A useful article by Ben Goldacre pointing out the problems of the
biomedical interpretation and stigma. The evidence he's quoting I think
is specifically about severe mental health problems. There's limited
stigma with ADHD apart from the root stigma of behaviours that ends up
with it being pathologised. CAlling it an illness means there's a risk
of unpredictability. Calling is a problem that's based on a bad
childhood or whatever makes mental health problems less stigmatised
(again, I think we're taking about severe mental health problems rather
than ADHD). I'll have to chat to him one day about the biological types
theory, i.e. that there are different types of human biology that
develop through enivronmental factors to become a menta health
problem/illness in whatever time people ajudge certain behaviours or
emotuions to be abnormal.
The article's really useful because it points to links to some of the
research evidence he's basing his point on.
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