Posted by alexandra_k on February 4, 2014, at 1:27:58
In reply to Re: Does schizophrenia resolve?, posted by Christ_empowered on February 3, 2014, at 21:27:38
sometimes people say they find... some kind of peace in a diagnosis. validation of suffering. feelings of acceptance by being part of a group of people who share the diagnosis. that kind of thing.
othertimes people say they find... prejudice and stigma. and sometimes the worst of this isn't the way that other people (often including psychiatrists and mental health practitioners) but the way we come to view ourselves.
perhaps especially if we start to want to understand... and we follow the path of what the supposed world leaders have to say about this and that and the next thing.
like how wealthy white men used to advocate for womans rights... or for black people to be treated as just as good as white people or... disability rights or...
uh huh.
for sure.
on with the march of science, ho! that's where the solution lies...
i mean... that's what sorted out all the issues we have with women... with race... the advance of biological science has resulted in the advance of things like disability rights...
or... things like the advance of disability rights... have encouraged us to be a little more critical? circumspect? about what it is that the scientific data actually does support...
sigh.
perhaps i have something to say (a thesis to write) after all. only... when am i going to write it? and what support am i going to get? because whatever i've had so far... hasn't been enough. sigh.
annual report is due. oh. i thought they woulda just cut me by now...
i need to say something... sigh.
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