2006-08-11 02:20:45 · 15 answers · asked by beiterspace 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
A lot of people from the Moral Coward Society answering this question and presumably the next as well !
2006-08-11 02:35:10 · update #1
probably
2006-08-11 02:24:31 · answer #1 · answered by Homer Baby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, with the current divide, the right wing, housing the religiously zealous, probably has a higher rate of mental illness. The left wing is more educated in general, and pervasive mental illness frequently precludes completion of one's higher education.
Beliefs also raising a red flag would be conspiracy buffs on either side of the fence. These people I think of as teetering on the brink of mental illness.
2006-08-11 09:29:30 · answer #2 · answered by finaldx 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If being left wing is a mental illness, why isn't it listed in the psychiatry manuals? How come you can't be sectioned or treated for it?
If you dislike left wing people so much that you think they're mentally ill, don't hang around with them. Stick to your 'sane' right wing mates who you find so normal that you don't need to include them in your question.
2006-08-11 09:34:18 · answer #3 · answered by pea 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are plenty of crazies in both camps. Unfortunately, however, GWB Inc. is staying in power by promoting hate-based thinking. In 2004, he got himself elected (not re-elected, since he wasn't legally elected in 2000) by appealing to religious nuts. Now he's appealing to racist nuts by fanning the anti-immigration flames.
If "right-wing" is represented by the Republican party and by GWB, I would say that there are more nuts on the right. This is because of Republican policies.
There are thoughtful, sane Republicans and conservatives who now know this, deeply regret it, and live to see the impeachment of George W. Bush.
I would strongly agree that being "left-wing"--which now means "against Bush," is a strong indication that a person is reading the news.
2006-08-11 09:48:04 · answer #4 · answered by Austin W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently peoples' political views - broadly, how 'left-wing' they are - correlate with their capacity for empathy.
So you could argue that being right-wing indicates an underdeveloped sense of humanity and a predisposition for psychopathy.
Like Hitler.
Personally though, I wouldn't dare suggest such a thing :^)
2006-08-11 09:26:03 · answer #5 · answered by Wax Crayon 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Typically, people with right wing views are:
(a) XENOPHOBIC (a typical right-winger will want extremely tight restrictions on immigration or a srop on foreigners altogether)
(b) SELFISH (unwilling to share or help his fellow man, hence being against welfare and being ambivalent about environmental issues)
(c) FASCISTIC (a firm believer in the superiority of his country, race and total belief in its leader and also typically opposed to every other point of view)
(d) BACKWARDS (anti-progessionist, against change and anything forward-thinking)
(e) UNINFORMED (hence the blind willingness to believe in government propaganda and Fox News)
(f) IGNORANT and CLOSED MINDED (of any fact that doesn't already coincide with their own pre-conceived ideas)
2006-08-11 09:48:28 · answer #6 · answered by Bapboy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no, it means your more than likely a left footed footballer! where i come from, an indication of mental illness is when you start to questioning yourself!
2006-08-11 09:27:41 · answer #7 · answered by Gninja 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it's an indication of an informed political view
2006-08-11 09:26:21 · answer #8 · answered by e404pnf 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not any more than being right-wing
2006-08-11 09:42:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No being right wing is.
2006-08-11 09:25:47 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no, but you asking this question is an indication of severe disturbance!
2006-08-11 09:27:04 · answer #11 · answered by eviex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