Mental & Other Health Catch Phrases?

[crystalgaze]

I don't know if "catch phrase" is the appropriate term for what I'm thinking.

Maybe paradigm shift is what I mean... I'm not sure right now....

What I wanted to know: Does any one remember medical words or conditions/diseases that were popular in the medical world? (A diagnosis that is ridiculously popular....)


Here's what I mean.... I don't know if you all noticed, but THE US--AT LEAST--IS IN WHAT I CALL THE DEPRESSION AGE CURRENTLY. Many commercials/ads/etc are now talking about it.

Just you watch, there will be more depression diagnoses soon! When the doctor doesn't know what's wrong with you, you may be "depressed".

WE MUST BE WEARY & VIGILANT IN PROTECTING OURSELVES FROM THESE LABELS THAT IN TURN BEGIN A VICIOUS CYCLE!


Some terms I recall:

Now: It's DEPRESSION/DEPRESSED.

Before that: BIPOLAR DISORDER/BIPOLAR

I think some time ago--maybe in the 90s--it was ADD/ADHD...

There might have been something where Obsessive Compulsive Disorder was popular....

I've seen a lot of autism commercials now too.... Cancer or conditions leading to it seems to have their niche now too....

I mean CHEESE & BREAD!!!

(Awareness is good, but hrrmm.... I don't know.... There seems to be something wrong with how it's all done....)

I'm not against meds + docs entirely, but we seriously must be weary...

Hope I expressed what I meant properly....

[shatteredhopes]

I think one difference is when you have cancer, the cancer causes symptoms (of course, you can trace back to what caused the cancer, but the cancer itself is a disease); whereas when you have depression, its a label they put on certain symptoms, without necessarily an immediately identifiable cause. Meds and certain medicine are aimed at treating some symptoms, without diagnosing their root cause. Part of the popularity of diagnoses rises and falls with pharmaceutical development (profits) and psychiatric drug development is a more profitable field...part I think stems from pollution/toxins/factory farms and problems with our food supply that have arisen with modern civilization...part of it I think stems from flaws in western thinking/culturally flawed in fundamental philosophy...and the zeitgeist of current conditions in Western civilization...

They used to call depression "melancholia" back in the 1800s...you have to wonder, how can two people experience the exact same traumatic event, and one develop PTSD and the other not? Sometimes there are also upon autopsy for instance fundamental differences in brain structure in some people...as if some people are born genetically/biologically predisposed to certain conditions and behaviors...

Psychiatric medicine and psychology is really in its infancy compared to other medical disciplines, and in some ways is still very barbaric.

I applaud you for looking for root causes for your illness. As for me, I take medicine while looking for root causes...its like I have a friend who is elderly with a heart condition, and she takes medication for her heart condition, but also anti-anxiety meds on the direction of her cardiologist because she cannot afford to get too stressed, as it could prove fatal for her. I personally think there is a real use for psychiatric meds, but it is being over-relied upon and pursued (for profit) rather than looking for root causes and alternative, less invasive and less noxious methods of dealing with the symptoms (as sometimes the side effects are worse than the original problems) and sometimes have little or no real benefit in some folks. But for some, medicine works wonders...still so much we don't know...

Bottom line, mental illness makes most people uncomfortable, so they drug some of us into oblivion not for our benefit, but because its a matter of control...

Just try to go into a psychiatric hospital and tell them you don't want meds! If you want to look for natural methods or examine the roots of your illness, they may just keep you indefinitely or get an order to drug you against your will...its not a matter of truly doing what's best for or helping the patient, its a matter of societal control.

I was watching Book TV this weekend and again the author of how schizophrenia became an African-American disease...tracing for instance how certain dissidents were labeled to control them and diminish legitimacy; and how the media is fascinated with someone who commits crime out of "mental illness" compared to those who commit the same crime who are not labeled as such...and how the public now views the mentally ill as dangerous, when proportionally, we may be less dangerous then the general population or other populations due to certain conditions may be pre-disposed to violence...and how for instance poverty and oppression can create a toxic recipe for problems...so rather than deal with the root causes, society disproportionately labels more African-Americans schizophrenic than other populations...curiouser and curiouser...the legitimization of discrimation among society not only in the African-American population, but among all those labeled "mentally ill."

[crystalgaze]

S-hopes.... This is a compliment: You could be one great political science professor!

I hear what you are saying & I am glad that I expressed myself properly enough to be (semi) understood.

I am weary of doctors & specialists--with particular emphasis on psychologists + psychiatrists + anyone like this--because the ones I've encountered do not ever look for root causes & root PHYSICAL causes. (I have not seen that one to date whether here where I live or abroad on the US mainland.)

However, there is still a lot of time left to see whether I may be pleasantly surprised.