The concept of mental health is a charter for hypochondriacs, narcissists, dishonest people, and social security fraudsters. Because who can prove that the person isn’t so depressed, anxious, or grief-stricken that they can’t work? Who can tell the difference between “I can’t”, “I won’t”, and “I don’t want to”?
Unfortunately, mental health has come to mean a deviation from a state of complete equanimity and contentment.
Fragile mental health, especially mental health problem, is said to be preventing many young people from working, with the result that people in their early 20s are now more likely to be unemployed in the UK than people in their early 40s. These days you even hear people say, “I’m mentally healthy.” This is not a positive meaning, but a negative one. Mental health means a state of something bad, a state of helplessness.
People with mental health issues or just plain people mental health, I can get by financially without having to work. I suspect this is a powerful cause of considerable psychological anxiety. Because most people still don’t like to feel powerless over others. Of course, the scammers among them are happy to get paid for doing nothing, especially if they can supplement their income with a side job.
But what is the difference between a genuine case and a fraudulent case, as long as a genuine case is really genuine? do Experiencing some type of misery is not an absolute certainty. If you play a role long enough, at the end of the day, that’s who you become. Habits change personality.
What is mental health? The only definition I can think of is the absence of complete insanity. Unfortunately, it has come to mean a departure from a state of complete calm and contentment. A long time ago, I noticed that the word “unhappiness” disappeared from the everyday dictionary, and in its place was the word “depression.” Currently, for every person who claims to be unhappy, there are thousands who say they are depressed. And this has nothing to do with the circumstances that make them so. When I tell depressed women, “If you’re happy and your disgusting boyfriend is pulling your hair or banging your head on the floor, then there’s probably something wrong with you.” They laughed as if they had known this all along. It is unreasonable to complain of depression in this situation.
However, the change in meaning from unhappiness to depression is often absurd, even comical, and is not without deleterious effects. If we are unhappy, we seek out the cause of it, and if we have what we used to call inner resources, we confront it. (Unfortunately, there are truly tragic situations in which this is not possible.) But when you claim that you have depression, you are shifting the blame onto the professionals, who can then do the work for you. Or expected to do something for you to get rid of depression. Remove the diseased appendix.
This is unnatural and explains why the expansion of so-called mental health services is like an animal constantly chasing its own tail. Supply creates its own demand. Psychiatrist Colin Brewer formulated the quasi-law that “suffering increases in response to the means available for its relief.”
I once calculated American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fiveth edition (A British judge passionately believes that Latin American farmers pray to the Virgin Mary for miraculous recovery of pigs.) The average citizen in a Western country suffers from mental illness two and a half times a year. One would conclude that he is suffering. .
Of course, there are trends in diagnosis as well. A generation ago, people had multiple personalities — three faces of eve DSM-5 suggested that the prevalence could reach 1.5% of the adult population, or 1 in 66 people. Since then, multiple personalities have become extremely rare.
Gender dysphoria is all the rage these days, with child gender identity referrals increasing from 210 per year in 2011 to 5,000 per year in 2021. There must be something new in the water supply. Either that or we’re dealing with a socio-psychological problem. infectious disease.
I do not deny the existence of genuine insanity and the possibility of physical illness manifesting itself with psychological symptoms straight out of the DSM-5. Psychiatrists and general physicians alike must be aware of this. However, this overlap does not explain the significant increase in mental illness diagnoses among young people. There is also no denying that there are many reasons why young people may be dissatisfied and anxious about their futures, from instability in family life to uncertain economic prospects. But an army of nurses, psychologists, therapists, and doctors won’t make things better. Instead, they end up digging a hole that is difficult for young people to escape from.
The diagnostic scope of psychiatry continues to expand, promoting the belief that any deviation from a desired mental state is a medical condition amenable to medical or other technological solutions. The result is a tendency toward hypochondria, and people begin to measure their mental temperature, so to speak, just as hypochondriacs measure their blood pressure. But it prevents honesty and true remorse and leads to the search for fake cures for fake illnesses. As a result, those who truly need care are ignored and drowned in a sea of growing needs.
There are ways to improve the situation. The first is to completely abandon the concept of mental health. The second is a waiver of automatic legal equivalence between mental and physical disorders.
This article was first published audienceUK website.
