10-31-2024, 12:52 PM
There you go again, RT, pushing the liberal agenda of "mental illness". I'll refer you to the work of Thomas Szasz:
Also, I would caution you not to fall into the trap of the "toothbrush" conspiracy. There is a reason dentists hand out those evil devices for free.
Quote:“The primary problem with modern psychiatry is its reduction of mental illness to bodily dysfunction. Objectification of those identified as mentally ill, by insisting on the somatic nature of their illness, may apparently simplify matters and help protect those trying to provide care from the pain experienced by those needing support. But psychiatric assessment too often fails to appreciate personal and social precursors of mental illness by avoiding or not taking account of such psychosocial considerations. Mainstream psychiatry acts on the somatic hypothesis of mental illness to the detriment of understanding people's problems.”
― Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Quote:“The claim that “mental illnesses are diagnosable disorders of the brain” is not based on scientific research; it is a lie, an error, or a naive revival of the somatic premise of the long-discredited humoral theory of disease. My claim that mental illnesses are fictitious illnesses is also not based on scientific research; it rests on the materialist-scientific definition of illness as a pathological alteration of cells, tissues, and organs. If we accept this scientific definition of disease, then it follows that mental illness is a metaphor, and that asserting that view is asserting an analytic truth, not subject to empirical falsification.”
― Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Quote:“The fact that atomic energy is used in warfare does not make international conflicts problems in physics; likewise, the fact that the brain is used in human behavior does not make moral and personal conflicts problems in medicine.”
― Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Also, I would caution you not to fall into the trap of the "toothbrush" conspiracy. There is a reason dentists hand out those evil devices for free.