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<blockquote data-quote="Robert Eggleton" data-source="post: 62449" data-attributes="member: 3765"><p>titorite, A couple of decades ago, a national organization named the Association of Retarded Citizens (ARC), challened the mental health community to at least use a less insulting term than, "retarded." Advocacy groups came up with "People First" language (i.e. a person who is intellectually challenged; a woman with bipolar disorder, etc., instead of saying "I worked with a bipolar today...."). Terms like "challenged" or "special" were also proposed and adopted to some extent. After researching the impact of outlawing the term, "retardation" or "retarded," however, the ARC concluded that hundreds of thousands of people would lose eligibility for Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income based on disabilty if the term "retardation" would be abolished. This was because the American Psychiatric Association uses these terms as diagnoses and without a diagnosis the person would lose eligibility for benefits because the government requires a diagnosis to determine whether or not a person is able to support him or herself by working.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to vote mental or physical "diseases" out of existence. However, it is possible to reduce and eventually eliminate stigma associated with having cancer, AIDS, depression, etc. There are lots of problems with identifying a person as having a disease: misdiagnosis, over-diagnosis, insurance coverages, etc. Specifically with respect to mental health concerns, every proper diagnosis has a biological basis, the same as many physical diseases, such as high blood pressure. There are many instances of misdiagnosis with both physical and mental disorders. For example, my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer. It turned out that after a double mastectomy it was a different type of cancer and should have been treated differently.</p><p> </p><p>Unfortunately, mental health concerns, except for conduct disorder which shows up by a neurological scan and which is probably most often caused by a head injury, such as a car accident or during sports, cannot be verified with blood work. However, if one considers ADHD, for example, it is very simple to verify such a diagnosis, and to distinguish it from fetal alcohol syndrome which has almost the same symptoms. Many diseases, physical and mental, are genetic predispositions, which serves as an indicator of a preliminary diagnosis -- that's why your doctor asks about your family history when she sees you, or at least when you fill out a form to be seen. If a person with ADHD takes a stimulant, such as Adderral or Concerta, that person calms down. If a person diagnosed with ADHD and the medicine causes that person to be hyper, lose sleep, talk excessively, then the diagnosis was incorrect. Truck drivers can stay up all night to get their loads in on time if they take ADHD meds -- it's "speed." Persons with ADHD cannot get "high" on their meds, but persons without ADHD can. That's why ADHD meds are sometimes traded for marijuana.</p><p> </p><p>This sure is a long post, but you invited me to tell folks some about Lacy Dawn Adventure. Here goes:</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Rarity From the Hollow: A Lacy Dawn Adventure by Robert Eggleton <strong><strong>Author proceeds donated to prevent child abuse in West Virginia.</strong></strong></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Review by Adicus Ryan Garton (excerpt as intro)</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">“Imagine Wizard of Oz and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy smashed together and taking place in a hollow in the hills of West Virginia. Now you have an idea of what to expect when you sit down to read Rarity From the Hollow….” </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">…unabashed, unashamed exploration of the life of young Lacy Dawn, as she learns that she is the savior of the universe. The naked, genderless android, Dot-com… Add her abusive father, her weak-willed mother, a sexually-abused ghost for a best friend…trees that talk to her, a dog that can communicate telepathically with cockroaches and so much more.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">There is so much to this story, and its writing is so unblinkingly honest…spares us nothing…her father beating her and her mother, the emotions…the dark creeping insanity that eats away at her Iraq-veteran father, and the life in general of people too poor, too uneducated to escape. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">In part, it is a grueling exposition of what children endure when …abused. …the only way…to escape is to learn that she is the savior… strong, tough, smart—all those attributes that any child should have—and she reminds us that children are survivors, adaptive and optimistic. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">But don't think you're going to be reading something harsh and brutal and tragic. This book is laugh-out-loud funny at times, satiric of almost everything it touches upon…The characters from the hollow and from the planet Shptiludrp (the Mall of the Universe) are funny almost to the point of tears.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">...It's absolutely fantastic…."