Having a "mental illness" is a cope for people who came up short in life

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Why do you think that so many people claim to have a mental illness? Got any good stats, or are you just constantly exposed to the far SJW new left on Twitter because you read their shitposts like me?

If you included "temporary depression" as a mental illness, and counted in a 10 year increment, then sure, 75% of people are "mentally ill".

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

The best thing to do is compare rates between countries with similar socio-economic conditions. Then you can see if a certain place has a culture of over diagnosis because in theory people's brains work the same way the world over. (Spoiler the US does)

[–]hfxB0oyA 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

over diagnosis

Not to mention all the self diagnoses by people with their MDs from the University of Google Medical School.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I imagine we'd see huge rates of medicated ADD/ADHD diagnosis and some others.