HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mental Disorder, Pyromania, Mania

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1CC3
• Professor: Mat Savelli

Document Summary

Mental illness has a social value - we use in society. Homosexuality use to be a diagnosable mental disorder (changed in. What counts as mental illness in the past is not the same as what it is now. We are trained culturally to think about science progressing in specific way. Better to image mental health as a moving target (constantly changing) Way we define something (e. g. , bipolar disorder) changes. Hyper activity is now a mental health problem. Some see source of mental health problem as being about physical organ of brain. Some people this is solid progress but for some this is a step back. If search up you get photos of women doing things outside. Or we get photos of people together doing things. Points to fact that when we identify good mental health it is about social relationships. Mental illness does not exist unless someone else identifies it as such. Mental health and mental illness are contested terms.