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I said it was neoliberal mode of capitalism in particular that came to the fore at the end of the 1970s or the 80s during Reagan and Thatcher :Originally Posted by Smitty
I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand ‘I have a problem, it is the Government’s job to cope with it!’ or ‘I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!’ ‘I am homeless, the Government must house me!’ and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.--Margaret Thatcher
Also, psychiatry was at a crisis point around this time or a bit before too but then they 'saved psychiatry' or Robert Spitzer did by 'fixing the statistics' in the DSM-III to seem more 'accurate or reliable' but in fact he used a cheating linguistic sleight of hand. Psychiatry is still no better than it was during the famous Rosenhan experiment. Psychiatry is not scientific but a product of unscrupulous politics and bureaucracy :
These [ psychiatric diagnoses--007] no longer seem at all reducible to simple diseases, but rather are better understood as no more than currently convenient constructs or heuristics that allow us [psychiatrists --007]to communicate with one another.
https://peh-med.biomedcentral.com/ar.../1747-5341-7-3
Every so often Al Frances says something that seems to surprise even him. Just now, for instance, in the predawn darkness of his comfortable, rambling home in Carmel, California, he has broken off his exercise routine to declare that "there is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it." Then an odd, reflective look crosses his face, as if he's taking in the strangeness of this scene: Allen Frances, lead editor of the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (universally known as the DSM-IV), the guy who wrote the book on mental illness, confessing that "these concepts are virtually impossible to define precisely with bright lines at the boundaries." For the first time in two days, the conversation comes to an awkward halt.
https://www.wired.com/2010/12/ff-dsmv/
There might be something to the whole 'mental illness' thing for instance inflammation caused by the standard North American capitalist driven SAD diet. However, the idea that are real diseases called bipolar and schizophrenia that a person has to take medication their entire life for is bullshit. A holistic approach and naturopathy can either eliminate the need for medications or reduce them in many cases. Psychiatrists are not real doctors that are interested in curing the inflammation or whatnot that is causing the problem but just want to profit $ off of human misery and be corrupt servants of the government and big pharma.
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