“Mental health is a commitment to reality at any cost.”
Depression is considered a mental illness. The depressed are less biased in their self-assessments than the population as a whole. Personally, I agree with Caplan and Szasz that “mental illness” is a poor borrowing from medicine to psychiatry and is usually unfalsifiable.
“Mental health is a commitment to reality at any cost.” Depression is considered a mental illness. The depressed are less biased in their self-assessments than the population as a whole. Personally, I agree with Caplan and Szasz that “mental illness” is a poor borrowing from medicine to psychiatry and is usually unfalsifiable.