Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness Dr. Lucy Foulkes

Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness Dr. Lucy Foulkes – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781250274175,9781250274182,1250274176,1250274184

Product details:
• ISBN 10: 1250274184
• ISBN 13: 9781250274182
• Author: Dr. Lucy Foulkes

Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of how to define it has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with the inherent stresses and challenges of human experience. A narrative has taken hold that a mental health crisis has been building among young people. In this profoundly sensitive and constructive book, psychologist Lucy Foulkes argues that the crisis is one of ignorance as much as illness. Have we raised a ‘snowflake’ generation? Or are today’s young people subjected to greater stress, exacerbated by social media, than ever before? Foulkes shows that both perspectives are useful but limited. The real question in need of answering is: how should we distinguish between ‘normal’ suffering and actual illness?

Table contents:

1. Rising Rates

2. On a Continuum

3. Moving Goalposts

4. Biology

5. Environment

6. Adolescence

7. Social Media

8. Rethinking the Crisis

9. Language Matters

10. Expert Help

11. Helping Each Other and Ourselves

People also search:

losing our minds book

a mental challenge

a mental health challenge

this is what mental illness looks like

mental illness challenges

closing of mental institutions in america