I woke up this morning aware of the way my father had pathologized me and used my issues as a way of avoiding looking at his own behaviour, and what part it had to play in the destruction of our relationship. It lead me to google the word 'pathologize' and look into the various ways in which this is such an enculturated norm these days.
I stumbled on this article in the Huffington Post, about how anxiety is often pathologized and how the DSM in general has gotten way out of hand, and the way people are claiming mental illness over every little emotion they have, and having that validated by the psychiatric community, or some dubious ones at least, is creating a world where people have lost track of what is 'normal, healthy' levels of anxiety, and what is 'abnormal'.
I thought this would be an interesting topic to discuss...here is the article.Dead Link Removed
I stumbled on this article in the Huffington Post, about how anxiety is often pathologized and how the DSM in general has gotten way out of hand, and the way people are claiming mental illness over every little emotion they have, and having that validated by the psychiatric community, or some dubious ones at least, is creating a world where people have lost track of what is 'normal, healthy' levels of anxiety, and what is 'abnormal'.
I thought this would be an interesting topic to discuss...here is the article.Dead Link Removed
