A_Wanderer
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I've been watching this documentary called "The Trap" on google video that covers how freedom is illusionary; it's the usual clip cutting propaganda that misrepresents things like game theory, selfish gene theory and monetarism but it does raise quite a bit on the DSM-IV criteria being objectively misrepresenting of individuals conditions and concequently medication is actually enabling people to be socially controlled under the guise of normality.
It mainly looks at those borderline and ambiguous conditions like anxiety disorders and social phobias and not the full blown psychosis (which you would have to be Tom Cruise to deny) but it certainly is thought provoking. Has there been overprescription, are societies becoming more narrow and making eccentricities the sorts of behaviours that have to be medicated away and is there a cost from this.
Im personally in favour of people doing what they want with their minds and think that there is a place for psychadellic drugs, individualism and not pining for the social acceptance of others ~ but then im a few standard deviations from the mean; using mind altering drugs to conform to social expectations seems to be a poor reason - people should live with ennui and focus on the distractions that makes it go away; there may well be the added benefit of those few crazy geniuses who make world changing discoveries.
Again this isn't to do with severe mental illness which is debilitating and I have seen how difficult it is to find and maintain a stable drug regiment on somebody who could off themselves before it is achieved, this is not to do with that, it is to do with the quest for normalcy and if it's worthwhile.
It mainly looks at those borderline and ambiguous conditions like anxiety disorders and social phobias and not the full blown psychosis (which you would have to be Tom Cruise to deny) but it certainly is thought provoking. Has there been overprescription, are societies becoming more narrow and making eccentricities the sorts of behaviours that have to be medicated away and is there a cost from this.
Im personally in favour of people doing what they want with their minds and think that there is a place for psychadellic drugs, individualism and not pining for the social acceptance of others ~ but then im a few standard deviations from the mean; using mind altering drugs to conform to social expectations seems to be a poor reason - people should live with ennui and focus on the distractions that makes it go away; there may well be the added benefit of those few crazy geniuses who make world changing discoveries.
Again this isn't to do with severe mental illness which is debilitating and I have seen how difficult it is to find and maintain a stable drug regiment on somebody who could off themselves before it is achieved, this is not to do with that, it is to do with the quest for normalcy and if it's worthwhile.
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