Welcome to From Insults To Respect. Back in 2019, I criticized the use of “antipsychotics” and on Facebook someone criticized what I had written saying, “all of the research clearly indicates that the “antipsychotics,” when used by people diagnosed as having schizophrenia, decrease the risk of dying.” I then, very respectfully, asked that he supply me with the references that he is relying on to make…
Welcome to From Insults To Respect. Last year I published a post titled “Are Antipsychotics Beneficial?” (see HERE). Although I had personally reviewed the research, I relied on my method of presenting this information to readers by summarizing a free PDF written by the highly regarded science writer, Robert Whitaker, titled, “The Case Against Antipsychotics: A Review of Their Long-term Effects.” By clicking on the blue…
Recently I provided a post titled, “Are Mental Illnesses Really Illnesses? And Why do People Care?” There are a lot of people out there who were very supportive of the post, but at the same time, some were angry that I would even raise the question. One of the most angry person mentioned that the proof that mental illnesses are real illnesses was that the…
If your behavior, thoughts, or feelings become a concern, for a fee, many psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers are eager to translate your experiences into a language of symptoms, diagnoses, psychopathology, and mental illness. In an earlier post I provided negative criticism about this type of name-calling (see here). Today, we focus in on an additional problem with the pathologizing approach. Psychiatric Name-Calling Simplistically Devalues…
