[asveikau]

> The Myth of Mental Illness

Having been close to a few people with psychotic disorders (I'm not misusing that term, I mean paranoid delusions, hallucinations, ...), this rubs me the wrong way. A mild case of depression may be safe to approach this way but with serious psychiatric problems that is dangerous.

The author wrote a book saying schizophrenia doesn't exist, and was made up by psychiatrists. While it's probably true that it's a blanket term for what are probably multiple causes or possibly more of a spectrum disorder, I have seen schizophrenia up close. It would be foolish to say it doesn't exist, in that there are millions of suffering people in existence who fit the symptom criteria and benefit from treatment.

You also need to be careful about people who advocate this position because some of them are affiliated with cults.