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East of Broken Bow | Part of it is today's society - the 'experts' tell us nothing is anyone's fault, if they have a problem it is because of outside influences or a disorder they have. I think the idea behind it is not to stigmatize anyone with issues. However, this also has the effect of people not taking responsibility for themselves because it isn't their fault, they have a condition. Carrying this to the extreme, you wind up with grown adults who were born male, appear male, but throw a temper tantrum like a 2 year old if you call them 'sir' because they identify as a 'ma'am'. Combine that with the requirements in Obamacare to cover all sorts of 'mental health' issues, and all sorts of 'doctors' have come out of the woodwork, ready to medicate people at the drop of a hat, because if they can diagnose a 'condition' that requires treatment and/or a prescription, they can make a nice profit from it. I'd be willing to bet that if there was no insurance money to be collected, and no profit to be made from it, the number of diagnosed 'conditions' would plummet.
Side note: When I was young, I was considered hyperactive. Didn't really cause problems, just couldn't sit still and be quiet. My grade school teacher whom I have great respect for told me I had too much energy, go run around the schoolhouse 2 or 3 times to burn it off. After a month or two of this, I kind of got over it, and while still a fidgety child, it became managable, and by the next year I was fine, and was fine ever since, at least in the sense of it being a problem.
Fast forward to my nephew. He acted EXACTLY as I did at his age, but he had a 'condition' that they medicated him for, which caused more problems than it solved. To this day I still think his ongoing problems had a lot to do with the fact that theer just wasn't any profit to be had by having him run around the school. | |
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Youth & mental issues
