Psychologist Roger Covin argues that people should be careful when using the term “mental illness.” He suggests that we should be clear if we mean it literally, or if we mean it as a metaphor.
Why I Don’t Like The Term ‘Mental Illness’ (The Huffington Post, February 19, 2015)
“if we mean it literally, or if we mean it as a metaphor.”
What’s the difference? Psych professions complain that people use term depression to casually while it’s a serious “disease”. In the same time they think it’s OK to diagnose someone in grief with mental illness. It’s all a trick to add credibility to their claims. These “disorders” are nothing more as lists of symptoms and calling them depression or tomato does not change them into valid medical illnesses.
Lists of behaviors, for them to be symptoms you need an actual “disease”, and we have absolutely no proof that there actually is one of those behind them.
The problem is that in reality the DSM disorders are merely metaphors (and iatrogenicly created illnesses). But the psychiatric practitioners have deluded themselves into believing the DSM is a “bible” of real brain diseases cured with their toxic drugs. Those who should be the inmates are running the asylum now.
