Any One Here Suffer From A Mental Disorder?

I am a long term Alaskan single guy. There are quite a number of real symptoms.

I am not ready to be put in a cage and fed with a slingshot yet.

Maybe next week. I better get out of here before then.
 
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i dont like the words 'mental disorder' it should be renamed as 'mental hardship'
disorder implies a connotion to associated with 'law and disorder' hence portraying sufferers somewhat as 'criminals' i just dont like it.
and that hospital staff, admins treats these paitents (and including very mild out-paitents!!) as problem people, a statistic they'd rather get rid of.
its like some pyscho doctors are the criminals themsevles, meddling and messing people up with toxic prescriptions
 
Michel Foucault, a C20th French philosopher, had some very interesting things to say on madness and mental illness. He draws attention to how society - or in particular, the medical profession - treats people who are perceived to be suffering from madness. He argues that some people who are labelled "mad" aren't really ill, just different from "normal". He does recognise genuine mental illness, but argues that other stuff gets added thus confusing the issue.

Depression is a good example. The pharmaceutical industry makes big bucks from getting as many people as possible labelled "depressed". A core of these suffer immensely from genuine depression, but many others are just suffering from "the blues" and medication is more or less useless for this milder type.
 
AJWSmith said:
Michel Foucault, a C20th French philosopher, had some very interesting things to say on madness and mental illness. He draws attention to how society - or in particular, the medical profession - treats people who are perceived to be suffering from madness. He argues that some people who are labelled "mad" aren't really ill, just different from "normal". He does recognise genuine mental illness, but argues that other stuff gets added thus confusing the issue.

Depression is a good example. The pharmaceutical industry makes big bucks from getting as many people as possible labelled "depressed". A core of these suffer immensely from genuine depression, but many others are just suffering from "the blues" and medication is more or less useless for this milder type.
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ye foucault, he is a 'sociologist without realisiing it' he's hard to follow, a good thinker but shamely he died of AIDS due to his excessively promiscuous ways

he liked to compare and contrast opposites to make fun of it, in his weird mad high thinking ways

savages, and civiliasation,
etc etc

but um
another problem institutionalisation of medicine have spanned so far and wide now its even reached to marketing not just to hospitals on large scales but to individual comsumers on LARGE scale too!, this is 'wellness' shit, really warped...
dare i say, he discounted the marketsation eventualities
 
AJWSmith said:
Michel Foucault, a C20th French philosopher, had some very interesting things to say on madness and mental illness. He draws attention to how society - or in particular, the medical profession - treats people who are perceived to be suffering from madness. He argues that some people who are labelled "mad" aren't really ill, just different from "normal". He does recognise genuine mental illness, but argues that other stuff gets added thus confusing the issue.

Depression is a good example. The pharmaceutical industry makes big bucks from getting as many people as possible labelled "depressed". A core of these suffer immensely from genuine depression, but many others are just suffering from "the blues" and medication is more or less useless for this milder type.
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i still think you need to investigate this bit more before you say it, 'the "blues" is real, think about it, it the mass losses of Jobs, and chaotic political shift and labour market-quakes thats rattled people's security of 'the self" i mean peolpe are now realising without actually 'seeing' its from the powers-that-be (ie govt acting on behalf of multi national companies to lay-off and pacify the would-be-dangerous masses, who would disapprove, and hence protests get too violent)..
the blues isn't just 'moods' things are REAL, Divorces DO put incredible amount of pressure, as does keeping focus is just a small but vital part (think of a stepping stone is missing to get across the river, you're gonna get WET or worse slip and fall down the stream!) real life are like that too.
People KNOW, 'one slip i all it take to lose everything, so its small wonder people are being crippled, its gona nothing to do with 'inhereint inability to handle stress' its the wankers from above, and they are buddies with the rich pricks in sweden who make happy pills....
 
Foucault had some pretty ridiculous theories on women and mental disorders. I studied some of his stuff for an article I wrote on Victorian literature because he was such a prominent psychologist during he Victorian erra.
 
