Models matter

All of the coercive powers of the mental health system are inextricably bound to the biomedical model of mental illness.

The biopsychosocial or social models are the accepted modern construction of mental illness but guess what? It's no longer a medical illness.

The biopsychosocial model is what's considered the best model of mental illness according to the mainstream medical power holders, eg NICE. The model is actually a description of how every human type and variation comes to be. Three domains - biological, psychological and social - are the causes behind every person on the planet's individuality.

The labelling of some of this inalienable diversity is still justified by the concept of prognosis: the mentally ill will have a worse life. The problem is the model no longer describes a true medical issue and therefore there isn't the power of coercion.

The best model is the social model of disability and an unwritten system to simplify and manage the vagaries of emotions.

This is radically different to the original construct of the biomedical model. It is a fundamental paradigm shift.

In fact, the social model of disability is ideologically similar to the drive towards human diversity as a paramount priority as important as human equality.

The social model favours the unreasonable treatment paradigm of changing the environment to reduce the prognosis - the concept almost or totally synonymous with disability? - rather than homogenization as was the mainstay treatment model in the last century and millennia come to think of it. Well, apart from the occasional injection of a social model message from some schizophrenic or other.

Anyway, models matter and mental health professionals haven't caught up.
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