It just seems that most people have a little bit of the qualities that we put people "away" for being a psycopath, and I truly find it ridiculous that we could call it "okay" to judge another human being struggling to survive on this same planet.
2006-09-06 19:58:29 · 9 answers · asked by iLoveHugs 3 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Because people have some weird need to label one another as something..... everyone needs to be a member of a group, or class or category, or percentage. People identify who they are, by making comparisons to others, but I think we've gone overboard with needing to label everyone as one thing or another.
If two people have similar traits that prevent them from living like the Cosbys or the Bradys, some doctor out there says, "Hey this must be an illness" and invents some new disease that will obviously need medicating, and the drug companies are quick to agree, of course, because they stand to make alot of money. They have commercials for goodness sake!!!
We're trying to "normalize" everyone with this drug and that drug. I say the world would be totaly boring if everyone were to think and act the same. Why not just expand what we consider to be normal to a more reasonable range.... the way things used to be. Kids got hyper in school without being labeled ADHD, teenagers became angry without being called schytzophrenic and people got depressed just as much as they do today, but they dealt with it by changing their diet, their lifestyle and their outlook not asking the doctor what pills they can take.
Yes, there are ecceptions, there are people who do need help to even fall within the normal range and live a somehwat "normal" life, but I don't think 99% of the population of the US should be on meds for mental illness.
We need to accept our differences, instead of trying to elimnate them. Let the next generation know there's nothing wrong with being different or having supposedly non-traditional thoughts or behaviors... because it's not as abnormal as the media or the drug compmanies make us think it is.
It's a big farse, an idealized, rose-colored perception that actually makes us normal people think there is something wrong with us if we don't live up to this idealized way of being.
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2006-09-07 03:40:08 · answer #1 · answered by mutherwulf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is the attitude that an illness is a thing to be judged. Think about it - if I have a cold, am I a moral reprobate? Would my tumor give you the right to judge me as a bad person? Hell no!
No one has the right to pass judgment on a person's worth just because their brain is ill, or their arm is crooked, or their genes made them ugly. Even a sociopath - a person who needs to be kept away from other people - did not choose to suffer a mental disorder.
If anything, all we can judge is a person's choices, and not their physical challenges and maladies. And we really shouldn't be judging at all!
2006-09-07 03:11:25 · answer #2 · answered by MaqAtak 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont know, but i too have also struggled and been frustrated with that concept. Why does everyone have to behave like evryone else, i dont like that its considered "un-normal" to not be like everyone else, as far as how they live their lives and what they believe in. People for centuries have been following a certain type of path(s) for living in this world. And it just seems now like its something we all have to do when are born, just cause of the fact everyone else has lived that way for ages. Its the 21 century, and i think that time has come that cultures and lifestyle that we as humans have been so accustomed to following have to change. I mean really, think about it how far have these customs taken us in this world? I dont think very far, we have to change how we live and how we interact with one another on this planet, cause if not then well just all end up killing eachother.
2006-09-07 03:20:07 · answer #3 · answered by rickysol82 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because soceity as a whole is cruel! People who do suffer from mental illness, such as myself, have no control over it. I take my medication, because I want to be better. Society creates a lot of issues for people too! Anorexia is just one right off the top of my head. People, society, no one should be judged. That is reserved for peoples Gods as they understand them! I like what you said here, too many people think it ok to abuse and reject "mentally ill" Thank you for saying something that matters.
2006-09-07 05:40:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because for whatever reason if someone acts more than a little outside of what society consideres normal, then they're "mentally ill" and need pills or theropy to fit in more.....I dont agree with it either.
2006-09-07 03:05:32 · answer #5 · answered by zooba 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honestly I am beginning to wonder if everyone has sociopathic tendencies...I believe everyone is crazy...not that I'm paranoid, I just think society is going into the toilet...we won't make it past 2100 surely, thats for certain!
2006-09-07 03:06:01 · answer #6 · answered by gunslinger08 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmmm... you feel that most people have psychopathic qualities? You're not crazy, find better friends. Why? Because most people don't have those qualities.
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2006-09-07 09:57:47 · answer #8 · answered by Sweet Lady 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-07 03:24:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