What would life be like if
we had the same attitude toward people with all types of illness as we do people with mental illness? What if we dismissed everyone's illnesses like we often do mental illness? What if we told them to just get over it like so many do to those with illnesses like depression?
Thoughts?
September 1, 2012
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[quote=ChildsPlay]Really now? Explains why just about any time someone makes a thread about something like depression here, a group of people barge in and try to belittle the person as if you can simply get over it.[/quote]
Because it's always said after they whine about something inconsequential. Like school is hard, my teachers all hate me, my parents are strict, and I'm depressed.
Regular human problems that every single person in the planet has always diminish the impact of "I have depression"
[quote=ChildsPlay]Really now? Explains why just about any time someone makes a thread about something like depression here, a group of people barge in and try to belittle the person as if you can simply get over it.[/quote]
I guess you have a point there. I was thinking more into the realm of mental retardation. It's probably because most people can't really observe another person's depression as an illness at all. To them it's just being 'sad' and oversimplified to just that.
[quote=SomeGuyXXX]If anything people treat them as more than regular illnesses. Which is silly.[/quote]
Really now? Explains why just about any time someone makes a thread about something like depression here, a group of people barge in and try to belittle the person as if you can simply get over it.
@ChildsPlay: If anything people treat them as more than regular illnesses. Which is silly.
[quote=YouOnlyLiveOnce]Didn't you make a thread contemplating suicide last year or something?
Because I remember your BasilID, I think you were a blob back then.[/quote]
Yeah.
[quote=SomeGuyXXX]I guess you could say that this thread is...
[b]Child's play.[/b]
Different mental illnesses acquire different reactions. Although, there is that odd group of people with the irrational fear of contracting autosomal disorders simply through skin-contact. That would simply be annoying for any kind of illness.[/quote]
Nice pun?
It just bothers me that people treat mental illness as if it isn't actually an illness. I guess that point isn't getting across too well to most people here.
I guess you could say that this thread is...
[b]Child's play.[/b]
Different mental illnesses acquire different reactions. Although, there is that odd group of people with the irrational fear of contracting autosomal disorders simply through skin-contact. That would simply be annoying for any kind of illness.
[quote=dumm]Treating someone with a virus as if they were mentally handicapped or mentally unstable would be idiotic.[/quote]
So that means yes then?
[quote=ChildsPlay]Is it really [i]that[/i] difficult to see what I'm making a point about here?[/quote]
Treating someone with a virus as if they were mentally handicapped or mentally unstable would be idiotic.
[quote=dumm]Treating a 32 y/o cancer patient is different than treating a 32 y/o with Down's.
The cancer patient can actively take care of himself and you can talk normally to him. With the Down's, you have to talk simpler and tell their caretaker.[/quote]
Is it really [i]that[/i] difficult to see what I'm making a point about here?
Treating a 32 y/o cancer patient is different than treating a 32 y/o with Down's.
The cancer patient can actively take care of himself and you can talk normally to him. With the Down's, you have to talk simpler and tell their caretaker.
@teresa: Sorry, I'm under the influence and kind of skipped over that. Alternative medicines like that is a load of bull.
But if medicine were to turn into what she described, we'd end up having a lot of prematurely filled morgues.
[quote=teresa]You didn't get the point of her thread huh?[/quote]
I guess it shouldn't be surprising given the trend in replies any thread about mental illness tends to get.
[quote=NonSonoFronz]...Because you can just cure cancer with a positive attitude.
I'd love hearing you say that in front of someone going through chemo.[/quote]
Way to completely miss what I was saying.
@ChildsPlay: ...Because you can just cure cancer with a positive attitude.
I'd love hearing you say that in front of someone going through chemo.
[quote=NonSonoFronz]So, shove tons of unnecessary drugs down their throat?
We pretty much do that now already.[/quote]
I was thinking more along the lines of, "Are you sure you actually have pneumonia?" or "Why don't you just change your attitude and the cancer'll go away".
I thought life was like that now? What kind of life have I been living? o.o
@YouOnlyLiveOnce:
#YOLO
I don't really think that would change much. People are treated for mental illnesses almost the same as virus-bacteria related illnesses. Medication, or therapy, by going to a doctor or psychologist
So, shove tons of unnecessary drugs down their throat?
We pretty much do that now already.
[quote=YouOnlyLiveOnce]The same.[/quote]
Cause you only live once.