Re: Is mental illness ever used as an excuse for failure or bad Behaviour?
To be perfectly honest, Precious, you probably did the right thing. No point in carrying on hopelessly trying to make yourself believe you 'will cope '. All that does is manifest itself drive you into the ground, never to re-surface again to a normal life. .Re: Is mental illness ever used as an excuse for failure or bad Behaviour?
Considering you have such anxiousness and mental disorders , I think you do exceptionally well . The great things you have going for you which I think more than make up for your other disorders is that you are brave and honest. Since there is still such a social stigma concerning mental disorders many people try and hide them from sheer embarrassment of not being accepted.Re: Is mental illness ever used as an excuse for failure or bad Behaviour?
My response is pretty simple. Everybody is different. We shouldn't confuse character with personality. Mental illness per se is just that - an illness. If you have a bad case of genuine flu, you are immobile. You can't think straight. YOu burn with fever. Your whole body aches and the smell smell of food (in my case) drives you insane. My point is that you can't do a damned thing and you sure can't work. It is not an excuse, it is incapacity. Likewise a genuine mental illness is the same. Your brain is not working properly. This in turn affects your behaviour. There are no excuses involved. It just is what it is. And that is why mental illness can mitigate the consequences of bad behaviour in a legal sense. Having said all that, people have always used mental illness as an excuse for bad behavior. THe task the justice and health system has in a civilised society is to tell the difference between the two and respond accordingly. It's always about balance and reason IMO. What good does it do to be about anything else? YOur personal situation Presh is another thing altogether. YOu are an individual and I would never presume to respond to you in depth because we are not in a clinical environment. All I can say is that you are here and we (I think I can speak for all) are here for you to talk to. As friends And it looks like you have some very good ones here. They speak good sense. THere's nothing more I can add.Re: Is mental illness ever used as an excuse for failure or bad Behaviour?
wow. ive never received such quality responses on this topic on a forum before. thanks.Re: Is mental illness ever used as an excuse for failure or bad Behaviour?
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