Reddit reviews The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
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http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Mental-Illness-Foundations-Personal/dp/0061771228
Should be a lesson about how much dedication over lifetimes is necessary to challenge certain kinds of error in society. As a non-libertarian is said to have said, "Never never never never never never never give up."
Well perhaps the fact that you vote diseases i to existence. Real diseases are not invented, they are discovered. I was not saying animals can’t have emotions, but they don’t have a mental disease. Here is a great book:
https://www.amazon.fr/Myth-Mental-Illness-Foundations-Personal/dp/0061771228
I would agree with you, but if you've ever been institutionalized, you'll find out pretty quickly that the dominant paradigm doesn't. The "mental illess" label, in all my experiences, is used to pretty much absolve a person of any blame, and attribute all agency to some kind of bad genetics or other.
In other words, in the mental health world, you might find that many if not most practitioners would try to convince you that yes, air density is not only the main thing that affects your car speed, it's more or less the only thing.
Besides personal experience, I'm kind of cribbing from Thomas Szasz here. He has a lot of good books, but this one is as cromulent a starting place as any:
https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Mental-Illness-Foundations-Personal/dp/0061771228/ref=sr_1_1?crid=217CB9I9L1F9V&keywords=myth+of+mental+illness+thomas+szasz&qid=1570540858&sprefix=myth+of+mental+ill%2Caps%2C227&sr=8-1