This is the reason given for the pathologisation of many types. This is currently decided by the psychiatric hegemony and codified in revisions of psychiatric textbooks.
They hold sole power over what goes in and there is often resistance to anything like an open, democratic process. It takes powerful lobbyists, often paid by pharmaceutical companies but a few, like mind in the uk, are truly independent. Well...more so than any other organisation.
But how many types of people not extended the privilege of mental illness do worse off in life?
Lots and lots. Psychiatry applies its decision making power as society changes and with the whims of time. The excuse is often the prognosis. But so many other types face a similar prognosis.
Let me be the psychiatrist here and say that if there is a movement genuinely working for the betterment of these outcomes in purity rather than specifity to the applied diagnositic label, I.e. a true disability charity, then sign me up!
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