John Sjhepard
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Psychiatrists and big pharma seemed to want half the U.S. population doped up on meds. So to them what is a normal human?
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What is normal?
Psychiatrists and big pharma seemed to want half the U.S. population doped up on meds. So to them what is a normal human?
That's mostly due to professional, economic, and competitive move by psychiatry. After all, most clinical psychologists are better trained and disagree with the fundamental tenets of psychiatrists, these fundamentals have not only failed decades of tests, but these experiments have indicated the opposite of the original assumptions underlying modern psychiatry (defined when psychiatry used the creation of the DSM-III to create the biomedical model of mental health). However, clinical psychology is a fundamental component of the mental health field (so are MSWs and other clinical professionals).Psychiatrists and big pharma seemed to want half the U.S. population doped up on meds.
Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). The weirdest people in the world?. Behavioral and brain sciences, 33(2-3), 61-83.So to them what is a normal human?
I'd put "normal" in the middle....with a bigger middle than this...The 68% that hover around the top of the bell curve.
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Your graph resembles the item used for IQ display.I'd put "normal" in the middle....with a bigger middle than this...
Not being normal can be a good thing sometimes.Your graph resembles the item used for IQ display.
so...high end IQ isn't normal?
I suppose not.
but that equates normal to average.
Psychiatrists and big pharma seemed to want half the U.S. population doped up on meds. So to them what is a normal human?
Normal is essentially a statistical average. The closer to the mean you are the more "normal". It's actually not even an operational definition really, not some subjective philosophical concept like people think. At the mean you can function in life and go about things with relative ease. The farther from normal in an context the more likely to have positive/negative effects. Once those effects get in the way and cause dysfunction, we have a psychological disorder. So someone with severe depression is going to be far from the mean in most variables and have trouble functioning in the world, and so medication and therapy are recommended. Without statistical means we couldn't help, well, anyone. To get rid of the concept of "normal" would leave dysfunctional people helpless.
Edit: the posts in this thread are... soul crushing. Stop commenting when you have no idea people.
soul crushing?
and your avatar is .....what?
(just poking fun....no malintent)
I've long accepted that the notion of "normal" doesn't exist in the first place. What's always thought of as "normal" is simply what's familiar.
Normal is generally decided by the society in which you live
Normal. adjective.
1. moralistic and pseudo-scientific jargon which means anything you expect a person to do without them liking it. use of the term in this context means a person establishes their authority on the basis of peer pressure whilst desperately trying to conceal their extreme prejudice and complete ignorance of the subject based on the expectation that, inspite of such ignorance, these should be used as moral standards by which everyone else should be judged and expect compliance. The attribution of "normal" ussually has no proven relation to actual human behaviour and often therefore determintal to the interests of the person concerned.
Context: "This is perfectly normal. I don't know what you are talking about."
2. a derogatory insult or term of abuse, often employed by teenagers or infantilsed adults, as a measure of inner impoverishment by social standards of "goodness" and "nicencess". Often carries an inverse moral evaluation that wreckless, dangerous and illegal behaviour is desirable or "cool". use of this insult is common in societies based on consumerism in which instant gratification and sensationalism lead to potentially excessive expectations of fulfillment and in which a person who martyrs themselves in the pursuit of such fulfillment establishes high social esteem.
Context: "You're just so normal! I want to be like that guy!"
3. A state of relative tranquility and anonymity after a crisis that is often not as bad a people think based on the assumption that such a crisis was exceptional.
Context: "Its good things have gone back to normal"
There is no such thing as being normal, normal is just what a society wants you to be, as long as you follow what society wants, then you are labelled as normal.
Normality is a descriptive of statistics, specifically those around the average. Imagine of we left mentally handicapped individuals fend for themselves since "there's no normal" (and therefore no abnormal). .
That is true...statistically, but normal is defined as conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected..... what is typical, or expected in one society or culture is not necessarily typical, or expected in another therefore what is considered normal in one society of culture can be considered abnormal in another.
What's usual, typical, or expected is decided upon by statistics. How else would you know what's usual and what's not?