Re: Horizon: How Mad Are You? - Watch this, if you have not done so.

On 19 Nov, 15:17, Maria <oldwo...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Webmanager_CritEst wrote:
The reality of misdiagnosis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/tvandradioblog/2008/nov/05/horizon-...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/headroom/

I'm glad I watched this programme - I finally became able to put a name
to my own disorder. Now maybe I can try to seek effective treatment.

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It's not you that needs treatment, it's society itself that is
mentally ill.
Our societal arrangements automatically generate pain / anxiety /
neurosis.
The way to treat mental "disorder" is to work toward abolishing the
societal arrangements that inevitably cause madness.
The way forward is to concentrate on confronting the collective
societal madness, rather than demonising and patronising individual
victims of the collective societal madness.
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