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And end up doing "not normal things" to attain attention and in the process just make people think they are ill and then when they try to just be normal all the people that think they're ill and the influence of that for them is why they in turn become truly mentally ill.
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2006-09-04 09:22:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

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2006-09-04 09:25:26 · answer #1 · answered by qwertyu 4 · 1 0

A Big B.
Mental Illness is mostly caused by biology rather than a situation in life or anything. It is actually physical with most people don't understand. I have a few mental illnesses to be exact. The first and foremost is bipolar disorder which is an irregularity in mood. Mostly it is defined by having extreme highs and lows in feelings. You could be on top of the world one day, and at the pits of suicide the next. There have been times when I have felt so alone and so depressed that I wanted to die. There often was no source of the feelings, I just felt them.

It is just something I have like someone with cancer. You don't chose to have it, you just do because the chemicals in your brain are imbalanced. We all have brain chemicals that regulate our moods, feelings, emotions, etc. Just like any physical disease there could be a problem with the regulation of these chemicals. This can cause a difference in behavior, personality, and emotion. People don't understand that behavior is based on your brain, this is where behavior is decided upon.

I won't get into detail about the different brain chemicals and what they are and what they are responsible for. Many times mental illness runs in families, this makes being genetically predisposed to the disorder highly probably. My father, sister, and all of my aunts and uncles on my fathers side have some sort of mental illness. I myself have suffered also with ADHD, and OCD. It is a struggle, however medication has helped me greatly, and is a must in any bipolar person. Commonly used medication are called mood-stabilizers, the most and only med specificallyused Bipolar is Lithium. Anti-depressants are used with this often, sometimes anti-psychotics for people that experience psychotic symptoms during and episode of mania or depression.

So please, do some research and you will come to find that these people are not just seeking attention. Yes sometimes we do seek attention but only because we need it. If you lost someone that was a dear friend and very close to you, wouldn't you want some comfort and attention? It is the same way with depression, you feel like that accept it is everyday and you can't stop it.

2006-09-04 16:35:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

False. Unhappy people doing "not normal" things to attain attention is called drama-queen-ism.

People from all walks of life, rich, poor, happy, and unhappy all can end up doing weird things that put them in mental institutes. Most of them end up living in their own feces under a freeway somewhere, and are completely ignored, even when they walk right up to you and ask for change.

Obviously then, getting attention doesn't work, and if it were the cause for mental illness, there would be only one crazy person in the world, as everyone else would have seen that it was an enormous failure, and would have sought some other way to get attention.

2006-09-04 16:38:04 · answer #3 · answered by ye_river_xiv 6 · 0 0

No mental illness is not just attention seeking. When a mentally ill person is medicated they can live a normal life, for the most part. Mental illness is an incapacitating illlness, it is demeaning, and carries a stigma of being unable to care for oneself. Nobody wants to be in emotional pain, certainly not emotional pain that will not let up regardless of obvious goodness going on around a person.

Attention seekers can feign mental illness, truely mentally ill people are more likely to try to hide their disorder, or withdraw from life and activities they used to enjoy. Dealing with mental illness isn't easy, but it has to be dealt with, writing someone off as just seeking attention when they are mentally ill is dangerous.

2006-09-04 16:32:45 · answer #4 · answered by n_of49p 3 · 0 0

B
You can't honestly believe that! Do you even have the faintest clue what it's like to have a mental illness? Well, I'll tell you. It's absolute hell, and I would give anything to not suffer with it! It's not something I decided one day to wake up and have, it was not like deciding 'cornflakes or waffles'!!!! When I take the proper medication I'm usually ok, 'normal' if you like. But sometimes something triggers me and I weep for hours or hurt myself or try to commit suicide. How would you like to know that you have virtually no control over feelings like that? I have this disorder because I inherited it from a fraternal grandparent, and I had a lot of messed up stuff happen to me as a kid, which made it worse. So there you go.

2006-09-04 19:06:19 · answer #5 · answered by krissy_butterworth 2 · 0 0

I've seen examples of people who are mentally ill recieve the proper medication and become "normal". I'm sure some people try to pretend for the attention, but I really think a lot of the people who are on medication need to be.

2006-09-04 16:26:24 · answer #6 · answered by Purdey EP 7 · 2 0

False, and if anyone thinks that they're obviously ignorant of the subject they're talking about and have never actually experienced clinical depression. All they do is harm the people really affected by making society not take it seriously and confuse it with "being sad," which is entirely different.

2006-09-04 16:27:05 · answer #7 · answered by theonlymonsterdog 2 · 2 0

False Mental Illness is real. Adn people suffering from it need real help.

2006-09-04 16:29:51 · answer #8 · answered by October 7 · 0 0

Mental illness, is what you will get if you keep thinking that mentally ill people, become mentally ill, just to get you to pity them.

2006-09-04 16:27:00 · answer #9 · answered by markos m 6 · 3 0

B FALSE!!!! lots of people with mental illnesses don't have a "bad life", it is a chemical thing in their brain, they can't help it!!!!!

2006-09-04 16:25:49 · answer #10 · answered by she who is awesome 5 · 2 0

That is a big yes. That is the only way some people know how to react to life and they can not seem to find the right path. A lot of it is drug induced. Some of it poor diet in childhood and adult hood.

Like the mom who gives the child cookies and coca cola for breakfast and bread for lunch and maybe canned soup for dinner.

2006-09-04 16:27:26 · answer #11 · answered by T 4 · 1 3

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