DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mad Pride, Biology Of Depression, Thomas Szasz

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Jenna Reid

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Self-identity: mad identified = mad pride. Gave sense as people who were consuming the mental health system had purchasing power of the mental health services. People with lived experience (pwle): have experience with mental illness/mental system: but almost everybody has some sort of experience so term is kind of broad. Serotonin/ssri: a neurotransmitter to regulate mood, sexuality, sleeping, eating. etc. (i. e. regulates serotonin levels in the brain) Hysteria became accepted diagnosis for all women due to the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and menopause. Lunacy luna, a roman goddess of the moon; reflects associated of mental illness with the moon cycle: moon alters people"s brain chemistry. Harvey milk gay city councillor shot to death: twinkie defense of the person who shot harvey the person had a lot of twinkies and so was not in a stable mind set. Correlation between good diet and good health.