Posted by baseball55 on December 26, 2015, at 19:23:07
In reply to labels, posted by elanor roosevelt on December 25, 2015, at 15:04:10
The idea that we are labeled because we "disturb the norms" is kind of what Szasz (?sp) and Foucault argued. When I got depressed and started see a doctor for meds and therapy, my husband went into this whole rant on this. My response was, and is, it's not like these mental health practitioners are out trolling the street for clients, labeling everyone who violates social norms and throwing them in institutions. That may have been true in the 1800s and early 1900s, but it's not true today. We, ourselves, seek out help not because we are violating social norms, but because we feel awful and want to feel better. We go to them, they don't come to us. If labels are necessary to get paid by insurance companies, so be it.
My diagnosis is MDD, but there are features that are not quite consistent with the DSM definition of MDD. My doctor just says, you have a serious mood disorder, call it Bipolar 3-A or whatever. But for insurance purposes, he calls it MDD. F33, by the way. (I have to submit my own claims).
> for psychiatry to become an accepted science it was necessary to categorize and label the hell out of everything. we fall into categories that science does not consider "normal" we don't fit in to the expectation of the order of things. so we are labeled as having an "illness" or disorder"
> due to the fantasy sanity facade in our society the "mental disorder or illness" labels intimidate and disturb the "norms" they want us to pull it all together or at least pull together a facade. they see us as weak and unwilling to make the effort to be "normal" and if we are unable to "get well" under the guidance of therapists and through the wisdom of the pharmaceutical industry, even the science of psychiatry, at times, want us to take the blame..or at least go away.
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> all this, in a society where meanness, selfishness, inconsideration, hateful exclusion,dishonesty and greed fall into the norm
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