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Why is it called mental illness?
- Thread starter Leo613
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My experience with the two psychopaths in my family leads me to believe so. Yes, there is.
If so, then why are so many of the "molecules of emotion" produced in the brain?
Some people's brans are defective, I suppose. I don't know how it works, but one must first have the capacity to experience emotion, no? Or those whose emotions are 'flat' i.e, there but undisturbed.
Deathbydefault
Apistevist Asexual Atheist
Emotional illness is mental illness, and it's easier to define the various illnesses at their source operator.
It may be a legacy of 19th century scientific materialism treating mental problems as stemming from the brain and therefore comparable to other physical illnesses. (I'm guessing).
I experience depression less as a mood (emotional) and more a state of mind (mental). Even when your happy, the depression is still lingering there in the background- like a sort of gravity waiting or pulling your mood down. So you just have to enjoy the "highs" whilst you still can.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
Depression isn't just emotional. It's a medical condition that's caused from the brain communications (mental). The symptoms are emotional but Depression itself (medical depression rather than the blues), the cause, is not.
Took them almost 40 years to "get it". At least they still didn't get it in my life time until the early 90s and they found the connection between the medical and psychological.
So, I guess a better phrase is all those conditions fall under psychological conditions. I don't care for mental illnesses. I don't know if "mental" is kept like they did before mentally insane, or he's a mental, or mental retardation, etc.
Depression is a mental illness (or psychological illness). The side affects are emotional.
Now,I know where is problem is came from
Why you did not tell me this before ?
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One is my mom, the second is my uncle. 'Psychopathy' isn't an actual diagnosis, but I use that word because more people are familiar with it.Now,I know where is problem is came from
Why you did not tell me this before ?
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Terrywoodenpic
Oldest Heretic
depression is more the an emotional problem. it can be catatonic.
Only those who have either suffered depression or had to look after a person suffering from it understands how crippling it is. It warps the entire mind and reasoning process. It is nothing at all like being very sad or emotional.
It can cover a very wide scale of severity, but should never be taken lightly.
the emotional aspect is one of the visible but minor elements of the process.
Only those who have either suffered depression or had to look after a person suffering from it understands how crippling it is. It warps the entire mind and reasoning process. It is nothing at all like being very sad or emotional.
It can cover a very wide scale of severity, but should never be taken lightly.
the emotional aspect is one of the visible but minor elements of the process.
"Emotional illness" is not a clinical term. Simple as that.
Dementia has a proven neurological basis. There's nothing that can stop or reverse neurological diseases. Amnesia is usually a result of physical trauma to the brain. In time the brain may heal. Depression is linked to brain chemistry and doesn't yet seem to be linked to a neurological cause. Providing the missing chemicals is really not different than using thyroid replacement hormone. Why aren't they all classified together as "brain disease" or brain disorder"? Search me!
illykitty
RF's pet cat
Well, in the case of depression, it can be related to issues with brain dysfunctions. For example, the reward system of the brain is not working properly. A lot of the emotional responses comes from malfunctions in one's brain and negative thinking patterns. Hence it's a mental health problem.
It's sad that mental health is still not seen as it really is. It's not just an emotional problem. The emotions are more of a symptom rather than the cause, in the long-term chronic ones anyway.
It's sad that mental health is still not seen as it really is. It's not just an emotional problem. The emotions are more of a symptom rather than the cause, in the long-term chronic ones anyway.
I think that the term "mental illness" is just a huge (somewhat obsolete) category for problems that manifest cognitively, rather than physically.
"Depression" is similar. It's feeling bad about yourself for any of various reasons. It isn't an illness per se, it's a symptom. So depression is categorized as a mental health issue, like mental health is categorized as a medical issue. But the overlap in the categories is huge, because everybody's problems are a little different from anybody else's.
Tom
Ana.J
Active Member
Maybe because they do not know how to deal with emotional problems?
Regardless of any possible distinction between the adjectives “mental” and “emotional,” the sole reason for psychiatry's nomenclature of mental “disorder,” “illness,” “disease,” is to try to give legitimacy to the idea that the thoughts, acts and desires that make up the various diagnostic criteria are bad, wrong, harmful and in need of treatment. This fact is most readily seen with the “mental disorders” that were once listed in the DSM but which the APA subsequently decided were not mental disorders--e.g., “Homosexuality,” “Transvestism,” “Gender Identity Disorder,” “Narcissistic Personality Disorder,” and many others (5 of the 10 “personality disorders” were removed from the DSM-5). As these examples illustrate, psychiatric “disorders” are not diseases, illnesses, or biological disorders; they are expressions of disapproval by white Westerners about certain acts, thoughts, feelings and desires.
Psychopaths can experience emotion. It's a common misunderstanding that they can't. The problem is that they lack empathy for others, seeing them as objects. It's very similar to pathological narcissism.
I more or less agree with all of these statements.
What do you mean by "linked"?
No primary mental disorder (i.e.,those classifications that are said to be not due to the effects of a drug or a “general medical condition”) is defined or diagnosed on the basis of objective biological criteria. That is the glaring difference between (primary) mental disorders and biological disorders such as hypothyroidism.
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Regardless of what you mean by "related to issues with brain dysfunctions," no Major Depressive Disorder is defined or diagnosed on the basis of any objective biological measurement of "brain function".
Indeed, according to the DSM, the symptoms by which an episode of "depression" is diagnosed are overtly socially relative, i.e., depends on what is "an expectable and culturally sanctioned response to a particular event".
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