Medicalising Normal Behaviour

‘Stop medicalising pupils’ normal tensions and anxieties …

https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/stop-medicalising-pupils-normal-tensions-and-anxieties-mental-health-conditions

Children’s behaviour is constantly portrayed with a psychological label. Confused and insecure children are likely to be diagnosed as depressed or traumatised. Virtually any energetic or disruptive youngster can acquire the label of attention deficit …

The mental illness industry is medicalising normality

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/sep/06/mental-illness-medicalising-normality

As well as depression, this includes neural disorders such as dementia and Parkinson's; childhood problems from ADHD to "conduct disorder"; and the leading anxiety …

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Critics attack DSM-5 for overmedicalising normal human …

https://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e1020

Although not due to be published until May 2013, the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental …

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Does the DSM-5 medicalize normal behavior?

https://www.kevinmd.com/2010/09/dsm5-medicalize-normal-behavior.html

You might argue that life isn’t a bowl of cherries, and I’d agree with you. But then I’d point out that being somatically unhealthy is normal too. Allergies, acne, high …

Determining What Is Normal Behavior and What Is Not

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fighting-fear/201305/determining-what-is-normal-behavior-and-what-is-not

The concept of physical illness is readily understood: the body becomes infected or inflamed, or grows abnormally, or is affected in any number of ways, all of …

The many dangers of over-medicalising mental health

https://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j4305/rr-7

One only needs to look at the appalling mental health gap in so many countries - the lack of even basic mental health care for people suffering hugely with …

DSM-5 criticised for over-medicalising “normal behaviour”

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The DSM-5, to be published in May, defines shyness in children and uncertainty over gender as mental disorders. Loneliness could be diagnosed as chronic …

Defining Normal Behavior as Our Children …

https://www.healthyplace.com/parenting/challenge-of-difficult-children/how-kids-grow-defining-normal-behavior

Defining Normal Behavior as Our Children Grow Elaine Gibson If we know what to expect at each stage of development, it is easier to decide if our child's behavior is …