I was under the impression that psychiatry was supposed to be about mental well-being rather than conformity.
Where did you get an idea like that? Though, it depends a lot on the doctor. The establishment may be about conformity, but a lot of individual doctors are all about well being. Unfortunately, you got to hunt for them, and by definition, when you're mentally ill, your mental reserves to do the hunting are a little short.
And further, why is the idea that something is a natural reaction to circumstance opposed to the idea that something is a mental illness? A broken leg is a natural reaction to falling off a cliff, but that doesn't make it healthy.
My doctor had to spell this out for me. He told me flat out that after what I went through, of course I have PTSD, and he would have been worried about the way my brain worked if I didn't.
Side note, when anybody tries to force people to come in to work or class where I have to be with a cold, they get a nasty lecture about potentially infecting me. Colds and an immune disease are a bad combination.
Yes, Avatar! Weren't we talking about that earlier?
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Date: 2013-03-23 01:19 pm (UTC)Where did you get an idea like that? Though, it depends a lot on the doctor. The establishment may be about conformity, but a lot of individual doctors are all about well being. Unfortunately, you got to hunt for them, and by definition, when you're mentally ill, your mental reserves to do the hunting are a little short.
And further, why is the idea that something is a natural reaction to circumstance opposed to the idea that something is a mental illness? A broken leg is a natural reaction to falling off a cliff, but that doesn't make it healthy.
My doctor had to spell this out for me. He told me flat out that after what I went through, of course I have PTSD, and he would have been worried about the way my brain worked if I didn't.
Side note, when anybody tries to force people to come in to work or class where I have to be with a cold, they get a nasty lecture about potentially infecting me. Colds and an immune disease are a bad combination.
Yes, Avatar! Weren't we talking about that earlier?