This post is an excerpt from the concluding chapter of The Elements of Cure, which articulates and explores the basic concepts of cure, cures, curing and cured.
All cures come from health. We often try to trick a disease. We cannot trick health. Illness is caused by an absence of healthiness, cured by improving healthiness. Continue reading
According to the DSM-5, the official bible of mental illnesses, ALL mental disorders are incurable. The text does not say this directly, instead it suggests we:
improve understanding, reduce stigma, and advance the treatment and eventual cures for these conditions *
“eventual cures” In the view of the DSM-5, no cures exist for any mental disorder. Not one. The previous edition, DSM-4 1987, and DSM-3 1980 do not contain the word “cure”. (If any previous edition does – I would love to know about it.)
Why are there, officially, no cures for any mental disorder? By design, although perhaps the design is not intentional?
Do medicines cure? Can medicine cure? Three years ago, I reported that Webster’s New World Medical Dictionary does not contain the words cure, cured, cures, nor incurable. I thought it was an exception. I was wrong. It’s not an exception, it’s the rule.
The words “cure” and “incurable” do not appear in The Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary, Ninth Edition, 2015. They do not appear in The Bantam Medical Dictionary, Sixth Edition, 2009. “Cure” does not appear in Barron’s Dictionary of Medical Terms, Sixth Edition, 2013, although “incurable” is defined as “being such that a cure is impossible within the realm of known medical practice“. Medical Terminology for Dummies, Second Edition, does not contain the word “cure”. I have a constantly growing list of medical dictionaries that don’t define cure, cures, curing, cured, nor incurable.
Cure, the word #cure, is disappearing from modern medicine. Share on XThree years after discovering the disappearance of cure from medical dictionaries, my research into the concept of cure led to publishing of a book about cure, covering the three general causes of illnesses, the illnesses that result, and the cures required for each: A New Theory of Cure which can be purchased at Amazon. Continue reading
A Mind of Your Own: The Truth about Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives by Kelly Brogan M.D. with Kristin Loberg
Kelly Brogan cures depression. There’s only one problem. It is not possible to prove anyone’s depression has been cured. Depression cured is not defined in current medical theory. So, Brogan tells women how to “heal their bodies and reclaim their lives”, offering “AN INVALUABLE GUIDE TO CONQUERING DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IN 30 DAYS”. If she called the book: “Kelly Brogan Cures Depression”, she would be branded a quack.
She’s not a quack. Continue reading
Health is whole.
Health is about wholeness and wholesomeness. Health is not perfect, no-one’s health is perfect, but everyone is a whole.
A baby is whole. A grandparent is whole. A disabled person is whole. Even a sick person is still a whole person.
Health is not the absence of illness. Health is whole, whether illness is present or not.
