Sender: SJU Madness List <MADNESS@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Tue, 3 Jan 1995
 
> My opinion is that we are arguing over the wrong thing.
>
> What I believe is that there indeed is neurobiological disorder
> that is usually dealt with best by meds.  And there is spiritual
> crisis that is best dealt with by support and maybe retreat and
> transformation, and there are problems in living, and there is
> stress, and abuse, and trauma, and ...
>
> I think the problem is lumping this all together, calling it
> mental illness, and then arguing over whether mental illness
> exists and whether to medicate it.
>
> I think if we unsnarled that tangle of miseries, we could go
> forward together.
>
> Underlying the mental illness conglomeration, is the urgency of
> psychiatry and psychology to expand their territories, pitch
> their wares, heal our deficits.