Many of the problems inherent in our society are indeed due to the medicalization of morality and the utter abandonment of personal accountability. Most of the diagnosed cases of anxiety, depression, and yes, the absurd DSM diagnoses of gambling addiction and sex addiction are moral problems, not medical problems. Attempting to address t…
Many of the problems inherent in our society are indeed due to the medicalization of morality and the utter abandonment of personal accountability. Most of the diagnosed cases of anxiety, depression, and yes, the absurd DSM diagnoses of gambling addiction and sex addiction are moral problems, not medical problems. Attempting to address these with psychiatrists (who have epically failed to demonstrate any biochemical underpinning for these disorders) and medications (which rarely work and when they do, it is unclear how they work) is bound to fail. Human beings are not animals, there is more to us than the material. Ignoring the "soul", or however you wish to term our unique, non-physical mind, will lead to the continued disaster that is the mental health state in this country. If mental illness were indeed purely physical/material, it should be prevalent in the animal population too, and we would expect to see not infrequent animal suicides among other manifestations which are absurd to even contemplate.
"While the public tends to see other addictions as chemical—in no small part, presumably, because those addictions involve putting things in your body—gambling is considered a “moral weakness,” Derevensky said. "
Many of the problems inherent in our society are indeed due to the medicalization of morality and the utter abandonment of personal accountability. Most of the diagnosed cases of anxiety, depression, and yes, the absurd DSM diagnoses of gambling addiction and sex addiction are moral problems, not medical problems. Attempting to address these with psychiatrists (who have epically failed to demonstrate any biochemical underpinning for these disorders) and medications (which rarely work and when they do, it is unclear how they work) is bound to fail. Human beings are not animals, there is more to us than the material. Ignoring the "soul", or however you wish to term our unique, non-physical mind, will lead to the continued disaster that is the mental health state in this country. If mental illness were indeed purely physical/material, it should be prevalent in the animal population too, and we would expect to see not infrequent animal suicides among other manifestations which are absurd to even contemplate.
"While the public tends to see other addictions as chemical—in no small part, presumably, because those addictions involve putting things in your body—gambling is considered a “moral weakness,” Derevensky said. "