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mikey · 03-01-2010, 09:51 PM

I agree that mental health is a continuum, but how does one draw the boundaries? Grief, for example, causes immense distress but is not seen as a form of mental illness, so the fact that an emotion causes distress doesn't make it a mental illness.

I suppose what I was really asking you all to answer is whether my diagnosis of manic depression (made a few years ago) is correct or not. I'm doubting it. Stupid of me to ask really. Sorry.

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Originally Posted by Isoverity

a false conditioned self rises on the decay of the natural self.

I'm sorry but I'm not really sure what you mean by this.

03-01-2010, 09:51 PM	#7
mikey I'm a girl Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: UK I am currently:	I agree that mental health is a continuum, but how does one draw the boundaries? Grief, for example, causes immense distress but is not seen as a form of mental illness, so the fact that an emotion causes distress doesn't make it a mental illness. I suppose what I was really asking you all to answer is whether my diagnosis of manic depression (made a few years ago) is correct or not. I'm doubting it. Stupid of me to ask really. Sorry. Quote: Originally Posted by Isoverity a false conditioned self rises on the decay of the natural self. I'm sorry but I'm not really sure what you mean by this.
	There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: 'This glass is half full'. And then there are those who say: 'This glass is half empty'. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: 'What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Terry Pratchett