Mad about psychology and psychiatry/ Going mental at Psy..

I´ve felt let down by most school psychologists. They have lacked serious knowledge and expertise about their subject matter. I remember having donated hundreds of copies of Journals of Child Psychology and Psychiatry only to find they were to be thrown into the wpb....

"Severe mental illness has troubled the history of Psychiatry. Researchers  have explored the brain’s anatomy in an attempt to identify the origins of mental disorders. The studies ultimately proved fruitless, and their failure produced a split in the field. Some psychiatrists sought nonbiological causes, including psychoanalytic ones, for mental disorders. Others doubled down on the biological approach and “increasingly pursued a hodgepodge of theories and projects, many of which, in hindsight, look both ill-considered and incautious.” The split is still evident today.
The history of mental disease is a series of pendulum swings. in the last two centuries touted breakthroughs disappoint, discredited dogmas give rise to counter-dogmas, treatments are influenced by the financial interests of the pharmaceutical industry, and real harm is done to patients and their loved ones."

Snipped, copied and tweaked from  Mental illness by Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker  May 2019.

 As a child I was the victim of a psychiatrist Dr. Guija in Seville  in the early 1960´s who administered drugs which were to have serious effects on my mind for the rest of my life:(Synergina & Huberplex).
He was just one in a series of psychiatrists I had to visit on a regular pilgrimage for no obvious reason at all..

Overdiagnosis: the most common disorders I´ve found in my students are a series of acronyms:

(Find out more about each item)

ADHD/ ADD

 O.C.D. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder  

G.A.D. Generalized Anxiety Disorder

 S.A.D. Seasonal Affective Disorder

SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Child abused

 Impulse Control Disorders (Kleptomaniac/Pyromaniac/etc..) 

P.T.S.D. 

Eating disorders (Anorexia & Bulimia)

 Mood Disorders 

Psychotic disorders  

Bipolar  affective disorder (B.A.D.)

Borderline/Limit personality disorder

Major Depression 

Schizoid Personality

Paranoid Personality  

Psychopath 

Sociopath

Specific phobias (name at least ten common phobias)

Remember no one is immune and there is great difficulty in establishing who is 99% sane.

Name two more common syndromes present in our daily interaction.