Mental Illness Debate

You dispute that mental illness is a thing that exists?

Here's your friendly reminder to not misuse a mental health illness :) Mental health is an important topic these days, thus it's important not to downplay certain illnesses and their meaning.

Could you not argue that it is a mental health issue?

You seem to be trying to generalise the behaviour of people with "mental health issues" which is rather broad with different outcomes among different individuals. It is almost like a polite way of putting people in the crazy bucket.

There's already plenty of mental illness out there so this manifestation doesn't seem too farfetched.

You think... "people not meshing with society" is a new thing you've just discovered? That needs more awareness?Rather than like, that's approximately half of what mental healthcare is, and "people not meshing with society" is known by dozens of different specific technical names depending on the details of what "not" or "mesh" or "society" looks like in any given case?This is embarrassing. One of the worst cases of HN &quo

What about this is mental illness?

What you are describing seems similar to Szasz's ideas of mental illness (, but please correct me if I am wrong).[1][1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz#.22Myth_of_mental...

Human psychology is on a spectrum. Mental disorders are extremely common, as are minor physical disorders. We aren't ashamed of seeking remedies for high blood pressure or low muscle mass or high fat, all of which are extremely common physical disorders. We shouldn't be ashamed of seeking remedies for mental disorders either.

This is what mental illness looks like. We used to treat it as such, now some people take them far too seriously.