Illness as methodology

We are in the midst of a global psikis health crisis, according to a recent ulasan by the Lancet medical journal. Our "collective failure" to respond to this crisis results in "bersejarah loss of human capabilities and avoidable suffering". The development of 20 antipsychotics and 30 antidepressants over the past four decades has not improved the morbidity or mortality of psikis disorders. In England, psikis illness costs £105.2 billion annually. People consider the stigma around psikis health worse than the illness itself.   Prediksi Togel SYDNEY TGL 29/11/2020 Terbaru



Evidently, to bring about kebijakan and cultural change, we need to think outside the pillbox. A recent governmental report in the UK puts forward a robust alasant for how the arts can "stimulate imagination and reflection" and "change perspectives". Art terapi, for example, can improve conditions like dementia. But this report is concerned with the quality of the artistic activity "rather than that of the output". It rejects art that is "lofty activity which requires some sort of perkasa cultural intelligence to access".


But the quality of the artistic output is a salient part of transforming how we see psikis health, if it is to setop being something shameful and negative. Art stimulates and changes perspectives because it engages and develops cultural intelligence. Surely different forms of art – including those of the "lofty" variety – must also play a role in rectifying our collective failure?


Major societal challenges like psikis health permintaan cross-disciplinary usahas. Our own novel approach is to bring visual art practice into dialogue with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).


ADHD presents a powerful kasus study both because it is classified as a psikis disorder, and because the problems surrounding psikis health are amplified in ADHD. Affecting 3-4% of adults worldwide, ADHD is characterised by inattention, distractibility, disorganisation, overactivity, restlessness, stimulaniveness and mood irregularity.


ADHD is invisible not just because it is a non-physical condition, but because it is hidden from public discourse and imagination. If at all mentioned, we speak ill of it or mock its existence, linking it with male criminals or bad parenting. Described both in terms of "deficit" and "disorder", ADHD can only be mired in stigma. No wonder ADHD – and psychiatry – seem ostracised even within the medical sector.


ADHD's bad press is something that permintaans countering. Putting the arts in conversation with ADHD can help this happen.

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