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[14. Jan 2025|08:58] |
Fragmenti no raksta par mentālo veselību
This is not another article about whether ADHD and ASD are real, were underdiagnosed in the past or are overdiagnosed now, because the answer to all of those questions is: yes, obviously. More interesting is why so many adults are keen to be told they have the conditions. It is estimated it would take the NHS eight years to assess all the adults now on waiting lists for an ADHD diagnosis. Many are instead going to private clinics or online, and, in my entirely anecdotal but by now extensive experience, pretty much no one gets a negative result from those places. Defenders will say that’s because only those with ADHD get tested. Sceptics will say that capitalism understands the desires of the market.
“The overarching problem is that for ADHD, virtually all of the symptoms are present reasonably frequently in the general population. Almost everyone is somewhat distractible and inattentive at times on any given day. So I think what is happening is that low levels of symptoms, which are normal, are being increasingly seen as pathological,” says Dr John Tully, a clinical associate professor in forensic psychiatry, who has worked with prisoners with ADHD.
The desire to pathologise the human condition is understandable. Ever since I turned 40 I’ve blamed every moment of scattiness on the perimenopause, which is preferable to accepting I’m a bit of an idiot. But it’s also a reflection of how attitudes to mental illness have changed. In the mid-1990s, when I was finally discharged from a psychiatric hospital after spending nearly three years as an inpatient, I had one goal: to ensure no one ever found out. Back then, mental illness was shameful, which was bad and sad. But, as so often happens in social shifts, there has been an overcorrection, and now that every Premier League footballer talks about his depression and anxiety, mental illness is seen as an identity.
https://archive.is/diJY9
We are all neurodiverse, because everyone’s brain is different. The world is not made up of fully functioning people versus those who struggle. Everyone struggles — some, sadly, much more than others — but also everyone changes. To pathologise your healthy but imperfect personality shuts down that latter possibility, which is such a waste. |
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| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | 14. Janvāris 2025 - 16:16 |
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redzi, nevienam neinteresē mentālā veselība, tāpat kā fēču mikrobioms un kardiometabolisms
Atbilde ir vienkārša - nekā personīga, tikai bizness.
Ja par diagnozi var sanemt praktiskus taustāmus ieguvumus, kāpēc nepietēlot... | |
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