As a massage therapist I see what drugs people are taking 6 or 7 times a day, on their medical intake forms. When I first started I was rather surprised by the amount of people on prozac, every stinking body is on prozac. I exaggerate. But one thing I have noticed is that large large amounts of college age girls are on it. Do you know what one of the side effects of it are? Weight loss, I am half convinced that these girls just go to their doctor, yes you can get a prescription for from your family doctor you don't have to see a psychiatrist, and tell them they're depressed just so they can get on it and stay thin. :(
 
BrittBritt said:
Foucault had some pretty ridiculous theories on women and mental disorders. I studied some of his stuff for an article I wrote on Victorian literature because he was such a prominent psychologist during he Victorian erra.
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he was alive in 50/60/70/80s not the victorian times, but yes he wrote some ideas. nah not ridiculous by that much, some a little strange yes, he was French so yah they're strange people
 
put another way too though, dont have to agree with everything he said (i didnt) but also can pick some out which i liked, thing is, some parts i liked, should ought be considered for further (and actual) research, that way we'd be getting out and proving against institutions...but then institution are run by people, other theories claims institutions have a life of its own, much like economy; 'not caring about people anymore'
 
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Grummer said:
he was alive in 50/60/70/80s not the victorian times, but yes he wrote some ideas. nah not ridiculous by that much, some a little strange yes, he was French so yah they're strange people
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I beg your pardon, Grummer; you are so right! I was confusing him w Dr Silas Weir Mitchell. I studied Foucault when I wrote on the American Revolutionary time period and the spread of the plague. Foucault had some really cool theories on statutory identity and contamination during historical outbreaks of the plague. I really enjoyed reading his theories. Then again, I also really enjoyed reading Dr Silas Weir Mitchell's theories too, just because of how unbelievable the stuff was and how popular it was at the time.
 
amylynne said:
I know you just asked for the gist of it, but I thought I'd take a shot at writing up the whole thing. Mostly as an exercise for myself. If you still want a condensed version, drop me a line.

*Not the right word. Anyone help me with the sign at 1:10?
**1:16, seems like she got cut off by the video editing, or I missed something. Anyone?
***1:56 - I used causes, but that's not what she's mouthing. Not sure. Anyone catch it?
****4:19, this looks like a lexicalized fingerspelling #CO (company?) but I'm not sure if that fits in the sentence.

(I'm bouncing back and forth between interpreting more fully into English typical usage vs trying to keep the signs she used intact as much as possible, only because I'm working hard these days on trying to catch every sign and notice how the signer put them together, not just getting the basic idea and running with it.)
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:ty:
 
Medical Marijuana

Medical marijuana is NOT issued to those with mental issues, but if it were to become available those that suffer from bipolar, and other like conditions, can such a treatment help/hurt the patient? Your view please.
 
ambrosia said:
nah he's talking about deaftears, oh so very definitely schizophrenic, but we don't even want to start down that road!

I don't suffer from a mental disorder.....I rather enjoy being crazy :) :ty:
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The trouble in the website for me isn't that I deny schizophrenia but that basic factual issues are attributed to my having credibility and understanding problems. This attempt to deter understanding by appeal to false consciousness has taken ugly turns when I was trying to be reasonable with All Deaf participants. You are not very brave and picking on me by way of my weak spots is troublingly characteristic of those bravery issues you face.
 
On the face of it-seems "unusual" that one can have "insight" into their own "mental condition" eg schizophrenia etc Excluding being a "google graduate" having no study/exams etc.
Right-study at one's own pace!

Does the old theory-one can't be their own doctor still apply?
 
My hearing best friend has BiPolar and there is numerous of relatives from my mother's side have a mental illness/disorder. Great Aunt with any kind of mental illness can give it to her granddaughter or her niece. Grandfather, Great uncle, aunt or cousin can be found with diagnosis of mental illness/disorder by skipping one generation over DNA gene from other relative with mental illness. Pretty scary, isn't it? My two aunts have paranoia schizophrena and my first cousin i dont know what kind of mental disorder he has which it has been for around 25 years that i barely ever remember him nor felt that I had never met him and my second cousin has mild Bipolar, i think thats what i was told. But after having a child or several children, it hits the mother with post pantrum and leads to mental illness. It's possible. My grandfather from my father's side was put away in a group nursing home due to mental illness from 1968 until upon his death in 1982. I dk what kind of mental illness he had. Another 2nd cousin from father's side has it as well....crazy.
 
I have Depressive-type (not bipolar) Schizoaffective Disorder. I don't know anyone that has this disorder. I feel alone in this. :(
 
you are depressed but happen to be in schizophrenia spectrum am right,that is rough thing to have
 
I see dead people if its any consololation, the trick is to sign to them when they see you,
Trips em out....
 
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:hmm:...15 years ago I was on Prozac for depression. After a year I stopped taking it...People suffer from depression and life in general....I go with the flow and have managed my own depression without meds. Seems there's a Pill for this and a pill for that...sooner or later they get hooked. And with all the drug addictions and alcoholism in my own family....I'm the only 1 that isn't on any medication...won't take anything that I feel I don't need.
 
caz said:
you are depressed but happen to be in schizophrenia spectrum am right,that is rough thing to have
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It only happens when I am stressed out or extremely depressed. I appear normal to most people.
 
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