Who decides if you’re mentally ill?

Part of the problem is I think we’re largely on our own to try and put words to feelings and patterns that aren’t pathological. People don’t like when someone says “I’m totally OCD” when describing a behavioral difficulty because it can minimize the sick, but whether it’s OCD or mania or attention, it seems like we need a DSM of the moderate. Ways to think about ways the brain works and how to cope.

I appreciate the predicament of the front line therapists in the mental health system.

> “Many people have suffered because of inept psychiatry”

Psychiatry has suffered from the transition to becoming prescribers of psychotropic drugs. It’s all most of them get trained in, but it wasn’t always this way.

I have a book by some good psychiatrists, circa 1947/1952. They helped patients with industrial gasses.

Milton Erickson was a good psychiatrist, who developed his own approach to hypnosis.

Some doctors help patients with thyroid and other gentle prescriptions.

“But Lin makes the case that there are chemical and industrial by-products that could account for the decades-long uptick in ASD, and that by uncritically embracing neurodivergence, we occlude the possibility of asking corporations and regulators to be responsible for what he believes is effectively poisoning people.”

One of the poisons behind autism is now the standard of care. Warned a 60yo friend about her daily use. Eventually she linked a dizzy spell to the poison, cut it out completely and it’s doing much better with Her overall achiness. Inflammation is a large part of the autism problem.