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Old 11-16-2006, 05:06 PM
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ADD. Social anxiety disorder. Depression. OCD.

People often interpret some--if not all--of these as something that people need to just "get over", or that it's just "being picky", or "shyness".

Why is this? I see more commercials about mental disorders now than I ever have. To my recollection, there were none when I was growing up. But now it's "out" enough to be talked about in commercials. So why does ignorance still prevail about these and other often-misunderstood disorders?
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Old 11-16-2006, 05:08 PM
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So why does ignorance still prevail about these and other often-misunderstood disorders?
For the same reason ignorance is prevalent in regards to homosexuality and history.
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Old 11-16-2006, 05:21 PM
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I think some of it may have to do with some people thinking that illnesses are just something that are physical (more visible), if that makes any sense. People think of illnesses as affecting the body more so and not the mind.
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Old 11-16-2006, 05:35 PM
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ADD. Social anxiety disorder. Depression. OCD.

People often interpret some--if not all--of these as something that people need to just "get over", or that it's just "being picky", or "shyness".

Why is this? I see more commercials about mental disorders now than I ever have. To my recollection, there were none when I was growing up. But now it's "out" enough to be talked about in commercials. So why does ignorance still prevail about these and other often-misunderstood disorders?
The bottom line on all this is that people don't want to know. People rather just ignore these diseases of the mind. They tend to view them as some sort of character flaw.
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Old 11-16-2006, 05:37 PM
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I suspect that it is because there are so many people diagnosed with 'mental illnesses' who do not actually have that mental illness.

How many children where "diagnosed" with Attention Deficit Disorder merely so the doctor could collect his cut from prescribing Ritlin?
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Old 11-16-2006, 05:38 PM
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They tend to view them as some sort of character flaw.
Exactly. It is so much easier for some people to condemn than to recognize that there may be something there that runs a bit deeper than a mere character flaw. Instead of addressing the real problem and actually trying to help, it's so much easier to look down on the person and blame them for how they are.
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Exactly. It is so much easier for some people to condemn than to recognize that there may be something there that runs a bit deeper than a mere character flaw. Instead of addressing the real problem and actually trying to help, it's so much easier to look down on the person and blame them for how they are.
More often than not those dismissers offer a simplistic answer to solving the problem. How many people have been told that when they turn their life over to the supernatural their problems will disappear. In my life, its been more often than I can count.
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More often than not those dismissers offer a simplistic answer to solving the problem. How many people have been told that when they turn their life over to the supernatural their problems will disappear. In my life, its been more often than I can count.
Very true. Though I have gotten few recommendations to turn to the supernatural, people have often given me simplistic answers, that for a person not suffering from a mental illness might work, but for me would do nothing to help and could possibly even be worse. I don't know how that is for others, but that has been more my experience.
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