Medicine's big new battleground: does mental illness really exist?

[napoleon_in_rags]

89. You gotta draw the line in the sand somewhere.

Otherwise, I can predict future diagnosis from DSM-VI:

1) Economic Anxiety Disorder: Consuming anxiety about economic conditions. Treatable with meds
2) Climate Awareness Disorder: Perceptions of increases in extreme climate events such as storms. Treatable with meds.
3) Zombiphobia: The belief that people all around aren't responding to critical and threatening world events with economy and climate, but are walking around acting like over-medicated zombies. Treatable with meds.

Remember the old stereo-type of the guy in the shrink's office?

"Its not me who's crazy doc, the WORLD is crazy!"

While the doc nods patronizingly. But what when the world is a little crazy? What when we actually do need to make some changes? What precedes such a time is uncomfortable sense that something is wrong. A psychological discomfort. Without meds, that motivates needed change.

Point is, therapists need to be enabled to help people harness the transformative power of psychological condition, not just numb them to it.