(May 12, 2013 at 12:06 pm)dazzn Wrote:(May 12, 2013 at 11:41 am)Rhythm Wrote: Degrees of deviation from the mean. The mean being a sort of general description of the "normal" state of mind. Which is, of course, malleable. That's actually one of the strengths of doing it this way - if the goal is to grease the wheels of interaction with "normal" people. Presumably, it is.
I'm not sure what you're referring to when you mention conservative social norms or their lesser applicability. Rephrase?
Psychiatrists define illness merely by not adhering to norms, per their definition, which are often those of the 19th and early 20th century. To them, anybody who doesn't live in a conservative lifestyle are "ill".
So, according to these "people":
- Spring breakers who get drunk and have sex whilst on vacation are "ill"
- People who smoke weed on weekends a lot despite having good jobs even are "ill"
- People who don't go to church ever and despise religion are "ill"
- People who watch pornography and Hollywood movies containing sex and violence are "ill"
- People who subscribe to relativistic thinking in morals or values, or see no evidence for absolutes in our universe are "ill"
Says who? What psychiatrists say that dumb shit? Is that fundamentally built into psychiatry?
