Misdiagnosis Theory – Overview
Human minds may get lost in games of emotional violence and in confusion, but they are inherently intelligent, good, and even competent — even those who are confusedly engaged in Diagnosis Theory, and even those who are painfully misdiagnosed or express rage, madness, or incoherence from a position of being lost in systems of misdiagnosis. Our capacity to behave competently corresponds highly with our freedom and safety from systems of misdiagnosis. Competence is subjective. The word arises from Latin, from a verb with its first meaning being, “to come together, meet”, it’s second being: “to agree, coincide in point of time”, and it’s third being: “to be equal to, be capable of”. It’s the third definition that gives rise to our modern idea of competence. In latin competō comes together this way: “From com- (’with, together’) + petō (’to seek, aim, head for’).” When we judge another as being incompetent, we may be expressing a subjective feeling in ourselves of abandonment when after having gone seeking after a seeking to partner our own, after having gone striving in search their striving in the world we assume all people share. Within a profession or within a company or circles of hobbyists or specialist, it may be appropriate to communicate experiences of competence or incompetence about other members or members purporting to seek entry. Emphatically, in Misdiagnosis Theory, it is never morally necessary or even appropriate to attempt to proffer wholesale judgements of incompetence against humans or in assessment of their skill of being human. This is not to say we should ever be obligated to perceive competence in another, or even ourselves, no matter how vulnerable or sympathetic, where we do not perceive it — as this would constitute disrespect toward truth that could easily be read by a vulnerable person as form of disrespect toward them. Rather we value truth and competence, we know these are always either apparent or latent in each of us, as each of our minds are human minds. Intelligence, goodness, and competence are ultimately more latent and immanent within us and other human minds than are mental illnesses.
Next: Tenet 3 – Medical truth is a category of truth that deserves to be respected.
Or, explore the opposite: Tenet 2 – The minds of all human beings are inherently incompetent, gross, amoral, and ultimately not minds
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