Got this from Facebook - The Institute of Art and Ideas
We’re living in the midst of a mental health crisis — or are we?
Have we started to medicalise too much of everyday human experience?
In this thought-provoking talk, leading psychiatrist and epidemiologist Simon Wessely questions the growing trend of over-diagnosis in mental health.
He warns that the medical community may be mislabelling normal psychological struggles as clinical disorders — and explains why this could have serious consequences for individuals and society.
Enjoyed reading your well-written blog!
Always tend to be drawn to the bad news…it’s a funny old thing, but being aware of negativity bias is very helpful.
Wholly our fault and in our way we often revel in it. My simple take.
Walk with me through a valley of flowers
And you'll remember the sudden showers
The wasp that sought a taste of your lips
The muddy path that made you slip
As for the blooms, they'll not last
Their memory will soon fade and pass
They'll lie forgotten like many good things
Unlike the nettles with their cursed stings
It's like our love, you could say, on a bad day,
Those arguments that erupt into heated brays,
Gobbling the good times swiftly away,
Leaving the memories of the bad things we say
Oh, to be as our hearts quietly, silently yearn
To laugh as children before they're made to learn
And to play with our friends without a single ploy
Other than to goad each other into bursts of pure joy
But grow to bite that bitter fruit it seems we must
And keep chewing the pith for it is our guilty lust
It's far stronger than love; and greater than art
And its taste will stay with us, until we depart.
Nice Ray. All best
Got this from Facebook - The Institute of Art and Ideas
We’re living in the midst of a mental health crisis — or are we?
Have we started to medicalise too much of everyday human experience?
In this thought-provoking talk, leading psychiatrist and epidemiologist Simon Wessely questions the growing trend of over-diagnosis in mental health.
He warns that the medical community may be mislabelling normal psychological struggles as clinical disorders — and explains why this could have serious consequences for individuals and society.
Link to watch his take on why not all mental health is a medical condition: https://iai.tv/video/mental-health-is-not-a-medical-condition-simon-wessely