HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Naomi Wolf, Biology Of Depression, Medical Model
31 Jan 2020
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Mental health: google: women outside, yoga, excersize, projects particular idea as to what it means to have mental health, people doing things together, belonging, tied to others. Thinking about mental illness: (none are universally correct: balance problem: yin/yang, bodily humours, chemical imbalance/neurotransmitter imbalance, Spiritual problem: problems related to faith, displeasing the gods, possession medication to fix it. Somatic(of the body) problem: chemical imbalance, issue of the brain, spinal fluid, result of inflammation in the body. Social problem: poverty, naomi wolf, pushed to edges of society, racial poverty, feminists argued high rates of eating disorders amongst women pressure to look like what society defines as beautiful. Source of mental illness within person themselves: psychopharmaceuticals, shock therapy. Behavioural model: thinking, learned behaviour, not about some internal conflict, about certain things were. Less brain focused more mind focused conditioned to feel and think and act, skinner.
