Re:Poor mental health at work 'widespread'
by shubb on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @11:57AM
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Some people who don't fit in are labeled for sure, but other people are definitely ill.
A middle class teenager expected to focus on math and prepare for a desk job is inappropriately diagnosed with something, when they might have been a tallented athlete.
A clever, responsible man with a comfortable life suddenly hears voices that tell him his lifelong friends are poisoning him, and is incapable of seeing that this is a delusion, so he kills them.
The first doesn't preclude the other, and I don't think the second one is merely 'behaviors that don't fit the current societal norms'.
Sometimes brains go wrong. If you don't believe me, take a bunch of acid.
A middle class teenager expected to focus on math and prepare for a desk job is inappropriately diagnosed with something, when they might have been a tallented athlete.
A clever, responsible man with a comfortable life suddenly hears voices that tell him his lifelong friends are poisoning him, and is incapable of seeing that this is a delusion, so he kills them.
The first doesn't preclude the other, and I don't think the second one is merely 'behaviors that don't fit the current societal norms'.
Sometimes brains go wrong. If you don't believe me, take a bunch of acid.