</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Adicus Ryan Garton is the editor of the online science fiction magazine Atomjack. He is currently teaching English in South Korea. </span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robert Eggleton, post: 62449, member: 3765"] titorite, A couple of decades ago, a national organization named the Association of Retarded Citizens (ARC), challened the mental health community to at least use a less insulting term than, "retarded." Advocacy groups came up with "People First" language (i.e. a person who is intellectually challenged; a woman with bipolar disorder, etc., instead of saying "I worked with a bipolar today...."). Terms like "challenged" or "special" were also proposed and adopted to some extent. After researching the impact of outlawing the term, "retardation" or "retarded," however, the ARC concluded that hundreds of thousands of people would lose eligibility for Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income based on disabilty if the term "retardation" would be abolished. This was because the American Psychiatric Association uses these terms as diagnoses and without a diagnosis the person would lose eligibility for benefits because the government requires a diagnosis to determine whether or not a person is able to support him or herself by working. It is not possible to vote mental or physical "diseases" out of existence. However, it is possible to reduce and eventually eliminate stigma associated with having cancer, AIDS, depression, etc. There are lots of problems with identifying a person as having a disease: misdiagnosis, over-diagnosis, insurance coverages, etc. Specifically with respect to mental health concerns, every proper diagnosis has a biological basis, the same as many physical diseases, such as high blood pressure. There are many instances of misdiagnosis with both physical and mental disorders. For example, my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer. It turned out that after a double mastectomy it was a different type of cancer and should have been treated differently. Unfortunately, mental health concerns, except for conduct disorder which shows up by a neurological scan and which is probably most often caused by a head injury, such as a car accident or during sports, cannot be verified with blood work. However, if one considers ADHD, for example, it is very simple to verify such a diagnosis, and to distinguish it from fetal alcohol syndrome which has almost the same symptoms. Many diseases, physical and mental, are genetic predispositions, which serves as an indicator of a preliminary diagnosis -- that's why your doctor asks about your family history when she sees you, or at least when you fill out a form to be seen. If a person with ADHD takes a stimulant, such as Adderral or Concerta, that person calms down. If a person diagnosed with ADHD and the medicine causes that person to be hyper, lose sleep, talk excessively, then the diagnosis was incorrect. Truck drivers can stay up all night to get their loads in on time if they take ADHD meds -- it's "speed." Persons with ADHD cannot get "high" on their meds, but persons without ADHD can. That's why ADHD meds are sometimes traded for marijuana. This sure is a long post, but you invited me to tell folks some about Lacy Dawn Adventure. Here goes: [SIZE=4][FONT=Courier New][FONT=Courier New]Rarity From the Hollow: A Lacy Dawn Adventure by Robert Eggleton [B][B]Author proceeds donated to prevent child abuse in West Virginia.[/B][/B][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Courier New][FONT=Courier New]Review by Adicus Ryan Garton (excerpt as intro)[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Courier New][FONT=Courier New]“Imagine Wizard of Oz and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy smashed together and taking place in a hollow in the hills of West Virginia. Now you have an idea of what to expect when you sit down to read Rarity From the Hollow….” [/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Courier New][FONT=Courier New]…unabashed, unashamed exploration of the life of young Lacy Dawn, as she learns that she is the savior of the universe. The naked, genderless android, Dot-com… Add her abusive father, her weak-willed mother, a sexually-abused ghost for a best friend…trees that talk to her, a dog that can communicate telepathically with cockroaches and so much more.[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Courier New][FONT=Courier New]There is so much to this story, and its writing is so unblinkingly honest…spares us nothing…her father beating her and her mother, the emotions…the dark creeping insanity that eats away at her Iraq-veteran father, and the life in general of people too poor, too uneducated to escape. [/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Courier New][FONT=Courier New]In part, it is a grueling exposition of what children endure when …abused. …the only way…to escape is to learn that she is the savior… strong, tough, smart—all those attributes that any child should have—and she reminds us that children are survivors, adaptive and optimistic. [/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Courier New][FONT=Courier New]But don't think you're going to be reading something harsh and brutal and tragic. This book is laugh-out-loud funny at times, satiric of almost everything it touches upon…The characters from the hollow and from the planet Shptiludrp (the Mall of the Universe) are funny almost to the point of tears.[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Courier New][FONT=Courier New]...It's absolutely fantastic…."[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Courier New][FONT=Courier New]Adicus Ryan Garton is the editor of the online science fiction magazine Atomjack. He is currently teaching English in South Korea. [/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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