You just described being a bad person. Yes, billionaires are bad people. But being a bad person isn’t a mental disorder. That’s not what psychiatry is for.
The diagnosis of ASPD came from early psychiatrists working in insane asylums, describing patterns they saw in the patients. Wealthy politicians don’t get sent to mental institutions.
The diagnosis of ASPD was invented by doctors who wanted a model to help them improve the lives of their patients. You know, help them emotionally regulate so that they can function in society and get a job, instead of antagonising the police and being put in a prison. Wealthy politicians don’t need a doctor to help them with their people skills.
These harmful stereotypes about neurodivergent people happen when we start thinking like Batman writers. When we view mental disorders as a monster manual. Instead of what they really are, which is a model for helping people.
maybe. but imo extreme wealth hoarding is usually only possible/successful by people with little empathy who exploit others around them
Yes and it is disorder for sure. Their brain is missing something crucial.
You just described being a bad person. Yes, billionaires are bad people. But being a bad person isn’t a mental disorder. That’s not what psychiatry is for.
The diagnosis of ASPD came from early psychiatrists working in insane asylums, describing patterns they saw in the patients. Wealthy politicians don’t get sent to mental institutions.
The diagnosis of ASPD was invented by doctors who wanted a model to help them improve the lives of their patients. You know, help them emotionally regulate so that they can function in society and get a job, instead of antagonising the police and being put in a prison. Wealthy politicians don’t need a doctor to help them with their people skills.
These harmful stereotypes about neurodivergent people happen when we start thinking like Batman writers. When we view mental disorders as a monster manual. Instead of what they really are, which is a model for helping people.
thanks, you’re right. using the term ASPD does indeed seem wrong and harmful in this case.