DISORDER
Is something ‘wrong’ with you?
We live in a
diagnosishappy era.
As medical practice becomes commercialized, our emotions become medicalized.
According to the DSM, fewer and fewer people will live their lives in relatively good mental health.
While a proper diagnosis is helpful when dealing with severe mental illness, for the vast majority of people receiving a diagnosis is confirmation that something is ‘wrong.’
And since most people already live with the sense that there’s something wrong or broken inside, an unnecessary diagnosis only serves to corroborate an already false belief.
The perilous highs, and desperate lows, and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart. – Terri Cheney
We’re now learning that, in most cases where there’s been a diagnosis, there’s actually nothing wrong other than people being crammed into a system or way of being that is antithetical to who they naturally are.
– Thomas Armstrong
The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. – Albert Camus
once we had characteristics
The real hopeless victims of mental illness are t normal. Many of them are normal because they because their human voice has been silenced struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the be called the absolute sense of the word; th abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment t mental sickness. These millions of abnormally no which, if they were fully human beings, the
now we have symptoms
to be found among those who appear to be most are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, so early in their lives, that they do not even e neurotic does. They are normal not in what may hey are normal only in relation to a profoundly to that abnormal society is a measure of their ormal people, living without fuss in a society to ey ought not to be adjusted. – Aldous Huxley
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. – Ray Bradbury