Monday, December 2, 2013

Is Depression Really a Mental Illness?

Not according to Jaime Flexman of Huffington Post UK. He writes"

"The media, bless 'em, do their best to paint any form of mental illness in a positive light. Explaining that depression, anxiety, addiction and anything related to those three are now legitimate diseases that deserve the same respect and attention as anything physical.

Well thanks but the last I heard, the brain was a part of the body, and a damn important one at that.

As long as we treat an illness of the brain as something different from the rest of the body then it will never receive the same amount of attention."

There are some other great insights in the piece, which you can read in its entirety here.