Is there such a thing as "normal"? Are mental health clients labeled too much?

There is definitely a lot of stigma around the world "normal." I personally believe it is very difficult to define and "normal."  I would say it can be described as "average" and is based upon societal norms that have been created over time.  "When a critical mass of people change their behavior, the deviant may become the norm." If everyone is doing it, then it will become the norm, and therefore there will be less judgement on the behavior. As social workers, we assess, treat, and we diagnose, which usually comes with a "label."  We have created labels for every symptom out there and in the meantime the pharmaceutical companies are banking off these labels.  Patients are being labeled as having a certain diagnosis i.e. depressed, anxious, autistic, hyper active, oppositionally defiant etc.

Rather than working on starting a session with a "planned emptiness", workers go in with preconceived notions about the client based off the label.  Many are not seeing the person for their strengths and human potential rather they are focusing on the label and the behaviors and symptoms that go along with it.  The more diagnoses for a specific illness, the more they can become normalized.  For instance, ADHD has been diagnosed so frequently that it is becoming normalized in our society.  Our social structures are not quite conducive to mental health causing a stigma around the world "normal' and "crazy."  If you are medicated or have severe mental illness, one without knowledge of mental illness may label you as "crazy."  The stigma exists, lets work on breaking it together by educating those on mental illness symptoms and treatment.
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