The Americanization of Mental Illness

FASCINATING article from the NYTs: The Americanization of Mental Illness.

If you read it, please comment back here. I would love to hear more opinions on this one…

george ebert

January 15th, 2010 at 6:59 pm

Calling people who are having emotional or behavior issues “mentally ill” serves only to allow special doctors administer special procedures on special people – most often without our willing and informed consent.
jen

January 16th, 2010 at 7:51 pm

totally agreed george. The system takes advantage by diagnosing what they don’t understand and then simply medicate without concern for personal differences.
Scott

February 27th, 2010 at 10:24 pm

Boy do I agree with the above comments and the premise of this article! I am a man who lived for 12 years with a mis-diagnosis of bipolar disorder and nearly lost my life as a result. Please look at my story on my website http://www.liveyourpassion.org/about-scott/

I want to blog/chat with others who may be concerned about this serious risk and form of subtle maltreatment.

Thank you for looking at my personal story.

Scott