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Post by Admin on Feb 23, 2018 19:22:37 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 26, 2018 11:42:03 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2018 7:47:09 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 11, 2018 7:52:31 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 21, 2018 12:11:50 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 25, 2018 13:40:36 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 25, 2018 14:15:35 GMT
14 – 15 May 2018, Room XVI, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland The Human Rights Council in its resolution 36/13, recognised that persons with psychosocial disabilities, persons with mental health conditions, and mental health users face widespread discrimination, stigma, prejudice, violence, abuse, social exclusion and segregation, unlawful or arbitrary institutionalization, overmedicalization and treatment practices that fail to respect their autonomy, will and preferences. In order to address these human rights violations, the Council decided to hold a one day and a half consultation on mental health and human rights which will focus on “Identifying strategies to promote human rights in mental health.” www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/MentalHealth.aspx
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Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2018 9:17:44 GMT
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Post by snowstorm on Jun 22, 2018 17:50:40 GMT
"With respect to the mental illness diagnosis, itself, when a psychiatrist decides that a person has a mental illness and that person disagrees, according to the psychiatrist, that disagreement just shows the person lacks "insight" and is in itself proof of the mental illness. Catch-22."
From the above link, this does sum up a real problem. The psychiatrist in this example doesn't allow for the idea that even if someone is really unwell, there can be lucidity mixed in as well, it's not entirely black and white. Also, disagreeing can be seen as being awkward.
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Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2018 17:53:58 GMT
"With respect to the mental illness diagnosis, itself, when a psychiatrist decides that a person has a mental illness and that person disagrees, according to the psychiatrist, that disagreement just shows the person lacks "insight" and is in itself proof of the mental illness. Catch-22." From the above link, this does sum up a real problem. The psychiatrist in this example doesn't allow for the idea that even if someone is really unwell, there can be lucidity mixed in as well, it's not entirely black and white. Also, disagreeing can be seen as being awkward. i fully agree - but the anti-psychiatry side are in my view as bad with all this in their denial of illness. My view is that we need far more in depth & comprehensive understandings & approaches to it all - But Neither the anti or pro side agree & very few people in fact do.
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Post by snowstorm on Jun 22, 2018 18:05:53 GMT
I also think that denial of illness doesn't get us very far - it's too much of a blanket approach and also doesn't allow for the very real way people need to be physically looked after/ cared for when unwell.
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Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2018 18:10:49 GMT
I also think that denial of illness doesn't get us very far - it's too much of a blanket approach and also doesn't allow for the very real way people need to be physically looked after/ cared for when unwell. The extreme anti psychiatry & extreme pro biomedical psychiatry i think are 2 sides of the same coin & as bad as each other. But what is the solution with it all? There are so many vagaries involved within all this area - & the Atheist 'scientific' materialist paradigm / world view also appears to increasingly dominate a lot of discussion / debate on it all as well.
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Post by snowstorm on Jun 22, 2018 18:28:20 GMT
The extremes are unsurprisingly not the answer imo, no matter how much they shout that they are. We have what we have, I just like the idea of really listening to what someone suffering wants themselves, be it a tablet, therapist, spiritual support, voice reduction techniques, social activities etc., even a chance to attempt to deal with the situation in their own way while being looked after.
The difficulty comes when they cannot even express that.
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Post by snowstorm on Jul 13, 2018 13:18:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2018 19:18:23 GMT
I suppose again the reason this is allowed to not be a priority is because society isn't bothered about the severely mentally ill. It is not seen as a problem if the public are protected from the insane axe wielding monsters (sarcasm of course).
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