Depressed people are ridiculed by friends and family often because they can’t just “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.” This tends to even be a sort of professional view nowadays of psychiatry and psychotherapy in general.
Mental health has not been an exact science for long. Some argue it still isn’t and that psychiatry is barbaric. Here is a simple list of ten types of psychiatry that qualify to me as barbaric, past and present:
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When we go to the doctor or hire a lawyer or take a college course, we expect the people we encounter to be professionals. As such, we assume they don’t have any mental illnesses … that is, many people assume that. The truth is that many people in the professional world are doing their jobs [...]
Bipolar is “special” among mental illnesses in that it has something called “The Manic Episode.” People ranging from Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) to Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) have spoken publicly about theirs.
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I once read that the Chinese dragon we see in parades and such is an emblem of an enemy to defeat. By making ones enemy beautiful, it is thought that one can better defeat him. Depression is well known to have risen in diagnosis in past decades. Other mental illnesses remain in the shadows. For [...]
“We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.”
-Spider Robinson
Some of us are traveling in limousines, others are at the freeway on-ramp with cardboard signs. Regardless of the means, we are going from a point a to a point b every day of our lives. It is [...]
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