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In reply to the discussion: Medicine's big new battleground: does mental illness really exist? [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)119. Please drop me a PM
and we can definitely chat some more about this.
Yes, this is a real problem. As a somaticist, I know that the body and mind are like the flip sides of a coin. Heads is not tails and tails is not heads yet they really are not separate things, are they? I watched my father's personality change after multiple heart surgeries and pacemakers. I have a friend who survived cancer, and he is not the same person mentally that he was. Change the body, change the mind. Change the mind, change the body.
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That was a very "negative" reply, Bernardo. Would you like to talk about it? nt
JustABozoOnThisBus
May 2013
#75
I have also made other posts in this thread. I don't think they deny all genetics. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2013
#102
You sound like you have never experienced mental illness. The problem with treating
Maraya1969
May 2013
#6
You sound like you have never experienced a good behavioral psychologist. The problem with treating
Junkpet
May 2013
#113
My opinion is driven in part by my years of experience with mental illness.
napoleon_in_rags
May 2013
#86
personally, I think one or two 8-9 hour blocks of pure sleep helps more than any treatment.
Sunlei
May 2013
#101
Then a Doctor should place the person in a sleep center for 10 hours under sleep meds.
Sunlei
May 2013
#116
But you see, you actually get at the very CORE of the problem with the status quo.
napoleon_in_rags
May 2013
#152
They jumped the shark when they said that grief lasting more than two weeks was a
Squinch
May 2013
#36
There is a video on Youtube called "The biology of belief" and the man speaking was a pioneer
Maraya1969
May 2013
#83
A very interesting area of research is EpiGenetics: study of factors outside of DNA affecting gene
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2013
#84
+1 agree it's positively fascinating -how emotions and behaviors/experiences alter your health. n/t
JudyM
May 2013
#161
at some level basically indistinguishable from mental illness. and the bird phobia? 3 generations
HiPointDem
May 2013
#149
i dispute it. we learn what the world is, how to interpret it, who we are and how to behave
HiPointDem
May 2013
#175
Yes/no. Alzheimer's has real physical elements but that doesn't contradict the call the doctors make
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2013
#18
'all' 'mental illnesses' have biological underpinnings in the same sense that life has biological
HiPointDem
May 2013
#150
I am torn about this. I have a cousin that I am very close to who has been diagnosed
AnnieK401
May 2013
#11
'There are genes that do NOT turn on, like depression' = and which genes are those, specifically?
HiPointDem
May 2013
#151
They would also like you to know that tin foil hats do indeed protect you from prying brain scans.
originalpckelly
May 2013
#17
Emphysema has a material cause. One questions 'mental illness' when most of the population
HiPointDem
May 2013
#74
they would affect both reproduction and survival. if you're hallucinating, collapsed into yourself
HiPointDem
May 2013
#148
'organic brain disorders' aren't genetic; they're disease states with physical causes and can
HiPointDem
May 2013
#153
except your 'brain part' does get ill, and causes identifiable manifestations. it just happens
HiPointDem
May 2013
#154
insulin actually is a cure of sorts for diabetes, if the diabetes is caused by the body's inability
HiPointDem
May 2013
#155
if it's genetic and organic, what are the biomarkers? answer: there aren't any.
HiPointDem
May 2013
#156
+1. " You are complex, and wonderful, and sometimes incomprehensible"
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2013
#53
How do these people explain Autism and other disorders that are not products of breakdown, then?
1monster
May 2013
#50
No. I attacked the post, not the person. And so what if they have been appointed to their position?
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2013
#59
'A post that calls something "bullshit" without any analysis or discussion is not worthy of respect'
postatomic
May 2013
#65
adolescence isn't a life change? the biological determinists would *love* to find some
HiPointDem
May 2013
#157
It's not the Religion, it is the surrounding tools that make religion effective.
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2013
#85
like pharma-therapy isn't fad-driven? i can write the same history about each generation of
HiPointDem
May 2013
#72
'You're cured! It's a miracle!' Meaning insurance won't cover it, so it doesn't exist. Only one
freshwest
May 2013
#115
If this makes mental health treatment less pharmacutical, less in a correctional facility ....
marble falls
May 2013
#78
You're right. Just because a set of behaviors can be described and labeled ...
marble falls
May 2013
#100
R.D. Laing made the same arguments decades ago - Good luck Scientologists with this new attempt
NoodleyAppendage
May 2013
#90