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When society makes us sick, should we then allow “specialists” to blame us, and call us “patients” with “mental illnesses”?

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Coronavirus poses a challenge to psychiatric and psychological diagnoses of anxiety and depression

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Promoting an article from the ‘Mad in America’ blog:

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COVID-19 Challenges Our Faulty Assumptions About Normative Wellbeing

Lucy Johnstone addresses how limitations to models for psychological health and treatment have been spotlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic–which may not be a bad thing.

By

Sadie Cathcart

September 21, 2020

In a manuscript recently accepted to BJPsych Bulletin, released in a pre-print format, psychologist Lucy Johnstone calls for a drastic shift in the discourse surrounding wellbeing in the context of COVID-19. She writes that the conceptualization of the COVID-19 pandemic as parallel yet separate from an epidemic of “mental health” has the effect of minimizing appreciation for contextual determinants of distress. According to Johnstone:

“In the current jargon, popular in both psychology and psychiatry, we need a [re]formulation – a shift from ‘patient with illness’ to ‘person with a problem.’”

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For more, please click this link: COVID-19 Challenges Our Faulty Assumptions About Normative Wellbeing.***

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