David.
Radical Centrist
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Defining a mental illness has repercussions of funding and criminalization.Exactly my point. People are hard wired differently, doesn't make them mentally ill.
I think society has done a major injustice by claiming so many things are just mental illness issues instead of trying to fix it. It's hard to say if thoughts can be cured. Frankly, I don't think so. I have major depression, possible bipolar disorder. The problem with mental issues is it's not exactly concrete. You can never walk into a doctor office and say hey I have this issue, can you fix it. I personally don't think there are ways to stop mental issues beyond medication, but I haven't found one antidepressant that truly makes me feel 'normal.' But what is normal? How do you become normal? What can I talk about that'll make me normal again? There's no fixing it half of the time. Sure support groups for pedophiles may help. I personally think they should allow them to have child pornography. It's a problem, if you can do anything to prevent sexual attacks, do it. It may be frowned upon, but nobody needs to get hurt mentally or physically
There is a scope and a paradigm of abnormal wiring, determined on things like harm to others and themselves, and how to deal with it.
More important than labelling it is understanding it as is own topic: drug addiction is part criminality, part mental illness, part disease. If you'd like to classify it, think more in these terms.. if you'd like to solve it, stop calling for peoples balls or acting like its homosexuality in the 1940's