Mental health awareness

How does the analogy hold ? And what is meant by intervention ?

 

If you have substandard vision and need glasses or contacts or even reading glasses, you are not stigmatized as "abnormal." Same with hearing Aids, cochlear implants ect.

If a person with ADD or depression or anxiety needs drugs, or therapy, or lifestyle changes, that too shouldn't be stigmatizing.

 

I can see the analogy holding if it involved comfort or even caring confrontation enabling a sufferer to “see” the world in right perspective.

 

What is the "right" perspective? I have read hundreds of books on psychology and philosophy and I have no idea what that means.

 

Depends on the situation wouldn’t you think ? What would you do with, say, a paranoid person ? How about a person afraid to leave the house ? How about a person conveying suicidal thoughts ? Or would you just drug them ?

 

I didn't say "just drug" them. But drugs might be one way of addressing the problem.

 

Or a way of exacerbating the problem. But taking a pill is certainly easier than the hard work of dehabituation-rehabituation or the hard work of helping with such.