Hi there, new to Steem, don't really to get how it works yet but seems a great platform to share some ideas. I am a counselling psychologist who finds the medicalisation of life an increasing dilemma. I also believe it is mental health practitioners and the system that are making society and individuals "hysterical".

Often, my professional peers and the wider medical profession are labelling resilience as depression and and appropriate emotional responses as "abnormal" or "disordered".

As stated I am new to the forum, however have posted I short blog and am planning house Steem as a platform for questioning the way we do "mental health" in Australia and also examine the role of the professionals within it. The underlying theme to the blogs will cut to the very legitimacy of my professional field. I will argue that whilst psychologists and psychiatrists position themselves as "experts" on the workings of the mind and well-being, it is actually us that are making our clients mentally unwell. The assumption governments and policy makers are going on is that Psychologists and Psychiatry are minimising and containing the ever increasing mental health of society. What if, however, they are the very ones increasing the disordered within the Australian population, costing billions of dollars to government instead of saving money. More importantly, what if the very profession that is seen as vital in the solution to people's happiness are actually inadvertently but naively the ones causing Mass Hysteria.

Thanks for reading.