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Is This Still How Psychiatrists See Us?

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Another school 'A' Level Art show piece consisting of a brain with labels padlocked onto it about Schizophrenia, Depression, Agoraphobia, etc. I believe this is still how trhe average psychiatrist treats the majority (if not all) of his patients, as a brain to which some clinical label has been attatched. This piece, as I see it, celebrates the recent publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fifth version, of the American Psychiatric Association; a major diagnostic handbook throughout the Western World which we are now told contains yet more labels medicalising the way human beings feel when they experience various forms of distress. There has been some skepticism about the validity of some of these labels as 'psychological disorders' come and go. Homosexuality goes out, gender or body dysmorphia comes in and so on.
Image size
6016x4000px 24.76 MB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D3200
Shutter Speed
1/125 second
Aperture
F/5.6
Focal Length
26 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Jun 21, 2013, 6:57:04 PM
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Yeah, sometimes you will put somehow in a category. It happens really often, that you will be classified to a majority with hardly similar symptoms, and there are trends. I know what I'm talking about, I have agoraphobia and a generalized anxiety disorder. I have luck with my therapist, she is not fixed or so obsessed by labels like others, but I know many people who had or have this problem and I don't think that it will be better in a few years. Sorry that I write half a novel, but I totally agree with that what you wrote :)