| roastfreesteel@yahoo.com 2006-09-27, 2:32 am |
| You can't bump into someone on the street and make the kind of
subjective adn value laden judgments in that definition. I know
someone who was supposedly psychotic. Later it became clear the person
was dealing with memories of childhood abuse. Nowadays we have the
catch all PSTD diagnosis, so there is a chance that a person in saying
and doing similar things would be treated with MORE RESPECT FOR THE
PROCESS THEY ARE GOING THROUGH, rather than having their behaviors and
words treated as symptoms and analyzed as if all speech and actions
mean the same things in all situations. (psychiatrists tend to have
the same cultural blinders that the rest of us have)
What other states now defined as psychotic are actually the organism's
attempt at rebalancing. I am nto making the case that all people if
simply supported thruogh these states will heal themselves, nor am I
saying, as perhaps John would, that drugs should not be prescribed in
all cases. But the mindset that judges the atypical as pathological
has done us untold damage.
ace_berzerker wrote:
> John Jones wrote:
>
>
> the symptoms exhibited by the patient.
> i think losing touch with reality is one of them.
> it's not pleasant.
>
> "Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state in which
> thought and perception are severely impaired. Persons experiencing a
> psychotic episode may experience hallucinations, hold delusional beliefs
> (e.g., grandiose or paranoid delusions), demonstrate personality changes
> and exhibit disorganized thinking (see thought disorder). This is often
> accompanied by lack of insight into the unusual or bizarre nature of
> such behavior, difficulties with social interaction and impairments in
> carrying out the activities of daily living. A psychotic episode is
> often described as involving a 'loss of contact with reality'."
>
> -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis
>
> if you don't agree,John, what would you call a person you'd just met who
> was acting that way??
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