Is mental illness a social construct or biological fact
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Mental Health
2007-11-15 19:02:40
can be born that way
an accident and brain injury
mental or physical torture can drive people mad
traumatic experience
pysical illness and resulting brain injury
psycological stress
etc.
When it hurts when you burn yourself, is that a social construct, or biological fact? Emotional pain is pain too, and obviously hearing voices isn't a wonderful thing.
I believe its a social construct more than anything.
I think it is caused by a childhood issue. I also think anything tramatic in life such as a funeral in adulthood can cause mental illness.
The AMA considers it to be a biological fact.
Society can construct "attitudes" and "responses",etc. , but cannot alter the biology of the brain...yet.
that all depends on the type of mental illness. certain mental illness can be passed through genetics and depending on wether the mental illness is recessive or dominant and wether the mental condition is homo or heterozygous it can skip 1,2,3 or 4 or 100 generations and there are still many conditions that arent yet identified as either environmental or physical in structure. another q' that cannot really be answered in a small dialogue box on yahoo.
Having worked in the Medical Profession for over 30yrs one would think that I have a "medical opinion" on the matter but I think I can best sum it up that I believe it is both.