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“. . . illnesses that derive from the stresses of war come in many different forms. Every war has its own syndromes.”

War Stress Illness Symptoms

Book:Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Source: Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

“. . . mental illness categories are just temporary names or frameworks to help us understand patterns of behavior that cause suffering.”

Suffering Culture Names Mental Illness Frameworks

Book:Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Source: Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

“The value of any diagnosis is what it has to offer the sufferer.”

Suffering Mental Health Diagnosis

Book:Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Source: Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

“. . . PTSD, and other illness terms as well, have become a way of claiming a right to legitimate pain and misfortune. It is as if, without the illness label, their anguish wouldn't be valid, and they wouldn't be granted a passport to what Susan Sontag once called citizenship in 'the kingdom of the sick.' [However, it is] only some realms in that kingdom [that] offer a refuge from the stigma of mental illnesses: the diseases that come to us from the outside, apparently through no fault of our own, like PTSD and the enigmatic Gulf War syndrome (GWS).”

Pain Mental Health Illness Trauma Labels Sickness Ptsd Stigma

Book:Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Source: Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

“Dividing human differences into distinct illnesses is like dividing up the color spectrum into distinct colors. While most of us can easily tell the difference between yellow and orange, we probably can't agree on exactly where yellow ends and orange begins because there is no single point at which one becomes the other. Similarly, the border between health and sickness is the judgment call we make about whether a person's symptoms are impairing their lives and warrant treatment.”

Health Illness Sickness Symptoms Spectrum Diagnosis

Book:Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Source: Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

“. . . military psychologists tell me that the best practitioners in their field are those trained in child psychiatry; eighteen- and nineteen-year-old men are, in the clinician's view, still children.”

Age Psychology Military Development Psychiatry Child Psychology Military Psychology

Book:Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Source: Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

“. . .the reality is that sex has been fixed for only two centuries of the long history of Western civilization, and a number of non-Western societies have, for generations, recognized three, four, or five sexes, and with little or no stigma.”

Sex Civilization Stigma Western Civilization

Book:Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Source: Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

“. . . symptoms of mental illnesses are inevitably local.”

Culture Mental Illness Symptomatology

Book:Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Source: Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness