Tag: insight

One of the counselors at the crisis center asked me a simple but profound question; Are you ready to let go of your story?

The psychiatric concept of insight rests on the assumption that the psychiatrist, designated sane, knows what’s best. But if we question that assumption and consider that the medical model of mental illness may be incorrect, then the question of which party actually possesses insight becomes less clear.

A new study finds that clinicians’ disregard for mental health patients’ insight into their own condition may be detrimental to treatment.

I believe now that fifteen years is more than a fair try. Fifteen years of getting treatment without returning to function is actually insanity. I should have given up after year two. Instead of trusting my intuition and insight, I pushed it down and down... until it finally fought its way back to the surface.