Everyone who works in this wonderful discipline called psychology knows it: consultations are full of sensitive people, not crazy people, they are not full of the mentally ill. They are full of people with a particular sensibility who, because they are not adequately cared for, will bear the label of the sick, when in fact they are brave people who try to resist.
When the world becomes too contradictory and difficult to bear, the disease appears in man as a defense against it. The dichotomy between normality and anomaly becomes difficult to understand when the environment fails, and the symptoms of people with a psychological disorder are simply proof that they are resisting, fighting what they don’t understand, if only the wrong way.
- The new DSM-V.
- Where all psychopathological disorders are collected.
- Adds up to more diagnostic indicators than many psychologists would like.
- Sometimes suffering is classified as harmful.
- Without realizing that it is the same suffering that tells us that something in a person’s life must change.
- Form and function.
Putting a label on all kinds of suffering brings together an instrument that pretends to be a scientist of the dreaded “Barnum effect”, closely associated with horoscopes: any description can be valid for those who read or receive it, because it is very much in this case, even if this new DSM-V is meant to be as accurate as possible, it has many diagnoses, so much so that each of us could have one or more.
Psychological suffering is not in a specific part of the brain, it is situational and subjective at the same time, with effects on the brain, but not the other way around, if so we would be talking about a psychological disorder due to an organic disorder. because, something that needs to be treated differently.
Psychology is a science; it doesn’t have to be a medical science, but an exact health science, with its own identity and distinct from medicine or psychiatry, even if they can work together, for this it is necessary to look at the roots and explore what trends are already doing: stop talking about categories and talk about people in a complex context , all with sensitivity and rigour, which do not oppose each other.
Psychology professionals have a great responsibility to patients, many of them seek serious treatment, but they are also looking for a human and sensitive person to talk to, we are no strangers to the world in which they live, we are also there.
Therefore, their symptoms inform us not only of what is happening to them, but also of what they are resisting, where in the world, where in history and their relationship with the untified world, he tells us not only about his sensitivity, but about the lack he has in this world.
Schizophrenia, border-limiting personality disorder, depression, addiction disorder, or bipolar disorder can have many causes and symptoms, as can be found in many textbooks and studies, which is sometimes unclear is that the variety of patients requires a compromise in finding what really fuels the disorder and resources they have to deal with it.
What for one person can be a stable and peaceful environment, for another can be limiting and inflict guilt. Even if they are biologically analogous, two people may be totally different depending on what they experienced and their interpretation of what they experienced.
That is why it is necessary to study sensitivity, reaction to a hostile world and emotional isolation in all cases, as they are the essence of any psychopathological disorder. Treat with scientific rigor, but also with social awareness.
Avoid destructive labels: a person may have been the victim of abuse, abuse, illness and all kinds of difficult situations and always be before you, whether as a person or as a professional, is courageous and deserves to be treated as such. Symptoms break your sensitivity and attachment to the world, further and further away from your goals and dreams.
Let us not participate in the indifference and coldness with which the world treats them. May your sensitivity return to welcome you, not to punish you. Tomorrow, your weakness may be ours; cure him we also do something for this “crazy” world, which we are all somehow.