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Where to draw the line regarding what's classified as a "Mental Illness"

1K views 8 replies 7 participants last post by  Introspiritual 
I think the line could be drawn where the person in question is harmfull to others and/or having personal problems because of the illness. So if a person is hallucinating, seeing butterflies near the ceiling that aren't there, that isn't a problem. So I don't think it's fair to diagnose the person as mentally ill, even if he/she believes that they're actually there despite others' countless attempts to establish that they're not there.

However, if the hallucinations were zombies who're constantly trying to kill him/her or if it's voices in his/her head telling him/her to harm other people it might be fair to consider it a mental illness. I mean, it's definitely a problem that the person would be better off without.

But well, for some people it's probably enough to not trust the establishment to be considered as a paranoid schizophrenic looney with toys in the attic.. I mean, there are those people who consider anything that's different from themselves as wrong and some of those people work hard, it seems, to categorize the different kinds of "wrongness"..
 
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