don't patronize me!

So I sez to him, I sez to him he is a virtuous butthole an' a great speaker an'... an' he sez "well I can be dat,eh?" but it turns out he was crazy. But I digress

Don't look now but there's one man too many in this room and I think it's you.

Mentally healthy people. On Fark. C'mon.

I'm sane and have paperwork to prove it

Rest assured, I do not suffer from mental illness.

/I thoroughly enjoy it!

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm schitzophrenic
And so am I

Anagrammer: Rest assured, I do not suffer from mental illness.

/I thoroughly enjoy it!

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Came Here to say that .......

also there are a great number more people who are "mentally ill" it just does not interfere with their lives or harm them , so would not be recognized as an illness.

fregniacciaro: Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm schitzophrenic
And so am I

That's not schizophrenia.

I don't SUFFER from mental illness, I accept and embrace it.

Just like everybody else I am related to.

I'm not mentally healthy and fark the 1 in 5, neither are half the people I know.

That's one angle at least. The other one is that people are just people, born with the dice rolled a certain way and then twisted by life experience another way. When you know enough about anyone and the world in which they're immersed, the idea of who is "mentally ill" and who is not becomes pretty farking academic.

/I might also be drunk, so sorry :)

The frogs on the shower curtain are talking to me.

The article was unclear. Or I'm just tired. Are they including depression in their definition of mental illness?

If so, I'd think it'd be higher. All my friends have depression/anxiety issues. Then again, they're mostly lawyers. Comes with the territory.

piltdown: fregniacciaro: Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm schitzophrenic
And so am I

That's not schizophrenia.

Ya think?
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boobsrgood: Don't see no crazy round here!

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Is that a Sony commericial?

Can I get a "probability does not work like that!"?

I laugh a lot because I find many things amusing.
I laugh when I am sitting art my desk or driving because it is too much trouble to let others in on the observation.
Just because I laugh so much does not make me crazy.

Adolf Oliver Nipples: Amazing that a full 20% of the population has mental illness issues. Now that it has achieved genuine epidemic levels we can treat it as the new normal. It won't be long until we're all walking around popping our Prozacs, trading them for lithium like they're just different flavors, getting our chemical bliss out of vending machines.

Or, just maybe, it's all bullshiat. Like now everybody has ADD. Drugs! Drugs everywhere! Chemically stupified kids don't make waves! Or depression, now everybody in the richest country in the world, where everybody, even the homeless, live better than kings did in days of yore, is depressed. Drugs! Prozac for everybody!

20%. What a farking joke.

There is no "normal". In fact, the belief that one is normal and NOT suffering from a mental problem is known as Delusional Normality Syndrome, a serious medical condition. But, there is medication which can help. Talk to your doctor!

Adolf Oliver Nipples: Amazing that a full 20% of the population has mental illness issues. Now that it has achieved genuine epidemic levels we can treat it as the new normal. It won't be long until we're all walking around popping our Prozacs, trading them for lithium like they're just different flavors, getting our chemical bliss out of vending machines.

Or, just maybe, it's all bullshiat. Like now everybody has ADD. Drugs! Drugs everywhere! Chemically stupified kids don't make waves! Or depression, now everybody in the richest country in the world, where everybody, even the homeless, live better than kings did in days of yore, is depressed. Drugs! Prozac for everybody!

20%. What a farking joke.

and that's why we can't have

ktybear: Adolf Oliver Nipples: Amazing that a full 20% of the population has mental illness issues. Now that it has achieved genuine epidemic levels we can treat it as the new normal. It won't be long until we're all walking around popping our Prozacs, trading them for lithium like they're just different flavors, getting our chemical bliss out of vending machines.

Or, just maybe, it's all bullshiat. Like now everybody has ADD. Drugs! Drugs everywhere! Chemically stupified kids don't make waves! Or depression, now everybody in the richest country in the world, where everybody, even the homeless, live better than kings did in days of yore, is depressed. Drugs! Prozac for everybody!

20%. What a farking joke.

and that's why we can't have

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Chicken Pot Pie, this are my favorite thing.

andynz81: I'm not mentally healthy and fark the 1 in 5, neither are half the people I know.

That's one angle at least. The other one is that people are just people, born with the dice rolled a certain way and then twisted by life experience another way. When you know enough about anyone and the world in which they're immersed, the idea of who is "mentally ill" and who is not becomes pretty farking academic.

/I might also be drunk, so sorry :)

Yeah, I have a strategy: surround yourself with crazy people. Then you KNOW you're sane.

