Battletard wrote:
So I have bipolar disorder, and I am also a father..I've also been involved with NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) and served on a Recovery and Steering Committee for a local mental health treatment organization. You can't 'suck it up and get over' mental illness any more than you can suck it up and get over cancer.
Somehow I think if you were beaten hard enough, if the stakes were high enough - yes you would.
Battletard wrote:
St just doesn't work that way. Believe whatever fringe garbage you want, Aestu. The majority of the scientific and medical community (read: everyone who isn't a moron and is involved in the scientific and medical community) accepts the realities of mental illness as they are.
Cool, homosexuality is a pathology and what you really need for bipolar disorder is some insulin shock therapy and maybe a lobotomy. That's what the experts say!
Battletard wrote:
As convenient as it would be for me to just shove off the blame for my failures in life on 'bad parenting', I just can't do that. You don't know my parents, you dont know Jared Loughner's parents. You don't know what steps were being taken. Do you really and honestly believe you can attribute 'bad parenting' to something as widespread as mental illness? Do you seriously think it's that black and white?
I don't need to. These are human laws.
Battletard wrote:
S am the last person to play the mental illness card, when I fuck up, I take responsibility for it. I see it as no better than playing the race card in other circumstances. It only serves to delegitimize the real issues.
I know from personal experience with you that this is 100% untrue.
Battletard wrote:
My guess is that you are butthurt because Mommy and Daddy had you see a shrink, and the shrink destroyed the image of perfection you've created for yourself by diagnosing you with something.
Poor parenting, indeed.
Half correct. Does that make my point of view less valid than the PhD clinging to his piece of paper like the Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz" or the outcast that clings to a label rather than better himself?
Striving for self-betterment is not futile merely because we can never be perfect. People who refuse that challenge are sub-human.