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

[Neoma]

177. Your words? Right, let's go down the list.

First, you do not acknowledge that television is stigmatizing and distorted towards people with mental health problems. I can see your mental health education already. Then it's the 1 in 5 americans are taking psych meds. You repeat this statistic over again and said that "There have always been Americans with mental illness, but not that many." You know, autism is on the rise (that's a mental illness, in case you weren't aware,) so is diabetes. But people don't think of the mentally ill in the same way they think of a person who is physically ill. Since the brain isn't a part of the body, right? Do you even realize how big of an umbrella 'mentally ill' covers? There can't be a rise in brain diseases because...?

You completely skip over my point that people DO do the holistic things for years before trying to get medication. You completely skip over my point that with your message that there's too many people on pills, it actually tells people who needs help, to not get help because of "society that over prescribes psyche meds." Do you know why mental illnesses are labels in the first place? It's because people are bigoted ableistic assholes. I don't walk around complaining that those darn cardiac arrest people are a menace to society. But since it's our brains giving us problems? You also have no idea what some people are without pills, and looking at something else you wrote... it's a huge assumption to think all depression comes from lack of sun light by the way. There's depression, then there's Major Depression, then there's Bipolar depression. I knew a guy with depression for probably 10 years or more. What finally worked for him? Electric Shock Therapy. Oh dear, the horror, the horror.

In this conversation with me, you did not say medicine saves lives, and exactly the time you decide to have a hissy-fit you try to claim authority over me in the mental health world. Bad form.