Posted by Buffet on October 30, 2000, at 0:00:00
In reply to Does Mental Illness Exist? Feedback Requested!, posted by pullmarine on October 29, 2000, at 21:18:59
In my opinion, humans have a tendency to place everything in a box and stick a label to it. In regards to 'mental illness', everything from mildly depressed to schizophrenic to pedophilia gets placed in the same box. Insurance companies (at least the ones I've dealt with) use this label to their advantage. Once you get prescribed prozac, you are permentally marked with the scarlet letter- mentally ill. Then, if you ever change insurance companies all the benefits go in the toilet. Once you take an antidepressant, everything else such as anxiety, add, etc. seems to get lumped into one class, and if youre ever diagnosed as having one of these after the bout with depression, often the coverage gets denied.
I've never liked the term mental illness. I don't see myself as ill. Also, the term has such a horrible connotation to it.
Interesting article!
Buffet
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