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Many think that it is about the stress reactions that then arise - but you cannot solve stress reactions that someone becomes aware of in the body at the same level as where they arise - in the body.
"I have today reported SVT's Fråga doktorn to the review committee for radio and television. This after the program's ADHD feature on April 17 and based on the numerous misleading and incorrect statements about ADHD that appeared in the program."
I am an extremely critical psychiatrist, but I believe that mental illnesses, although rare, exist and that drugs used selectively, prudently, and for the shortest possible time are beneficial. However, 90% of the people who enter my office do not have a mental illness. They have emotional and psychological experiences of suffering.
The time is long overdue to shift the focus from mental illness as a disease manifestation in the biomedical sense to mental illness and pain as a basic condition. This can be a valuable correction which is not only life-saving, but even life-promoting.
Cataloging ourselves as "sick" has been, and is, a constant strategy to take our voice away.