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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Age: 27
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yeah, I don't even think that's what it truly is. My doctors an idiot, just looked at my eyes & said well you have vertigo here's some drugs. -_-
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can anyone break down the phrase mental illness?
i am often annoyed to hear that person x can't do this or is worse at this because of problem y, when it more clearly seems as a self-propagated inferiority complex more specifically for (relatively) minor issues, things that are not necessarily crippling. like everybody has bouts of depression or mood swings -- what's the cut off for illness? is it pretty much a self-diagnosis that gets validated?
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: fb.com/a.macdonald.iv
Age: 32
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I don't like the term "mental illness" because "illness" is borrowed from medicine where the sufferer has something external (like germs and bacteria) causing sickness independent of the sufferer's actions, and "mental" makes the term sound like you have this going on in your brain. For disorders like depression/anxiety/etc it has as much to do with behavior and emotional regulation as it does with cognition, so I prefer the term "psychiatric disorder."
Anyway, on this note I've been formally diagnosed with ADHD before. |
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