What point is there in any other perspective apart from the biomedical one?

So in mental health there are more paradigms and perspectives than in any other science. The prevailing one is the biomedical perspective because it's what the power holders, doctors, believe in. Throughout their training they're taught that mental illness is a biological problem to be treated biologically. In their profession this dogma is beginning to change somewhat with the acceptance of the possibility of CBT as a useful treatment for a supposedly biological problem but in the main the understanding of the medical profession as a whole is still biological cause.

Well of course there's a point. There's the point of truth. The point is the people with the power aren't interested in the truth. I think psychiatrists inevitably do have to understand the different paradigms and perspectives. It may make staying in their profession very difficult. Each may have thier own justification for why it's not a system of enforcement of norms and social judgements rather than anything to do with medicine alternatively they may justify the need for this form of social control to be done by doctors.

Outside the psychiatric profession everything from depression to schizophrenia to any of the little know 'illnesses', for example biastophilia, are understood as biologically caused illnesses. A more advanced definition may be mental 'diseases' which a person has no control over.

Then there's the sociological and anthropological persppective. To me it's the most significant and from it can be pulled lots of examples to show it's nothing like a genuine illness though the science can be applied to justify it as an illness. I would be fascinated to see the study which justifies homosexulaity or drapteomania as a mental illness using the same techniques as are used for ADHD or other modern supposed illnesses caused by biological deficit (rather than difference) and treated with chemicals rather than acceptance of difference.

But whatever. It doesn't really matter. Doctors who used lobotomies have degrees. Doctors who unnecessarily electrocuted people have degrees. Doctors who masturbated women have degrees. Doctors who killed 1,800 old people every year when they used antipsychotics on them have degrees in medicine.

They have the power and they can dismiss the 'lay' perspective that they are breaking the Hippocratic Oath, the one they take when they become doctors, and by doing so no longer have the privilege of status of a healer who does no harm. They are the same as prison guards or Stalin's secret police (NKVD?).

They twist science to justify what they do but they're destroying the human race's potential, allowing societies malformation to get worse and they're fucking cunts. Same goes for a lot of mental health campaigns that don't tackle societal change or rely on biomedical bullshit.

They can all suck on my chocolate salty balls.