Well if they're including depression and anxiety, that's not an alarming number.

I'm pedantic, obsessive/compulsive about some things, depressed, megalomaniacle, somewhat aspergery, slightly drunk and naked from the waist down. I'm the 20%.

Occupy Weird Street!

itwasabright: this are

and since mine to"

Is this American style mental illness or actual mental illness?

LawyersRock: The article was unclear. Or I'm just tired. Are they including depression in their definition of mental illness?

If so, I'd think it'd be higher. All my friends have depression/anxiety issues. Then again, they're mostly lawyers. Comes with the territory.

Fetishes alone probably puts things at ten percent.

Smackledorfer: LawyersRock: The article was unclear. Or I'm just tired. Are they including depression in their definition of mental illness?

If so, I'd think it'd be higher. All my friends have depression/anxiety issues. Then again, they're mostly lawyers. Comes with the territory.

Fetishes alone probably puts things at ten percent.

One out of five, eh?



I think I found him.

"look around you, if you see four mentally healthy people, it's you"

And what if I can only hear them?

I ain't crazy, and neither am I.

Adolf Oliver Nipples: Amazing that a full 20% of the population has mental illness issues. Now that it has achieved genuine epidemic levels we can treat it as the new normal. It won't be long until we're all walking around popping our Prozacs, trading them for lithium like they're just different flavors, getting our chemical bliss out of vending machines.

Or, just maybe, it's all bullshiat. Like now everybody has ADD. Drugs! Drugs everywhere! Chemically stupified kids don't make waves! Or depression, now everybody in the richest country in the world, where everybody, even the homeless, live better than kings did in days of yore, is depressed. Drugs! Prozac for everybody!

20%. What a farking joke.

People just need to be more "bootstrappy" right?

New report says one in five people suffer from mental illness, so look around you, if you see four mentally healthy people, it's you

Whew. Good thing I just see four purple penguins trying in vain to ride unicycles, in that case.

/their feet aren't reaching the pedals

SilentStrider: I'd be surprised if there's ONE mentally healthy person around here.

I'm bi polar type 2. I'm farking cra... Typical. For fark that is.

doglover: If poor people could afford healthy food and time to cook it, we'd probbaly see a huge boom is actually attractive looking people.

http://www.poorgirleatswell.com/

Ain't impossible.

As for the reputed prevalence of mental illness? So many factors.

The line between what is a Label and what is just a mundane mental difficulty is unclear, culturally linked, and moves often. Some people have severe problems with their minds. Some people have a little more trouble bouncing back from sadness, or paying attention, or not worrying, or going the fark to sleep instead of posting on Fark. Etc. You live and you deal.

Another take: there are minor physical issues that we give names (and sometimes treatments) to. Someone might be prone to nosebleeds or have flat feet or mild vertigo or a shaky knee. We still aren't very good at clearly defining mental problems, but there's no reason why "mental illness" should only imply TOTES CRAY CRAY. Could just as easily apply to named but low-grade conditions that may not require formal treatment.

1 in 5?

So, does that mean I have a lot of long lost family members since everyone in my family but my grandmother, my father, and I belong on Jerry Springer?

Seriously, if I could legally sell my family to Jerry Springer, I would never have to work again. Ever. And I could probably afford to host a weekly Fark party for the rest of my life.

Adolf Oliver Nipples: Inchoate: Could just as easily apply to named but low-grade conditions that may not require formal treatment.

Then what's the point? Hey, let's totally devalue a diagnosis of mental illness such that nobody takes it seriously anymore. Because if everybody's mentally il, then nobody is.

Your idiosyncrasies are not mental illness. That guy who goes crazy and assaults people if they move his imaginary pet turtle? Yeah, he's crazy. There are shades of gray in between, but I respectfully suggest that the shade be really farking dark before you go down that path lest you discredit everybody, especially people with real problems and not just occasional sadness over a life wasted because of youthful indifference or indiscretion.

What are your qualifications for determining who is and who is not mentally ill.

We are at work too much. Too many hours in one day, too many days in one week, too many weeks in one year, too many years of our lives...all so a very small number of people can continue hoarding more wealth than history's richest monarchs could ever use. They've had the best psychologists on their side for a few decades now, pilfering our passive brains in the form of captive audiences in front of the television, and I have to wonder if we'll ever recover as a culture from it?

Would it even be possible to re-educate the citizenry to strive for a sensible amount of materialism so that our consciousnesses can acquire the necessary amounts of down time?

/6-4-40
//6 hour days
///4 day weeks
////40 week years
//live with the results, bask in the free time