HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Naomi Wolf, Social Anxiety Disorder, Mental Disorder

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1CC3
• Professor: Mat Savelli

Document Summary

So what is mental illness exactly: it is open to interpretation. To a lot of people, it looks like: (a google image of insane people, grabbing onto their heads, in mental discomfort: many people have the dominant image of the de nition of mental illness" as a. And these people used to be mentally ill . The image of good" mental health: spiritual replenishing, yoga, etc. What does a mental disorder do: mental disorders are characterized by their effect on: * some disorders only affect one of these characterization. Ways of thinking about mental illness: mental illness as a spiritual problem. (possession, problematic relationship with god: mental illness as a balance problem. (yin/yang , bodily humours - chemical imbalance: mental illness as a somatic problem. Somatic = [having to do with the body] (ibn-sina, psychopharmaceuticals: mental illness as a personal problem. (moral failing, no such thing as a mental illness at all: mental illness as a problem of consciousness.