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Jun. 7th, 2005 03:32 amNow working two jobs & summer class. Also have spanking new TV and PS2. These two facts are not financially related in any way.
Although I'm enjoying my summer class (in the way that I don't have to do any work for it because I already know the material) and like my professor, I was deeply skeptical at his overview of mental illnesses, particularly his insistance that all mental illnesses have chemical imbalance components and are treatable with modern pharmacology. Perhaps my previous studies in the more social side of psychology have left me biased, but to hear him talk, you'd think that major depression and schizophrenia were the only two insanities ever to afflict mankind.
What am I saying, catch-22. If your definition of mental illness includes only things diagnosable by PET and treatable by drugs, then you're only going to consider things like MDD and schizophrenia as mental illnesses.
Although I'm enjoying my summer class (in the way that I don't have to do any work for it because I already know the material) and like my professor, I was deeply skeptical at his overview of mental illnesses, particularly his insistance that all mental illnesses have chemical imbalance components and are treatable with modern pharmacology. Perhaps my previous studies in the more social side of psychology have left me biased, but to hear him talk, you'd think that major depression and schizophrenia were the only two insanities ever to afflict mankind.
What am I saying, catch-22. If your definition of mental illness includes only things diagnosable by PET and treatable by drugs, then you're only going to consider things like MDD and schizophrenia as mental illnesses.
