To the contrary, his argument (which is actually voicing an argument made by a faction of mental disability activists themselves) is that the labeling we use now combined with debilitating drugs treats people as incapable of participating in work, family, and community and they come to see themselves as incapable as well.
The problem is, they're never going to get help to do anything otherwise and get better treatment, unless they do it themselves because the medical community is married to the Feed 'em a Pill Model. As my doctor told me: "Sorry, I have 15 minutes for you. Let's focus on one thing. It's just the way it is. That's why most doctors will write a prescription and send you home. I don't like it, but this is the way it is."
As Grace said, (and even someone from the Netherlands said): 15 minutes with a patient is on the "high" side. Lucky he even spent that long with me.
At 09:09 PM 9/15/2012, Carrol Cox wrote:
>I don't know if anyone ever took "chemical imbalance" as technically
>correct, but it was a useful prop for sufferers. Probably the terminology &
>the diagnosis will be quite different in another decade or three -- but
>behind it all there is a fucking lot of real human misery.
>
>Carrol
>
>P.S. My optical cortex is undoubtedly loony. As an opthamologist remarked,
>if you think they're real you need another kind of doctor! I haven't been
>able to see the E on eye charts for three years: some optical hallucination
>covers it. If I could draw the faces I see I could make a fortune designing
>monsters for movies. At first they were quite varied, both realistic and
>fantastic, but they've become a bore in silly shades of green.
>
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