Written by john on February 23rd, 2010
Some Rights Reserved by Onkel_Wart at Flickr Like many, I’ve been worried that the revision of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the source for all our diagnoses, could lead to what’s been called the medicalization of normality. But there are even more fundamental problems inherent in the classification system itself. It slots you [...]
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Written by john on August 28th, 2009
Some Rights Reserved by Boskizzi at Flickr The words went up like walls, and I stepped inside to stay. I paced around in that confinement and after a while got to know the enclosure well. I liked its stillness and the sense of limits and order. Around me I read the names for mental things [...]
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Written by john on July 17th, 2009
Some Rights Reserved by Tom(hmm a rosa tint) at Flickr When I started getting a diagnosis of “depression” years ago, I found myself assuming that this was the name for a permanent condition rather than one dimension in the changing nature of an unfolding life. Later, the term became more formalized as “major depressive disorder [...]
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