Most mental disorders are incurable. The fact is, for now, all we can do is control them with medication and behavioral modification . Controlling something with medication is not a cure. It only gets rid of the symptoms. Drugs or behavioral treatments can not extinguish the pathology that causes the disorders. The reality is once the patient is off meds or no longer takes part in the behavioral treatment, symptoms will likely return.
Too many people seem to 'want' to be classified with some kind of disorder or use it as an excuse. Your post is spot on.
It's simple having a disorder accounts for individual differences between people. It also gives us excuses for the way we act and the mistakes we make. Diagnoses also give a person some hope that they may be able to 'overcome' these differences. The need for some sort of diagnosis stems from the feeling that we all need to be as smart, sexy, savvy, and sociable as the next person.
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Most mental disorders are incurable. The fact is, for now, all we can do is control them with medication and behavioral modification . Controlling something with medication is not a cure. It only gets rid of the symptoms. Drugs or behavioral treatments can not extinguish the pathology that causes the disorders. The reality is once the patient is off meds or no longer takes part in the behavioral treatment, symptoms will likely return.
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Too many people seem to 'want' to be classified with some kind of disorder or use it as an excuse. Your post is spot on.
It's simple having a disorder accounts for individual differences between people. It also gives us excuses for the way we act and the mistakes we make. Diagnoses also give a person some hope that they may be able to 'overcome' these differences. The need for some sort of diagnosis stems from the feeling that we all need to be as smart, sexy, savvy, and sociable as the next person.