Do you accept sadness, anxiety, obsessions, irrational ideas or fear as a normal part of being human?

Question

or do you think these should be treated as if they were mental illnesses. In my view love is very irrational and the grief it causes when couples break up looks like a sickness but should it be treated as such?

Answer 1

to a certain degree its normal.if its excessive i would say medication is needed

Answer 2

I would consider sadness as the only example of normal human feelings. Anxiety depending on it's severity may need medications. I suffered with anxiety all my life, I mean when I look back why shouldn't I have? My mom was mentally ill. We were neglected. I was sexually abused. Irrational ideas same thing goes it depends on the content. Obsessions can be very debilitating. I also had breast cancer, that's when I got diagnosed and treated.

Answer 3

We are human beings, and part of being human is to carry emotions and feelings. It is simply a part of the experience. While going through the experiences of love, grief, loss, discouragement, sadness, depression, anxiety are not always easy to endure, they are part of being human. Sometimes, when a person's normal coping mechanisms are not providing enough relief, then their pain should be treated appropriately, which may include counseling and or medication.

Answer 4

I doubt a life can be lived totally without fear, sadness and other negative emotions. But there is always a way to improve, to make efforts to move from negative to positive attitudes, to change your life.
Life is always a balance, and it's up to us how we want to live it.
In your example of "love" couples break up because of hurt attachment and egoism, because they loved not the person but an idealized idea of that person. When the passion "mist" dissipates they understand that that person it not the loved ideal but someone else. And the egoism kicks in.
True love is unconditional. It's when you are truly interested in the person and you care only about the good of this person, regardless of his/ her relationships with you.
It's hard to find a balance between a healthy self-esteem and selfless kindness to others. Between sadness and self-preservation, between anxiety and detachment from results of disturbing events, or obsession and objective understanding of the situation. But then again, to be a true human being is hard too :)

To answer your question, no, they are not mental illnesses per se, like delirium, but rather limitations of one's mind.

Answer 5

As long as you don't live your life with these feelings constantly then i would say that you are a normal human being. In fact, if you deny any of the above than I believe you are either lying or should be treated for a mental illness.

Answer 6

There is no growth without pain. A baby doesn't learn to walk without falling a few times. A child doesn't learn how to be a friend without confrontation. And you will never truly love someone without some heartache.

Growth and Change is what it's all about.

That being said, you must also learn to take responsibility only for what you can control and let the rest go. Another person cannot make you sad, mad or anything else...it's all in how you choose to think about it. Coping tools can be learned...but you're only as happy as you choose to be.

Answer 7

You cannot "treat" these human responses, because they are experiencing an emotion. Take all emotion away? No you should read 1986. Part of living in a fallen world is pain and suffering. We just have to deal with it. If you want to reject love altogether that is fine for you but fr me I recognise that love and friendship brings more good than bad.

1 Corinthians 13:13
"And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

Answer 8

These are characteristics of being HUMAN, submitting to these natural imbalances usually results in a person's ingestion of medications, this further weakens a person, in many cases making them dependent upon said medications, these feelings can be controlled from within by self, if a person chooses to put these feelings under wraps themselves a greater since of achievement is rewarded and a new level of awareness and strength is attained. MEDS aren't the answer to these feelings, these feelings don't have the power to kill...and what doesn't kill a person only makes them stronger.

Answer 9

All of these things are part of being human--at times. When any of these goes overboard, then it's time for intervention--to see a doctor, etc. Love isn't irrational--it's also part of the human condition, if you're lucky. I think the old saying is true--'it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'!

Answer 10

All emotions, those listed above as well as happiness, elation, guilt, hate and jealousy are a normal part of being human.

Any one of them could, however if a person just focused on that to the exclusion of everything else require treatment as a mental illness.

Answer 11

They're totally normal part of human exhistence. We feel emotions. Heart break is not a sickness, it's an emotion that'll pass with time. I actually feel they treat too much these days. Sometimes I wonder when personality traits became disorders.