Who is the paragon of Mental Health?

Question

What are all these disorders based on? Order? What kind of order... It has to be instantiated in some particular. If it isn't then that's just absurd. Might as well kill myself now. Seriously, that's why Socrates drank the hemlock.

Dr. Phil?
Tibetan Monk?
George Bush?
Brad Pitt?
Calista Flockheart?
Freud?
Charles Manson?
Hillary Clinton?
Mother Theresa?
Che Guevarra?

"Okay, lay off the catnip"
heh, so you're trying to say I'm hyperactive?
I.e. socially aberrant, not normal.

If I don't find one satisfying answer by tomorrow I'll delete the question.

I doubt any of you involved, patient or otherwise, have any clue. Which is heart-breaking. We'll see.

Nice one Justhonest..
Homosexuality = abnormality
Thinking = abnormality
what's this moniker you want to put on me?
Eh? what new medivalism?

that's at least 3 ad hominems
on this question, now.

Nice to see Angel always has your back~
really love your questions that go no where
and end up selecting answers like:
"But I still love you babe!"

Spammer, heh
Points are the last thing on my mind.

So far it's: (1) for Mother Theresa, (1) for ALL mothers, (-1) for Charles Manson, and (1) for Dr. Phil.

haha (2) for Tibetan monks and (-4) for myself.

Answer 1

I would say Tibetan Monk but for a different reason to the one stated by TheHza. All the rest are specific people, and would if probed relentlessly, would show some degree of mental health problem or personality disorder. Even the late mother Theresa's relentless work with the sick would probably register as an obsessive blip on some psychologists radar. The deviation from the norm model seems an arbitrary tool as is required.

None of these people are normal except the Tibetan monk; In his fictionalised, idealised, nonexistent state, he is as normal as peoples imaginations require him to be. He doesn't exist, so by default he cannot be insane. He is, therefore the paragon of mental health.


Edit; Dr Phil's a Psychopath, I'm willing to bet money on that!

Answer 2

The disorder is hysteria - a diagnostic label applied to a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses. The fear is often centered on a body part, most often on an imagined problem with that body part (disease is a common complaint). People who are "hysterical" often lose self-control due to the overwhelming fear. The order is based on severity of the disorder. I believe it to be less severe at top down to most severe at the bottom. Dr Phil deals with the disorders of others so he is the least severe. Che Guevarra ended up dying so he is the most severe.

Answer 3

They found that meditation can increase the size and activity of the front of your left lobe and shrinks the activity of the right. The right apparently is the source of feelings of fear and anger. The left seems to be where positive, constructive feelings come from. Tibetan monks practice meditiation, and are aware of this, so they are directly and actively pursuing positive, constructive feelings. I would say that makes them paragons of mental health.

Answer 4

Well let me see here... Homer Simpson. He's reasonably well rounded. Oh, the disorders are based on symptoms found in the DMV IV Put together by a bunch of tight arses trying to make a buck, and the world bought into it.

Answer 5

"These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up."

Charles Manson, during his trial.

We have no paragon of mental health, only the doomed.

*Edit: Also, "The only difference between the Sane and the Insane, is IN and yet within this world, the Sane have the power to have the Insane locked up."

Hunter S. Thompsn

Answer 6

Okay, lay off the catnip. But to give you my opinion, because I am not a doctor nor do I know these people, I'd have to say of the choices given, Mother Teresa.

Answer 7

My Mother was the paragon of menta; health and so is yours! If she isn't then check out the woman who raised you! You will find out that women are the ones who usually pick up the pieces of shattered men and then slowly and patiently put them back together again

Answer 8

Socrates was teaching the youth the secrets of society even as it is today and he was being driven out of town by the winner-players. Go figure!

Answer 9

Why me of course (hehehe). All of us humans are a bit odd and those who don't seem to be are just better actors. The only sane thing to say is that we're all insane in varying degrees.

Answer 10

I'm sorry, are you jealous because no one ever likes your questions enough to pick them as a best answer? grow up you moron. it is an individual choice for best answer, that's why the questioner gets to pick it and not you.