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I Have A Fascination With Mental Illness

The Puzzle That Wouldn't Be Solved

By: vault2007
Written on June 29th, 2011
Live with mental illness-- and in my struggle to understand what it is that I am going through, in my struggle to find others who share my struggle, I've read experienced and met all sorts of interesting folks going through pretty much everything, and the more I learn, the more questions I have-- I've even taught psych interns and have no backround in psych or anything related, except that I've read, met and experienced so much related to this subject!  Until I heal and learn to help others heal whenever possible, I will remain fascinated with this topic.
By: vault2007
Age: 26-30 , Female
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  • koyptakh
    koyptakh

    HI vault2007

    Do you ever think that the health model is inadequate to the human mental condition or phenomena? I mean what if you ditched it and just said everyone was within the normal range of human. In the past the health model has at least varied in who it includes. Could the model include other human behaviors like greed and meanness even? Interesting you are so interested.

    Best wishes

    :)

    Jun 30, 2011
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    • vault2007
      vault2007

      I believe that the health model is constructed primarily for business and marketing purposes, not for the benefit of the patient. It is so that the medications can be marketed for maximum profit. This is why there are so many depressed people on antidepressants remaining depressed (myself included, lol). Greed, Meanness- could technically be the very catalyst for the health model in the first place! What do you think?

      Jul 26, 2011
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