I think mental illness only affects the weak

I think only the weak are affected by mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. As society as a whole gets progressively weaker and less independent, mental illness rates are rising. I used to be depressed and then I realised that the problem was me, so I stopped being so weak minded and improved myself. Modern people seem so reluctant to take responsibility for their own faults and always want to blame their illnesses.

The vast majority mental illness is simply a case of weak mindedness. Strong emotions such as extreme sadness, grief or empathy are only felt by the weak and you can train yourself to not feel those things anymore. People wonder why their pills and drugs don't help them when they're refusing to try to fix themselves.

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  • You might have a point about the necessity of medication when therapy or other mechanisms might work, but, as perhaps you know, people with real symptoms shouldn’t be vilified or demeaned for suffering an illness.

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  • I only feel this way about drug addicts except for addictions brought upon for relief.

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    • My writing was terrible for this comment, sorry. I can’t stand drug addicts except in the case it was caused by addiction to pain relievers when there was an actual issue with pain. Otherwise they make me sick.

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  • Primus

    You're right, it does take effort for many, but there are also lots of people who are just so chemically imbalanced from trauma or genetics that they've become eternally fucked. No matter what these unfortunate individuals do, they will never be "normal" feeling.

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  • Mental illness is actually a physical manifestation of symptoms caused by an imbalance in brain chemistry and has absolutely nothing to do with being weak-minded. Most people with anxiety and depression don't have high levels of serotonin in their brains, and medication is prescribed to increase them. You can learn to cope with the symptoms and even alter your thinking patterns with therapy, but the illness, in some form, will always be there.

    I actually hate the term MENTAL illness, because there's nothing mental about it. It's a physical ailment, just like epilepsy or any other.

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    • LloydAsher

      People who need the meds probably need to get a blood chemistry check before getting any kind of meds just to be sure that there isnt any unforeseen symptoms. When I got prescribed depression meds it just made things a hell of a lot worse. Then they did a blood test and found a physcial ailment, got that sorted an now right as rain.

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      • Glad to hear it. It's hit-and-miss with meds a lot of the time. Often you have to try many different ones and different doses to find what works best. And yeah, that's another point. There are many other ailments that can cause "mental" symptoms, as in your case. A weak mind doesn't factor in to that.

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  • raisinbran

    You don't know shit.

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  • Mrown

    huge difference between "being depressed" and having depression, dumbass

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  • brutus

    LOL

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    • RoseIsabella

      I think this person is just trolling.

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  • Jimbo24

    That's probably part of it. Stoicism is obviously tied to strength of character. But some people are just naturally inclined to mental instability. I say this because in my family, I have several uncles from my mother's side who have these outbursts of anger and sort of erratic behavior. And both my brother and sister have very similar ones. In this case, it's too common in the family for it to be some environmental coincidence.

    So yes, I think part of it is just laziness to "buckle up" emotionally, weakness of character that tends to become more widespread in progressive cultures that are more inclined to blame ills on society as a whole rather than on individual behavior. And the other part might be genetics. But if you don't have such traits in the family, then chances are it's the first one.

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    • RoseIsabella

      Read The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius!

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      • dimwitted

        Gladiator?

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        • RoseIsabella

          Emperor!

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  • mauzi

    Haha, nice bait. I actually agree with you except you're oversimplifying. What you say here does apply to some people but as a generalization it shows your lack of empathy

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  • Killer22

    I was weak so I suffered so much,but now I'm strong

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  • delusional

    Good for you that you found your strength back, the only misunderstanding here is people who suffer from mental illness are not ill because they are weak, they're weak because they are ill.
    Many don't like being in that stage, they can't be happy because they're brains don't produce necessary enzymes to feel happiness, it should be treated. What works for one doesn't work for all

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  • NoLifer

    You are right and wrong at the same time. Real mental illness for the most ia the brain trying to cope with traumatic events or high levels of stress. Howeverin recent years mental illness has become popular and is now a escape goat everyone uses. People with real mental illness are probably not going to talk about it as much and will try to mask in a lot of cases.

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  • Tempestshadow17

    No, but stupidity affects the dumb

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  • poshirishwoman

    What about people with psychosis? are they weak?

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  • That's pretty much true. We can see that many people in situations that are objectively worse than what depressed people are dealing with don't react as poorly.

    Getting sick mentally is similar to getting sick physically, in that those with feebler constitutions are more prone to becoming ill.

    Things can send and push a person into depression, but speaking as someone with depression, the problem is mostly with me.

    Granted, I've never taken any, but I don't see medication as a real solution for myself. The best thing for me is being occupied with meaningful work.

    Being idle is just about the worst thing.

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  • chuy

    Oh trust me I believe it and boy is that a lot alot of people including the president and his brainwashed followers.

