Your friend needs to take a few courses in human psychology.
I would say it was not impacting my job performance, but they would likely have said it was. As a software developer, job performance is assessed quite subjectively anyway.Was it negatively impacting your job performance?
Were you offered any help?
Typical elitist librul! Where do these people get off? Thinking they know more than me just because they have multiple advanced degrees and years of experience in relevant fields!Yeah, being told that I just need to pray more and my treatment-resistant depression will go away really is fun.
This might be surprising, but if the DSM V disagrees with you then you're wrong.
Because the people with PhDs in fields like clinical psychology, neuropsychology and psychiatry know more than a layman about mental illness, and the DSM is based upon expert consensus.
Edit: I have a mental illness that was only recently recognized as one in the latest DSM, but that's different from saying that, say, Judging Other People Disease is a real illness when most experts are familiar with it and have almost all said that it wasn't.
It's not that these things haven't been considered -- they're been rejected.
Depends on the mental illness, and how the guns are kept. I have a mental illness, AND keep guns in the house, so I caution your breadth of brush.This just shows that if you have a mental illness, you probably should not have guns in your house.
I guess that answer would depend on whether the person was a follower of Hobart Freeman or not.Do you ever seek medical care when you are sick or in emergency situations?
Or, do you just say a prayer to be healed?
I just read that a mother who shot and killed her two daughters in Texas before being shot and killed herself had a history of "mental illness".
Reading the comments after the article I see writers saying things about guns and "crazy people".
If it is not "crazy people" it is "a danger to themselves and others", "mentally unstable", etc.
All of those words are in reference to conditions that we now view as medical conditions.
Yet, we do not treat the people who have these conditions like they are suffering from an illness. Outside of the clinic they get almost no empathy, compassion or care. They get called things like "crazy people". They get dragged into every debate about access to firearms. They get dragged into debates about inadequate access to mental health services, not because we do not like to see them suffer, but because we see them as a threat to public safety.
In the time of modern medicine has there ever been any other condition that is viewed as a medical condition but is stigmatized so much?
Maybe I do not follow the news media enough--I do not even own a TV set--but I do not hear anybody calling for us to respond appropriately to the suffering of those who have mental illnesses. Maybe it is long past due. Maybe the suffering of the mentally ill, not the danger of guns, is where our energy should have been focused all along.
In ancient Greece, the mentally ill were thought to have been visited by the gods.The taboo around mental illness is a cultural one.
But by the same logic, anti-psychotic drugs do not not cure true cases of demonization.This is why an exorcism and prayer doesn't pull people out of psychosis, but anti-psychotic medicine does.
But by the same logic, anti-psychotic drugs do not not cure true cases of demonization.
Yes mental illness has a stigma to it. But in this modern PC world, we cannot look at it like that. We have to view someone who is clearly unstable as "OK" and to be accepted just as they are.
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