beyond the myths and stigma of mental illness

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/25/rd-laing-aaron-esterson-mental-illness

This article is about how the mental disease or mental disorders, in this case schizophrenia, has been diagnostics for decades without the contemplation of the family and social context.

The text try to go beyond the myths and stigma of mental illness, and talk about how the mental patients has been confined in mental institutions and has been obligated to take strong drugs as a unique treatment, even the article mention how the mental patients in some moments of history were seen as possessed persons.

The author tells us about how in some cases the mental disease is not only in the patient but as well in its family. It shows the case of patients that were diagnostics of schizophrenia without the consideration of their family context and finally there was the trouble, not only in the patient's but well in their parents.

It is a big problem in the diagnostics of mental health, is impossible to diagnostic a patient with a mental disorder just for its own problems, the professional has to consider how the familiar and social world in which one the patients live and is very important to consider how a psychiatric diagnostic can affect the lives of a patients and it family.

Finally we can not talk about mental disease just talking about biology; the mental diseases are associated to pathological families or sick societies.