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Infants need mental health checks?
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learning is part of growing up, and the people whe often have the strangest views on life are often the most interesting and contributing
"Oh no, my baby said 'Goo goo abrr'. he's mentally retarded!!!!"
That sums it up.
Or maybe you don't. Klintock has some very strange ideas about mental illness.
I hope any treatment is focused around the whole family unit rather than just the child.
And parents dont want to go to Social Services and say 'I cant cope with my child' because of the fear they will be taken away.
1) The bell curve.
All physchiatry operates from the model of normative statistics. This means that there can never be any end to mental illness. Because they will always look at behaviours on either side of that bell curve as being "wrong" and will want to do something about them. There is NO classification in the bible of mental health for normal.
2) Drugs.
It's always on with the motley with drugs. Mental illness is said to be caused by "chemical imbalance" so you can use more chemicals to fix it. Like people were cars or something, and without asking what caused the imbalance in the first place. What other solution presents itself? It's not like you can go back through childhood issues. They haven't had a childhood yet.
3) It sees mental illness as an individual problem, when it is obviously a sociological/interpersonal one. In our safe little worlds of modern technology, we want things that work properly. This is starting to include people. Rather than we as individuals developing interpersonal skills with each other, the sensitivity and ability to treat each other as different with dignity, it's increasingly the case that as soon as someone doesn't instantly conform to the generally expected view of "normal" they are labeled with a disease and drugged up so they will fit in.
http://www.23nlpeople.com/Rant.htm
Have a rant.
All young kids entering school basically have two things on their mind:
Cause harm
Rip the piss out of what's different.
No normal person has such values as the entireity of their thoughts. No good psychiatrist would consider such a thing mentally healthy!
Best psychoanalyse them until someone gets hurt!!!!!! :yes: :impissed:
Kid.
Regardless, it's banned again.