Do we all have mental illness?
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Anonymous
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I work in a psych facility and this is something many of us talk about frequently. We all have mental illness to some degree - the question is can we successfully navigate daily life without help or do we need intervention?
Discuss. |
Anonymous
| Perhaps you all do need help since you all have mental illness. How would we know if you all need help, though? |
Anonymous
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I mean “we” as in everyone in the world.
-OP |
Anonymous
| I don’t. |
Anonymous
You most definitely do. |
Anonymous
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Just like physical illness most people will experience some mental illness in their life. Usually not something chronic or severe but they will have at least an occurrence of mental illness in their lives.
Also everyone experiences poor mental health at some point, depending on the circumstances that can turn to illness if the poor health isn't well managed. |
Anonymous
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Can I successfully navigate daily life? Yes.
Next? |
Anonymous
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No OP, we don't and here is why...
You have to start with normal and from there you set apart everything else. In short, if there are no normal people but everyone is mentally ill then perhaps the baseline is off? Perhaps normal is not an absence of some or another mental issues but a presence of some? Therefore just as you could say that everybody is crazy you could say, everybody is normal to a degree  …
Hope this will help you to rewrite the psychiatry text books. 
If I were to drop few more pearls of my wisdom as a lay person... - you can't help but notice that psychiatry/psychology is "more then happy" to assign the status of mental illness to more and more simple and perfectly normal human conditions. When you google.. or if you are in the field you should know that I kid you not.. there were serious attempts to consider teenage years a mental illness, just as similarly grief was to be designated as mental illness. - you would need to dive into conclusion that making everything "illness" is a good thing.. for the business. Once you have one condition or another designated as a mental issue then from this is very short road to having it treated and medicated and that we do not discuss here... - many mental conditions of today might not really be such. Do you know why they are called conditions? Because they are inconvenient. It is not individuals with many conditions that have a problem wit the conditions, it is the rest of the society does. They decide that this and this is not normal and instead of accommodating the parts of the social fabric to them they just bend all kinds of people .. regarding of shapes, into one square peg hole. If you are a star or circle or pentagon,.. too bad, we need to cut your corners by medicting you so you can fit through the square hole. - Imagine the brilliancy of many Asperger people, Autistic people.. depending on how you define.. beautiful souls of Down syndrome.. in the ideal world there would be schools designed to teach kids who have ADHD while they run or twirl and where music is played .. and where kids can walk and talk to eachother all day long learning in very different way,(Montessori is not enough).. or schools that truly shield kids who have censory issues form stress and provide them with ideal comfort and perfect conditions.. but no, now it is marginal, expensive and rare. Many kids have issues learning sitting straight through 6 plus hours of school day from age 5 regardless of their personalities, what do society do.. send parents to the mental specialist to prescribe pills so they can sit the F straight and listen... Kids have to bend to the rules. Rules do not bend to kids. And more.. but you get the gist... Crazy or Normal is how you define it. If you go to a planet where everyone has ADHD but you and few other people, who is consider different?... and what is consider normal then? Aside from that, there is a difference between crazy as in mental illness and going bananas type of crazy. Every person who has relatively balanced mind can go crazy if you stress them enough. We live in the world that nothing but stresses us from early on and from every direction. Why? Nobody asked for it yet we are all subjected regularly and we subject ourselves, our kids.. as we consider that there is no other way until most pay the price but you take your pill and move on acting like nothing happened. So do we all have mental illness? No. We have conditions and personalities, experiences and limitations, exposures and resources.. and life kicks us down all the time so we sometimes turn not what we meant to be or would be if things were different. So.. are we all crazy? NO... but if we all were fine then there would be nobody to "therapy".. "medicate" and "treat" and that would be very very bad for the army of people who are ready to cure us of our human conditions. So no, we are not crazy but surely many people would be happy if we all were.
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Anonymous
| Well this coronavirus is showing me how many people have anxiety. |
Anonymous
| No we don’t all have mental illness. You’re defining it down. |
Anonymous
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Yes, nowadays anything is mental illness.. or at least someone is trying to make it one..
After hundredths thousands years of existence, the year 2012 arrived and now and only now we finally know that if you are grieving then you are out of your mind and you need to be cured... never you mind if you want to grief, if it is healthy and natural process, nope, you should not try it at home, too dangerous... I don't know what happened after initial happy debate but hopefully it have been shelved. If not God help us all. Otherwise tomorrow our experts will designate driving, eating and sleeping as other mental issues and we will all need to go into therapy for that. Is grief mental illness? With psychiatric changes, maybe https://www.containerstore.com/s/jewelry-storage/1?cid=di|evergreen|jewelrystorage|verizon||20312803-259485514-109290989|prospecting|970x90|&utm_source=verizonpt&utm_campaign=display&utm_medium=banner Grief Could Join List of Disorders https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/health/depressions-criteria-may-be-changed-to-include-grieving.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/27/grief-psychiatry-mental-illness/2359591/ Is Grief an Illness? The Debate Heats Up https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=154944 |
Anonymous
I use to think like this but no. Some people aren’t intelligent, so they make decision that put them at risk, which then causes issues. We all have quirks, And no one is perfect. But no that doesn’t mean that all have mental illness. Being a procrastinator is not mental illness. I’ve had conversations with people who truly think people are out to get them and that’s how they approach the world. There are crazy people. Some are stressed to that point sure as a result of modern society, but others have it. A line of functioning with daily life is a good marker in some ways, but not all, I would even add get along reasonably with others. |
Anonymous
This is ridiculous. Anything for profit and a click |
Anonymous
This is the right answer. |
Anonymous
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Mental illness can be mild or moderate. It can be acute or chronic. It can be short lasting or long lasting. Most people recover from their illnesses.
Physical or mental illness is pretty much when some aspect of the body isn't functioning as it should and causing symptoms. It doesn't have to be extreme. There are almost 70,000 ICD diagnostic codes for physical illness. Far far fewer for mental illnesses as we haven't yet teased mental illness out to the degree we have physical illness. Lots of mental illnesses get clumped into diagnostic categories. |