Olivia Bridges
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I attended the last lecture for the madness series. I cannot remember the name of the speaker but I believe that he is actually the professor of the class. The lecture was called an existentialist approach to madness. While the speaker covered a variety of topics such as Freud and his breakthrough to treat people with mental illnesses as people and get to the root of their trauma rather than treating them like criminals and burdens. The part of the lecture that stood out to me the most was the myth of mental illness. The notion that mental illness is a metaphor and not an actual medical condition, which is why the medical model is incorrect when approaching mental illness. However, I\u2019m not entirely sure how I feel about that idea. As an individual who has struggled with mental illness my entire life this upset me. I have been told my entire life that my anxiety is because of a chemical imbalance in my brain. From what I gather in my notes the speaker is implying that anxiety is caused by those who are aware of their own existence. And while I can see the argument that anxiety worsens when one is not distracted because that is certainly true and part of the reason I struggles so much last semester, my anxiety and depression started long before I was aware of my own existence. It is something I have struggled with my entire life, I was put on medication as young as ten years old and had significant anxiety before then. Probably as early as first grade. It made me feel like my medical condition was being dismissed. The only thing that allowed to me to not be ashamed of my anxiety and depression is because doctors and my parents told me it is a medical condition. One in which I cannot control because it is a chemical imbalance. Yes medication does make me feel better and yes there is not a cure, but mental illness is an illness. I do agree that humans are anxious beings but that shouldn\u2019t take away from others experiences. I have suffered greatly because of my mental illness, sometimes it feels like dying. I understand that mental illness cannot be understood purely on the medical model but it is a medical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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