I would like to suggest that the diagnoses that exist at the psychological level refer to the conditions of rather rare or extreme individual cases. Would you agree on that?
This is because research and the economising of certain research activities reach the general public and (want to) present themselves there as a mass phenomenon so that the necessary funds for researching and answering very specific questions can continue to be pursued.
An example: There are always very few people who cannot walk, see or hear. The majority are not physically disabled. But in order to legitimise expensive research, it must be argued that the use of resources and finances benefits a majority, i.e. that technical progress can unfold to enable the walking-impaired, deaf or blind to live among those who have no such disability. So far so good. In great contradiction to this inclusive idea, however, is the prevention of disabled life, for example through prenatal genetic diagnostics, which contains the basic idea that no human being can be expected to have to live with someone who was born disabled.
The extent to which the prevention of physical or psychological problems can go can be seen in the fact that people who are not disabled are treated like sick people and that technological progress does not stop at healthy people.
Since the disabled minorities are never enough to make enough profit from their few cases, the many have to be convinced that they are also disabled/sick. But because no individual really likes to think or assume of themselves as sick, it must be the many others who are all sick or disabled. If one compares the number of people who are really extremely and acutely ill with the amount of money, buildings, structures and technology on the market, one must get the impression that it is majorities and not minorities.
But of course people can be hypnotised to the point that they think and act of themselves as sick. This could then indeed be considered an attention disorder where it is the pointed focus, not an attention deficit, but an attention excess on a particular thing. Is that what you meant by
hyperfocus on a task while full mania makes the person interested in following any that appears to the end regardless of what it is.
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I attribute the laser-like attention to certain topics to the strong division of labour in modern societies, which show an inability for a more open and broader way of looking at things, i.e. instead of a targeted spotlight, the broadly distributed light. Comparable to a dark room where you switch on the light to see the whole room instead of illuminating individual corners and points with a torch, which always lets you see only partial realities.
Autism seems to be a phenomenon of this civilisational process, because an individual does not need broad-based skills of a sensory and mental nature to make an income and live his or her life, because he or she is surrounded by fragmentary division of labour in which everyone can exercise the narrowed view of their reality without it seeming to do them any great harm. However, as soon as someone tries to break out of their specialisation and take on an a different track one will be faced with the problem which I compare with the biblical metaphor of the tower of Babel. You won't be understood when you act outside of your profession if you are not able to use a language which all people can understand.
In Psychology it is though well understood that the common language is "art". Including music making, painting, sculpting, singing, dancing, praying etc. which is able to heal people. Now, the problem is that "average" societal members are not artists and that an art therapy cannot be a proxy for a life of the individual who is otherwise living in a non artistic environment. Art for the sake of art degenerates into something meaningless while art connected with spirit (religion, philosophy) provides a superstructure to the otherwise un-oriented individual.
Would you agree that we seem to live in a time, where we use "laser focus" and over emphasize attention (seeking)? I very rarely hear and read the expression "let's wait and see." Instead, I see actionism and pressure on many fronts.
I have no idea what "gender dysphoria" means - I assume it has something to do with this topic being spread around the world and people are make believe that there must be interference instead of "wait and see" how a child develops.
Well I agree that some diagnosis of psychological problems is rare. Some are very common all the same and at the same time easy to malinger and the pharmaceuticals does benefit from this.
I hope we can lean into a world where see the chance to take on responsibility and handle it.