thinking on psycholoigist....so what are your views...tell them?

Question

There are psychologists who specialize in mental illness that are still searching for the causes of these tragic conditions. Mental disorders are regarded as diseases. The medical perspective on psychopathology has several powerful implications. Whether or not specific neurological roots can be identified, and the medical model suggests that we should not blame the mentally ill for their condition. We do not control events coming into our lives, but we choose how to respond. On the anxiety disorders the part that affects me is the Phobias. I believe I have all those phobias, but not obsessively.

Answer 1

People don't always have the luxury of choosing how to respond to some things. It may be lovely to imagine that they do, and that anyone with mental health issues could choose to respond differently; but the reality is they cannot always choose how to respond - whether that's when it comes to anxiety, phobia, or anything.

It is entirely possible for a person with the wrong type of nurturing (during the first three years of life) to have the development of their brain altered to the point where it does not function properly when it comes to responding to things, and the result can also involve inappropriate biochemical responses. (See www.zerotothree.org) If child who does not have the nurturing that builds all the right synapses can lose the potential to develop those correct connections and instead develop incorrect connections that can plague a person throughout his life in any number of ways, including affecting his immune system and response to stress.