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Psychiatry does seldom allow itself to notice that extraordinary and wild states of mind are sometimes neutral or even helpful, and might be more so if people got guidance in how to understand them rather than just efforts at suppression.
Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis, and Religious Studies
By Richard Saville-Smith
It is the capacity of mad studies to advance the idea that mad is not necessarily bad. Acute Religious Experiences are not necessarily pathological.
https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/03/acute-religious-experiences-madness/
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I think expanding definitions of what are mental health problems is especially destructive when our responses to mental health problems too often inadvertently make them worse - as seems so often to be the case.
"Labeling normative experiences as a mental health problem could create a “self-fulfilling prophecy,” whereby a person actually changes their behavior or beliefs to fit a diagnosis, and then actually does experience that mental health problem as a result." https://technosapiens.substack.com/p/is-mental-health-awareness-counterproductive
We experience confusing events, get confused, others are then confused about how to respond to us, their confusion and overreactions confuse us further, then they get more confused at our further confusion, etc. This is one model of how “mental illness” is not all inside anyone
Compassion and Understanding Versus Drugs and Disease: Where Does Humanistic Psychology Stand Now?
by Michael Cornwall, PhD
https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/03/humanistic-psychology-stand-now/