Who is mentally ill, and who is not? How we make the distinction can have a profound effect on whether people get the help they need.
We are all on a continuum of mental health and illness, but there is a point of diagnosis somewhere along the spectrum.
The stigma wrongly associated with mental illness can be addressed through honest public dialogue about conditions such as schizophrenia.Source: Anna Tarazevich/PexelsIn recent decades, there has been a movement away from conceptualising mental health and mental illness as dichotomous, and a movement toward seeing them as points on a continuum. We are all somewhere on this spectrum.
In other words, we are all on a continuum of mental health and illness, but there is a point of diagnosis somewhere along the spectrum. Diagnosis is complex. are used with care, humility, and flexibility, if at all. The person always comes first. The individual’s story is far more important than any diagnostic category.Today, there is an undeniable tendency to medicalise unhappiness, as people reach for the language of psychiatry to describe everyday sadness and upset. This is a pity.
First, public discussions about mental health and illness are more useful when they recognise a distinction between the psychological distresses of everyday life and serious mental illness . Although debilitating, the former are unlikely to be helped by applying a psychiatric framework and might even be worsened.
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