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In reply to the discussion: Medicine's big new battleground: does mental illness really exist? [View all]Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Get it? Take medication because you are legitimately unhappy with something in the environment. Sound familiar?
Somehow I doubt they are talking about ceasing treatment. People with schizophrenia will still receive antipsychotics, the DSM will still call it schizophrenia or however they refer to it.
I would suspect this has more to do with people treating the common human experience as symptoms of a disease.
A kid with too much energy, inability to focus, and discipline problems at school just might not have a disorder known as ADHD. Perhaps, just perhaps, he's just like a kid with too much energy, inability to focus, and discipline problems.
Maybe, just maybe, a morose person is not suffering from the disease of depression, but is, in fact, sad for real reasons and the quick fix of drugs just removes the depth and breadth of the human experience.