It's Important to be an idiot and ask some tough questions of mental health

Val's Note:  Simon Sinek's video to the right is a dangerous video for me to post because I think often people don't know what I'm trying to say -- or if they do --- they're not open to it.

I am open to QUESTIONS.  I'm open to HARD QUESTIONS.

Having said that, part of what I'm trying to say is that the need for CERTAINTY has to be BALANCED against the NEED FOR REASONABLENESS --- and that is a MOVING TARGET BASED ON CURRENT KNOWLEDGE.

That KNOWLEDGE is experiencing a MAJOR FLOOD of INFORMATION --- I'm not aware of anyone who is "COMPLETELY ON TOP OF IT."

What are the RAMIFICATIONS of this for VICTIMS, DEFENDANTS and PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS in the CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.

To me, you prioritize SAFETY and then you work on improving that PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH to CRIMINAL JUSTICE ---
Olmstead Planning could be a big help with that.

Dr. Thomas Insel led the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002-2015.

   "The weakness is its lack of validity. Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure.

"In the rest of medicine, this would be equivalent to creating diagnostic systems based on the nature of chest pain or the quality of fever.

"Indeed, symptom-based diagnosis, once common in other areas of medicine, has been largely replaced in the past half century as we have understood that symptoms alone rarely indicate the best choice of treatment.

​"Patients with mental disorders deserve better.  

NIMH has launched the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project to transform diagnosis by incorporating genetics, imaging, cognitive science, and other levels of information to lay the foundation for a new classification system."

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/directors/thomas-insel/blog/2013/transforming-diagnosis.shtml

THE REAL WORLD

Unfortunately, Criminal Justice and the rest of Society cannot wait for the National Institute of Mental Health to complete RDoC (NIMH'S seemingly responsible and reasonable response to a scientifically invalid DSM.)

BUT those QUESTIONS about a scientifically invalid DSM ---- HAVEN'T GONE AWAY.

Simon Sinek
It's Important to be an Idiot

Great Flood --- Noah & the Ark

Today we are facing a FLOOD OF INFORMATION.

Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director of the National Institutes of Health (2002-2008 Bush Administration); Served as a Presidential Science Envoy under the Obama Administration.

Neuroinformatics

Celebrating a Decade of Neuroscience Databases: Looking to the Future of High-Throughput Data Analysis, Data Integration, and Discovery Neuroscience (2004)

“The explosion of data about the brain is overwhelming conventional ways of making sense of it," said Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health.

"Like the Human Genome Project, the Human Brain Project is building shared databases in standardized digital form, integrating information from the level of the gene to the level of behavior. These resources will ultimately help us better understand the connection between brain function and human health.”

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26354128/
Information overload in healthcare: too much of a good thing?

The rapidly growing production of healthcare information - both scientific and popular - increasingly leads to a situation of information overload affecting all actors of the healthcare system and threatening to impede the adoption of evidence-based practice.

Interim Procedures

Lawyers and the rest of the Society need to start asking some HARD QUESTIONS about how a scientifically invalid DSM is playing out in the Criminal Justice System.