do mental people know their mental?

Question

just curious

Answer 1

It depends on the type of mental illness, and the severity of that illness. Some people are blissfully unaware that they are "crazy" and some people who have a mental illness are painfully aware of their illness.

Some types of mental illness, such as schizophrenia, lend themselves to a higher level of "non-awareness," and certainly that changes within those diagnosed with schizophrenia, based on a number of individual factors.

Sometimes, when people with mental illnesses are not on prescription medication, or have a prescription, but are not taking it properly, or at all, they have a higher rate of psychosis, or hallucinations, or other symptoms may be exacerbated.

Some folks with mental illnesses such as depression, or bi-polar illness know very well that there is something wrong. And other times, other mental illness, like character disorders, ingrain themselves so deeply in the very root of who people are, that they don't have any way of looking at the world except through those lenses of experience. So in some cases, they have no frame of reference for thinking that they are "mentally ill."

Finally, there are times when people may have become so ill from their mental illness and lack of resources like therapy and medication, that they spiral deeper into their illness. People have done awful things in those desperate times, and when they are then back on medication, the weight of coming out of that "fog" but knowing that something was terribly wrong is so heavy on their hearts and minds that they just want to disappear into their mental illness again.

Mental illness is terribly sad and it wreaks havoc on people and their families. And contrary to popular belief, the bulk of the mentally ill are not homeless people downtown. They're mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers. They're regular people, trying to live regular lives.

Answer 2

a lot of mental illness has an element of denial, whereby one knows at some level something is not right, like a bipolar person getting manic symptoms early on they will not want to recognize it as that means they need to treat it -which means bringing them down from the natural "high" that they perceive as pleasant(until it gets out of control) Also drug abuse /alcoholism often consists of denying that there is a problem and that it is just a "lifestyle they chose"and their "prerogative"(as the song goes) Depressed individuals don't want to move or do something active at times and say they don't need it but in actuality they need to move and get up and active to get better. Better understanding of mental illness makes all of us better people who can be compassionate and aware in case we become victims of the same thing-it's very common! No one is immune. BTW a person isn't called "mental" but mentally ill or possibly developmentally disabled(retarded) would be the kind that occurs at birth or after brain injury.

Answer 3

Depends on what mental illness your talking about. Alot of people do realize their depressed or have anxiety. Other things aren't so noticeable to a particular person cause they have done behavior so long or its come on so gradual it doesn't seem out of the ordinary to them. When you get to the more complex mental illnesses most may not realize it. Pyschophrentics generally don't realize they are ill. The best way to determine a persons mental health is to have them examined by a professional.

Answer 4

Actually young people just feel sad or tense or stressed. The concept of mental illness is artificially imposed on the social disorders. Only at severe depression level is something felt or understood. Psychosis is known in the mind but it is a steel vice.

Answer 5

Most often they do, and it's very painful. I assume you're talking about people with mental illness. If you're talking about mental retardation, same applies pretty much.

Answer 6

No. Its like if you were deaf from birth, you wouldn't know what sound sounded like. Same with mental people, they don't know what a normal state of mind is.

Answer 7

No, becuase if you think you are mental and believe it than you are not mental.

Answer 8

Their mental what?

Answer 9

I can't answer for others but I feel psychotic a lot of the time. I think it really depends on the person.

Answer 10

yes just like if i blasted caps into someones ***