where is the evidence for mental illness; besides pointing to Charles Manson in the slammer?

Question

or the mere fact that people take Prozac

Answer 1

I think a mental health assessment is based on behaviour, attitude and concept of reality. I don't think there is a straight forward biological reason for someone having mental health problems, as usually it's a result of environment.
This is probably not the case for drug induced psychosis.

Answer 2

HUH? You don't think mental illness exists? Look around at the street people in your community, check out the number of people who attempt to self-medicate using alcohol and drugs. Talk to any teacher, priest, pastor, judge, lawyer, or bus driver. Every one of these people deals with people with mental illness nearly every day.
Its sad that mental illness has such stigmatizims attached to them. Quite often a mental illness is the result of wonky chemicals or signals within the brain. We do not understand the brain and its functions well, but to make a computer analogy, Microsoft still does not know why some computers freeze more than others. Sometimes the signals just get mixed up.
The important thing to remember is that mental illness is a medical condition, just like any other medical condition, it is not the person's fault, so lets try to gain some respect for mental illness and treat it for what it is -- a biological condition.
As for Charles Manson, I don't think he is mentally ill, just evil. There is a difference.

Answer 3

Charles Manson had some heavy Satanic connections
check where this is and you will understand more of whats going on
www.infowars
or just search satanic cults .or charles manson
mental illness is not the key

Answer 4

Huh? Evidence? Just look around, man! It is everywhere. Read your daily newspaper and watch the news. Mental illness is all too obvious.
Besides, I worked in a psych unit for awhile, as a nurse. You want to see evidence for mental illness? There's where you'll find it, the looney-bin!

Answer 5

Tom Cruise

Answer 6

Charles Manson is clinically clinically determined as a sociopath and as having bipolar affliction. those 2 psychological ailment at the same time does not propose that he did no longer have administration of his very own strikes and not in any respect classifies him as undeserving for trial.

Answer 7

People who can't get over the fact that George W. Bush won the election fair and square and he was the better man for the job of President of the good ole USA!!!

Answer 8

Self-reported cases of mental illness, medical history, interviews, brain scans (CAT, MRI, etc.), the fact that when people take medications/undergo therapy to treat the illness they have that it works...

Answer 9

Well, the question is what one considers to be "normal," and based on what normal is, how far does one deviate from it? If one deviates extremely far from "normal" then perhaps its a sign of mental illness and disorder.

Answer 10

Yes they can test the body's chemistry but usually they just go by behavior....because thats what matters