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  • Ohh well, I must be weak... Flip side though, I have everything I need, and I live a good life in a nice area. I have cars and a house with ocean views, I have quad bikes and boats. I have more then a lot of healthy "" people, I guess having problems probably helped me.

    You do realize that most powerful people, such as big business owners or wealthy CEO have mental illness, its probably what drove them to succeed.

    I think we need people that can think outside of the normal realms. Its why steve jobs took acid, in return made him pretty rich.

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  • LloydAsher

    Anxiety is the way of life for me. Not that it does any harm in the workplace mind you. My anxiety causes me to hate silence so I fill it with conversations note that I'm an introvert who's not good a social talk, makes for odd interactions and makes people think I'm a hardcore extrovert when really I'm the opposite inside.

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  • FromTheSouthWeirdMan

    Yep I've had anxiety and depression all my life and you're completely right. Its all in your head. Its just hard to overcome. I notice when I'm in a very happy mood all my anxiety goes away. But if something bad happens to me the negative thoughts bring me down.

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  • Doesnormalmatter

    Your definently on to something, but I still don't agree completely with the title. I would say that MOST mental illnesses are caused by weak mindedness, bot the blanket statement in your title.

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    • I don’t agree, but can you give an example where you don’t view mental illness as a form of weakness?

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      • Doesnormalmatter

        It depends a little on what is a 'mental illness' in your definition, but things like autism, ADHD, asbergers and bipolar disorder have been linked to genetics.

        https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/common-genetic-factors-found-5-mental-disorders&ved=2ahUKEwiu7bzrwvHiAhUNeKwKHbbkBNkQFjAFegQIERAN&usg=AOvVaw0fiqaChLjKvC7dGzQnjUug

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    • LloydAsher

      Could PTSD be excluded from the mental illness is for the weak? I mean REAL PTSD as in you seen your friend get killed in front of you or you were raped kind of trama. Not the overblown I'm triggered kind of PTSD that every college goer now has.

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      • Doesnormalmatter

        Not tryna be offensive, but PTSD is not genetic so I would not exclude it. Some people are more vulnerable than others based on lifestyle and personality, but nobody is doomed to have it.

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        • LloydAsher

          Unless you see some really fucked up shit.

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          • Doesnormalmatter

            I still don't think so. I still think its within the control of the individual and their mental fortituide on how the condition affects them. Its a tough call though.

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            • LloydAsher

              What's the harm in allowing some tolerances when it comes to the PTSD argument. Everyone has a breaking point when their mind can become jelly to be manipulated.

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  • SmokeEverything

    They are making people mentally ill on purpose. There are all kinds of drugs in the food and water and brainwashing tactics through the media to make people complacent and incapable of independent thought. Depression comes as a result of our unnatural modern lifestyles.

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    • Once again, you've smoked everything before commenting.

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      • SmokeEverything

        So you think they did all those MK ultra experiments and didn't do anything with what they learned from them? Please. People walking around staring at their phones all day are clearly being brainwashed.

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        • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

          they tried givin people lsd to make em more obedient and conformin to authority

          i couldnt possibly think of a worse strategy

          its fuckin typical pants on head retarded government thinkin

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          • SmokeEverything

            Yeah the government is mostly nerds and nerds don't take LSD so they don't understand that's going to have the opposite effect. Its pretty gray the stuff they actually did though, and you've got to figure they learned a bit about manipulation. They know enough to advertise unecessary things to people.

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    • LloydAsher

      Nope. I'm pretty sure it's because of the PC culture that makes everyone a victim of something. Depression is sadness about a goal that is farther than ones own survival.

      Isnt it odd how in places where people are starving to death depression isnt very high? Probably its because survival overtakes negative feelings.

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      • Probably because they have nothing to be depressed about, hence the scummy cancers of society have nothing. Also how could these jobless scum be diagnosed by a doctor? They have no money lol

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        • LloydAsher

          Haha let's beat down on the poor. I'm not an asshole but to get to the level of homeless of the long term you have to fuck up a considerable degree to end up like that. Such as addiction. Or poor financial management.

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          • Some of the comments though...

            ;So it's not ok to beat down homeless, but fine to beat down disabled or mentally ill people.. lol, maybe its just me but I don't understand most users of IIN

            I do think I make a good point when I talk about the "people starving to death" of whom you mentioned, that no one would know if they are mentally ill! They would not be seeing a doctor to be diagnosed.

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      • SmokeEverything

        Depression is sadness for no reason. Otherwise it's just called being sad. I can't really ever went to a third world country and tried doing a study on the rate of people with depression. But really you're agreeing with me, mental illness is being caused by the brainwashing of society. I believe the example youre using for this is that people are presented with ideas of what will bring happiness that are inaccurate but cause them to get jobs and seek houses and expensive cars because that's what the government wants.

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