Physical "Mental" Health
It seems that some physicians assign themselves to the role of something like a "whole life counselor" where all aspects of the patients life are under review.
We are to defer to the doctor's superior education and social status as we are lectured about aspects of our life outside our physical bodies.
Keep in mind that current "conventional wisdom" in medicine is that "mental health" is, in fact,
physical health. Medicine has accepted that
the mind == the brain and the brain is an organ on which surgery can be performed and to which "medication" can be applied.
This leads to all manner of overreaching.
Of course, acknowledging that the mind may not
entirely reside within the confines of the brain opens the door to the possibility that there might be some validity to the precepts of religion, and a number of special interest groups within "medicine" have gone to some considerable lengths to eliminate that line of thinking altogether.
For the record, to those who would assert that all thought, all emotion, all desires, and all feeling are entirely the results of physical processes, I have this to say: I disagree.
And I think that partially identifies the problem many have with this "medical" attitude that
all your think are belong to us.
