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

Book by Roy Richard Grinker · 2 quotes · Illness, Culture, Diagnosis

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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

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“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

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