"An MSN-PMHNP program prepares nurses to deliver a full spectrum of care to patients with psychiatric disorders, organic brain disorders, and substance abuse issues."
This is from a webpage advertising a university's program in nursing. Note the distinction between "psychiatric disorders" and "organic brain disorders"- as if psychiatric disorders are not from the brain but are personality flaws- they are inorganic and therefore not as viable and true as an organic brain disorder. Moreover, organic disorders are something we cannot control and psychiatric disorders are due to the lack of the ability to control one's environment!
This just irks me. As a friend who is a behavioral pharmacologist- he studies brain drugs- once told me "You ARE your brain!" I have never forgotten this. Indeed we are one with our brains. They control everything about is and make us who we are whether we know it or whether we like it. It is. We are. Our brains. It's simple. Without our brains we cease to exist. Those of us with bipolar disorder just have that extra "twist" to our neurons. That special something that 1% of the population have been blessed with. I AM my brain- in all its organic and chemical wonders!
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