Well, I'm more referring to your earlier statement that clinical depression can not be solved through will/thought/bucking up, etc... that it requires medication
and your defense of the mental health industry
So, to be brief:
something like schizophrenia being a technique of resistance implies that the problem is external to the individual
a chemical deficiency implies the opposite
I'm not sure how these are reconcilable
Perhaps I'm too suspicious, but having seen people interned, for example, when the primary factor seems to have been their inability to speak english... I don't think it's unwarranted
Uck that's a bad story! Of course, no one wants things like that to happen, and in a better-funded world of mental health institutions, where people were less ignorant in general about the whole thing, they probably wouldn't happen as often.
But first:
I did not defend the "mental health industry" as such, I just acknowledged that mental illness is *real* and that it can and often does require treatment. Newspaper articles further stigmatizing mental illness and underfunded institutions will not help matters in this regard.
Just because there is a genetic basis for schizophrenia doesn't mean it HAS to express itself. I believe that thanks to phenotypic plasticity, all of these terrible things lurking in our DNA, that have always been there and have come to the surface in more extreme cases (trauma, etc) in the past--well, they're everywhere now. They're legitimately everywhere. Schizophrenia is expressing itself so often in part due to environmental cues (capitalism).
In an ideal world, we would not treat schizophrenia until it became a serious problem. (violent)
See here's the real issue. As of now, the medical profession has to treat severe lack of function in the "real world" as a medical problem. And yes, sometimes with some disorders more than others, I think this is warranted. Others I think don't even respond very well to treatment, i.e.
We have ADD, defiance disorders, bipolar disorder, autism, and a few others that really seem to crop up as a means to resist the social order. These sorts of people are much more likely to question authority, question teachers, they have a hard time mirroring the "values system" that the system tries to set up in them.
Until the revolution comes, it would be pretty fucking evil to deny someone with ADD a medication that will enable them to lead a normal "productive" life if that's what they want to do.
It's a difficult subject, but yeah it's an interesting one...
