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Originally Posted by Superfraggle
How do you define mental illness? Not having a TV, I haven't seen this special, but I have dealt with youth with hoarding issues, which often seems to stem more from upbringing than anything physiologically wrong with their brains. I have no doubt that there is something wrong there and they need professional help, but to paint them all as "mentally ill" is a bit too much of a broad stroke, IMO.
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Well when people are living in their own feces as said already, and it's beyond the point where they can have a healthy relationship with their own family, and it's effecting their quality of life severely, you have to wonder, would a stable minded person ever be like this? Also, a lot of those people don't want to be like that, but they can't help it. So yeah sure, maybe not all of them have a mental illness but the cases I'm talking about (for which you admit you hadn't seen it) there's something not right with them.