren't fatal in and of themselves--no one ever died of advanced dysthmia, for instance--I kind of think the mentall illness thing is more analogy than well-researched, data-backed fact. As for involuntary treatment..that is just plain disturbing.

Its like the "medicalization of deviance" Foucault and others (Goffman, Szasz) talked about.


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