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Originally Posted by pachyderm
I think it depends on how one sees "medical" or what is included under the term "medical". I think some people, including some psychiatrists, use "medical" to deny that a person's experience has anything to do with the development of "mental illness". They want to see it as purely the result of "physical" factors (such as chemicals or genetic malformations). If medicine can include the effects of human interactions on the development of "mental illness" then that is to the good (I think).
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lessening the personal humane experience is my problem of the purely medical model. And adding "eat healthy, sleep well, excercise" doesn't really cut it either.
I have problem when trauma issues are viewed overly as "brain issue". To me it seems akin to "if your brain was healthy, you would be fine with what happened ot you". If anything, trauma related issues are injury to the soul... not an "illness".
Sayings like "it's your illness talking" make me mad. As I said elsewhere... what the person feels is real to them atm. And if I feel worthless and without purpose, "your illness is lying to you" will not make me feel better.
For me depression is often about lack of will to live (and I just don't mean in "I wanna die" sense... but rather "is all in vain, is all an illusion, let's not..."). Bit beyond sadness.
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