2007-10-01 12:36:24 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
People don't think things like depression is a mental illness because its not acceptable to them. They think its just a behaviour problem.
2007-10-01 12:39:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
From Webster's - definition of crazy:
2 a : MAD, INSANE
Someone with mental illness can, and often does, show such symptoms, some temporarily and others not so temporarily.
In general people use it without fully understanding what mental illness is and not fully understanding that someone who has a mental illness can have treatment and can live life or return to living life pretty much normally in a lot of cases.
2007-10-01 14:07:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have OCD, I do not tell people I have it. I lie to my cousins, aunts and uncles wen I tell them that I go to college. I had to dropout because of OCD. When people hear mental disease they imagine mental hospitals with people proclaiming they are God, people eating their own cow pies. As far as I know, only schizophreniacs cannot tell the diference between reality and fantasy. Not being able to tell the difference is the definition of crazy. Their are such a long lists of other mental illnesses. Only people with mental illnesses or those who have a girlfriend, spouse, parent, sibling with a mental illness know that you having a mental illness is not equal to you being crazy.
Good luck
2007-10-01 22:24:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignorance. The media portrays the mentally ill as being psychotic, paranoid, schizophrenics. Most people do not realize how many mental illnesses there are that are not severe.
2007-10-01 12:41:46 · answer #4 · answered by Karrose 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They think because you're different you're not like them. Also, the typical stereotype of a mental patient is a crazy psychopath who tries to, yah know, kill someone or something... It's not really that they're being mean. they're just not sure what to think. They assume because you're mentally ill, you're not sane. Therefor you're insane, or crazy.
2007-10-01 12:58:51 · answer #5 · answered by Ellen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are ignorant, and do not want to learn about the nature of the illness. It is a shame that people are so judgmental to those who appear to be a little different form them.
Labels only hurt more then do any good.
2007-10-01 13:47:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they are ignorant and to acknowledge the existence of mental illness might make them question their own sanity.
2007-10-01 17:28:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fear of the unknown.
They are not aware of mental illness or what it is so they find it easier to dismiss their fears by calling people crazy .
This is not for you to worry about.One cannot change the minds of ignorant people.
good luck
Paulxx
2007-10-01 12:40:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When something goes hay-wire in the brain,
"mental illness" is the
polite and politically correct source
of the "crazy behavior"
2007-10-01 12:59:52 · answer #9 · answered by Hope 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
because they have not been there or most likely they choose to say they havent'
there are many diff mental illness
you need not say nothing as they think your mad
people choose to think what they want
2007-10-01 12:41:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