There is something innately wrong with any study of humanity that pigeonholes. They reject the dynamic nature of human individuals. The ability to change, adapt, grow, mature and alter their opinions and behavior.
The trend in psychology to classify every set of behaviors as an illness or mental disorder.
The presupposition is that a psychologist knows what “order” a person’s mind is supposed to be in in the first place.
How about I come to your house and tell you how to order your bookshelves, your kitchen, and tell you how you ought to be running your life.
The simple fact is that MY standard of order is very much different to yours. And nobody has the right, or the ability to impose their standard upon me. Telling me what’s “normal” and what’s not. Telling me what’s right and wrong so that I mesh neatly into their little categories of INTJ OR INTP. Well, they can take that Jungian bullshit and jam it up their dogmatic asses.
Last time I spoke to someone about the Myers Briggs test I likened it to astrology… boy you should have seen the reaction (and frantic attempts to defend their position). I’m not buying it.
Fancy telling someone that their behavior is abnormal, and that they’ve got a “mental disorder” and stick it with them for the rest of their lives. And imagine telling someone that on the basis that they’ve taken a VOTE on how to classify a set of behaviors, in order to apply this label. They simply got in a room (behind closed doors mind you) and simply said: “All for?” and “All against?” then decided your fate. Now you’re Bipolar/Alcoholic/ADHD/Autistic or whatever.
They’re fucking criminals. Deluding people who are having trouble into thinking they’re powerless and then prescribing them drugs to “fix” them.
Let me make this clear:
YOU’RE NOT BROKEN!
Sure, you might have some problems but 99% of the time they’re nothing a bit of deep thought, reflection and some honest/rational analysis of your beliefs, then some self discipline cannot fix.
You’ve got the power to change yourself. You don’t need an authority to tell you bullshit stories and “diagnose” you with something. If you buy in to that shit you’ll spend the rest of your life being a victim. And honestly, how the absolute fuck does a mental health professional justify “helping” someone by creating a victim mentality within them.
It seriously fucking dumbfounds me how completely idiotic the entire field is.
Here are some references for you if you want to learn about REAL mental health and stability:
http://www.arachnoid.com/psychology/ (This entire site is awesome… read it… now)
The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology (a rational and scientific look at psychology focusing on the REAL methods of obtaining self esteem without silly medication and relying on others)
http://drhurd.com/bad-therapy-good-therapy-excerpt/ (a clearly defined way to identify frauds and charlatans in the mental health industry)
http://www.darkbuddhism.com/ (a combination of Objectivism & Buddhism… with none of the crap)