Answer by Jillian P
ALWAYS I THINK - A LOT OF IT IS SITUATIONAL AND HORMONAL
WHICH CAUSES MOOD SWINGS - SOME PEOPLE GIRL VS. BOY WOMEN VS. MEN, POST TRAMATIC STRESS ETC.. ON HOW YOU DEAL WITH IT. CONSTRUCTIVELY OR SELF DISTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR. I'M NOT TOTALLY SURE THOUGH.
Answer by Black_Coffee
i think so the society generate such "normal" or ''bad' accordingly with what they may think is in their point of view.
if you dont do or say like them you will be "strange"
we do not need to be compatible with everyone
Answer by Gabriel
Not everyone who does not fit in is judges as mentally ill.
Most of the ones who are not normal or acceptable,are simply judged as "weird"or unacceptable.
It is easy to make a wrong judgment about people when we live in a society where many normal human traits are the same as certain symptoms of an illness.
We are showered with information every day every minute from many sources and a "normal"human brain will try to make sense of it within its primitive,animalistic, and childlike limits.
If you are a animal you will think like one and if you are a child you will also think like one.
It is natural for the average and/or underaverage population that has little control of their animal drives to create prejudices toward the unknown because they fear it because they have little control over that fear.
If you do not talk much you are labeld a "retard"
If you are slim you are sometimes labeled as "anorexic"
Even if you do not want to be a slave to the needs of others you are labeled as mentally ill although they do not tell you what kind of illness they think you have because in their mind there is no corelation with rebellion and a mental illness.You are just "ill" and you "must"change because they fear you.
People try to explain the unknown with what they have.If It is "weird" it must be an illness and it must be chased away because it is "bad".If it is "powerful" it must be a god and it must be embraced because it is "good".
Answer by Space
Mental conditions that causes harm to the person or to people around them are obviously an issue. So not all mental disorders are generated by society. There is a book of mental disorders. Check out this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders#Criticism
Answer by catharsis
both: its also how u react to it or let it affect u (the genetics is a totally different thing).
lets see: I graduated a year ago, can't get a job though I'm practically a nerd, I work around the house more than my parents do (hey, I've got the time right?), i'm young, a total control freak and a gal who thinks she can do whatever a man does (physically challenged but still), don't have a boyfriend and can't remember the last time I did and I don't go out of my way to socialize with everybody. ALL this in the context of a misogynistic country where the man is the pillar of society and has to do it all, where women are supposed to be submissive and quiet (which I'm not). my neighbors think I'm crazy for sure. I label them crazy and be done with it.
the truth however remains that people are more frail than one would think
Orignal From: How many mental health conditions are because of society's view of normal rather than the individual's problem?
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