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Originally Posted by redforever
Mental illness does not know boundaries like income level of the family, social issues within the family, schools people attended, whatever. Mental illness presents itself in every cross section of society.
This is no different than cancer, heart disease, ....... whatever.
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I skimmed the thread (as its depressing as hell) so I am not sure what you exactly mean by "mental illness", but I know 2 people who have been diagnosed with "bi-polar" disorder. And if their problem is clinical, it was self medicated.
In both cases, the problem stems from a general lack of drive, chronic laziness, chronic "feel sorry for myself" syndrom; almost all brought on by parents who treated their kid like the centre of the universe instead of teaching them life values.
As I said before, I cannot make a blanket generalization of all "bi-polar" cases but from my own experience, those 2 cases were simply a medical cop-out for inherit laziness and a general attitude of jacka$$edness. However, I find these days the medical community in general (who for some reason seems to be immune to critisizm) seems to want to define everything by a disorder, or disease, or deficiency in some sort of cellular or genetic makeup.
Sometimes things are exactly the way they look. The fact is some people are just f'd up and they cannot be defined or explained.