Thanks, I was wondering if anyone else was thinking the same thing I was.
And just as it isn’t compassionate to protect our kids from struggle, it isn’t compassionate to tell someone who is struggling with psychological damage that they are normal. Medication isn’t the answer either - something happened to screw them up and it needs to be dealt with, not ignored, normalized, or drugged into oblivion.
Exactly, which is why I had to rewrite Dr. Roger McMillen's tweet to read:
Myself, and many others, are fed up with psychiatric disorders being turned into normal human experiences.
For decades, we have been normalizing aberrant behavior...
Thanks, I was wondering if anyone else was thinking the same thing I was.
And just as it isn’t compassionate to protect our kids from struggle, it isn’t compassionate to tell someone who is struggling with psychological damage that they are normal. Medication isn’t the answer either - something happened to screw them up and it needs to be dealt with, not ignored, normalized, or drugged into oblivion.