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NPR talking about Aspergers as if it were a mental illness
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 569304" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Also around here especially parents of kids with ADHD or autism spectrum always tend to get agitated if those neurological things are even mentioned together with mental health issues. Some have even huge problems with the fact that in some hospitals psychiatrists and not neurologists (that is more common here) treat those conditions and for example prescribe ADHD medications for their kids. I have never really understood why. Is asperger kid somehow more acceptable or better than kid with mental health issues?</p><p></p><p>I don't know if you have a same concept we have with psychiatric conditions there bipolar and schizophrenia are considered actual mental illnesses and other conditions are just mental health problems. If you consider those two 'actual' mental illnesses, the biggest difference to these neurological conditions we are talking about is, that onset is usually later. Onset of classic autism is usually shortly after one year, ADHD can be reliably diagnosed few years older, same with asperger. Schizophrenia usually has an onset on late teens or early adulthood, bipolar has wider variety of onset ages. Others can be medicated, but not cured, autism spectrum doesn't at least yet have medication. All of them are highly hereditary, but environmental factors play also some part at least on some. They are all related to our neurobiology. I just don't see that big differences. Especially if you consider those other mental health problems that may have some hereditary components often have huge environmental factors, some can't even exist without certain environmental factors (for example one can be genetically immune or more prone to PTSD, but most people have the genes to get it, if one does or doesn't end up with it in some point of their lives depends totally from environmental factors.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 569304, member: 14557"] Also around here especially parents of kids with ADHD or autism spectrum always tend to get agitated if those neurological things are even mentioned together with mental health issues. Some have even huge problems with the fact that in some hospitals psychiatrists and not neurologists (that is more common here) treat those conditions and for example prescribe ADHD medications for their kids. I have never really understood why. Is asperger kid somehow more acceptable or better than kid with mental health issues? I don't know if you have a same concept we have with psychiatric conditions there bipolar and schizophrenia are considered actual mental illnesses and other conditions are just mental health problems. If you consider those two 'actual' mental illnesses, the biggest difference to these neurological conditions we are talking about is, that onset is usually later. Onset of classic autism is usually shortly after one year, ADHD can be reliably diagnosed few years older, same with asperger. Schizophrenia usually has an onset on late teens or early adulthood, bipolar has wider variety of onset ages. Others can be medicated, but not cured, autism spectrum doesn't at least yet have medication. All of them are highly hereditary, but environmental factors play also some part at least on some. They are all related to our neurobiology. I just don't see that big differences. Especially if you consider those other mental health problems that may have some hereditary components often have huge environmental factors, some can't even exist without certain environmental factors (for example one can be genetically immune or more prone to PTSD, but most people have the genes to get it, if one does or doesn't end up with it in some point of their lives depends totally from environmental factors.) [/QUOTE]
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