in a way these disorders are fake ... I'm ADHD diagnosed and I think also asd. not saying they aren't real...
I'm saying they're as real as an apple is really an apple as in would it be an apple if somebody didn't label it as one?
diseases of the body have very specific symptoms but also an underlying cause injury, cell damage, virus, bacteria...
mental health isn't just the brain...
we can't tie consciousness just to the brain...I mean it could be something in our entire central nervous system...
all these things are... are buckets...
imagine you're fishing and you throw in a bunch of similar fish into a bucket and separate them into two big buckets as similar as possible... you might still have 4 different species of fish per bucket...
that's all mental health diagnoses feel like ..a big bucket because everyone behaves differently in different circumstances under different stimulus...
were you exposed to lead recently and are more aggressive? are your hormones elevated or lowered than norms?
all these little chemical signals going through the brain shape the consciousness to a star or a square but it's not really a star or square... it just closer to a star and square and it's soft around the edges so you can push it into the star shape diagnoses hole even though it's different ...
my point is it's all a spectrum and you can't be on the spectrum with aids, cancer, COVID. you have it or you don't... you can have more serious cases or not but there's a definite... solidity to what is infecting you...
so personally I think it'd be better if we made smaller buckets that were more about labeling what our symptoms are... then treat those specifically better and maybe have a few broader treatments that treat maybe a trifecta of symptoms...
I'm not sure if my point is coming across... basically mental disorders are real but at the same time they're not... because it's an illness if the consciousness.. of thought... and emotions... and the smallest imbalance in even our gut which has brain cells can cause certain reactions...
I'm saying they're as real as an apple is really an apple as in would it be an apple if somebody didn't label it as one?
diseases of the body have very specific symptoms but also an underlying cause injury, cell damage, virus, bacteria...
mental health isn't just the brain...
we can't tie consciousness just to the brain...I mean it could be something in our entire central nervous system...
all these things are... are buckets...
imagine you're fishing and you throw in a bunch of similar fish into a bucket and separate them into two big buckets as similar as possible... you might still have 4 different species of fish per bucket...
that's all mental health diagnoses feel like ..a big bucket because everyone behaves differently in different circumstances under different stimulus...
were you exposed to lead recently and are more aggressive? are your hormones elevated or lowered than norms?
all these little chemical signals going through the brain shape the consciousness to a star or a square but it's not really a star or square... it just closer to a star and square and it's soft around the edges so you can push it into the star shape diagnoses hole even though it's different ...
my point is it's all a spectrum and you can't be on the spectrum with aids, cancer, COVID. you have it or you don't... you can have more serious cases or not but there's a definite... solidity to what is infecting you...
so personally I think it'd be better if we made smaller buckets that were more about labeling what our symptoms are... then treat those specifically better and maybe have a few broader treatments that treat maybe a trifecta of symptoms...
I'm not sure if my point is coming across... basically mental disorders are real but at the same time they're not... because it's an illness if the consciousness.. of thought... and emotions... and the smallest imbalance in even our gut which has brain cells can cause certain reactions...