busyOne of them gave me a shout-out today for a comment I left. We're talking about how and why the treatment of mental complaints lags behind that of physical complaints, and it started with a previous discussion about whether and why drugs can be helpful.
Basically, I have noticed certain patterns in dealing with friends who have mental challenges, and that has built up a little basket of ideas on the topic. Sometimes when an opportunity arises, I set one of them out. One of these days I need to flesh these out and present them in full. You can see bits of several here: different solutions work for different people because there are many different causes of mental complaints, and there's a difference between mental illness and mental </i> injury, and we just don't have ways of perceiving exactly what needs to be fixed let alone the ability to reach in and repair it. So we ... muddle.
"Mental illness" is a very imprecise term
August 10 2009, 17:38:30 UTC 11 years ago
It certainly may be that my set of interlocked symptoms came about as a result of genetic damage. Unfortunately, nobody knew anything about that when I was a child.
So, I take the meds and do the exercises, reconcile myself to the fact that my condition is most certainly not temporary, and do the best I can.
Re: "Mental illness" is a very imprecise term
August 10 2009, 22:10:38 UTC 11 years ago
* acute, like the flu, or
* chronic, like asthma
AND
* caused by interior problems, like breast cancer, or
* caused by environmetal toxins, like lead poisoning, or
* caused by external contagion, like the flu.
People are not always aware of these distinctions.