Posted by finelinebob on May 11, 2004, at 12:22:59
In reply to priceless quote from parent, posted by Emme on May 11, 2004, at 11:36:29
> "So you see, people who are mentally disturbed insist on having their own way." Guess that would include large portions of the human population, huh? :)
Hmm ... so does that mean that people who insist on having their own way are mentally disturbed?
I'm kinda militant about not being "ill". It makes me think of that line from the Officer Krupke song in West Side Story ... "juvenille deliquiency is merely a social disease!" The way most people think, "mental illness" might as well be a social disease, too. You're "dirty" if you have one, and you probably got it doing something a "good" person wouldn't have done so it's your own fault.
Don't know if its still there, but at 72nd and Broadway in NYC there was this huge billboard (well, painted side of a building) that said, "Depression is a fault in chemistry, not in character." I try to keep that in mind as well.
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