Posted by yxibow on September 10, 2009, at 19:37:51
In reply to Re: Was Psychiatry your 'last resort' ?, posted by Maxime on September 10, 2009, at 18:00:20
> I don't understand why people would feel shameful or embarrassed to seek psychiatric help. If you had trouble with your heart you would see a cardiologist. I guess people feel ashamed because of the stigma of mental illness. But that stigma was created by society and means nothing. You gotta do what you gotta do.
People can feel very ashamed by the stigma of mental illness. I know I can feel it. Its what organizations like NAMI are trying to fight against and educate.But I rarely hear about them on here and advocacy is to the community and not often to the public at large to change people's views.
I completely agree with your comparison between say a heart disease and mental illness.
We can argue from here to tomorrow how much things are nurture and nature, but I for one believe these are largely biochemical in nature, and the more that argument is made, the more one can try to get across that there is no difference.
Mental health or otherwise, one of the best arguments today for narrowing the health care gap in the "debate" on giving affordable health care in the US, is that illnesses cost businesses billions of dollars a year in sick time and loss of employers to treatable conditions if they would just chip in.The costs of providing more health insurance and care from businesses would be far less than the loss of dollars of productivity.
-- Jay
poster:yxibow
thread:916197
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20090902/msgs/916409.html