"Pathologizing Everyday Life" by T. Wasserman and L.D. Wasserman talked about how there has been an increase in diagnosing a mental illness on everyday occurrences. In this article it points out how the medicalization of mental health is concerning because of how it is viewed by society. A person needs to be fixed with prescription drugs and therapy, but is this only a Western way of thinking? It also talks about how professionals approach mental health therapies. Different cultures treat mental illness in different ways that may not be the same standard as to that of western cultures. Does this mean that it is the wrong way or the primitive way to treat a health issue?
In my opinion this article dismisses mental health as trivial and that people make mental health up. I agree that other cultures have their own way to cope and treat mental illnesses, but I do not agree that we should generalize mental health issues to "everyday life". It makes it so that people with mental illnesses feel as though their mental health has been invalidated. I think this article needs a bit work considering it is insensitive to the fact that mental health is not a trivial matter and it should be regarded the same as a physical health issue.
Question: Does mental health therapies in different cultures have the same results as in western cultures?
References:
Wasserman, T., & Wasserman, L. D. (2016). Pathologizing everyday life. In Depathologizing Psychopathology (pp. 7-12). Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
B. (2017, February 21). Allies for Mental Health Positivity. Retrieved May 07, 2017, from http://affinitymagazine.us/2017/02/21/allies-for-mental-health-positivity/
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