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Originally Posted by ScientiaOmnisEst
I was more concerned about the articles' claims that mental illness doesn't exist, or that it's wrong to help suicides. That what we call mental illness is just "life problems" or natural variations in human experience. Or another argument that pathologizing certain behaviors infringes on people's rights (because you're basically saying it's wrong to think or do certain things - if mental diagnoses were laws, we'd live in a fascist dystopia where thoughtcrime is rampant). Or indeed, the argument that we only see things as disorders because of our culture and there's actually nothing wrong.
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Those views used to be mine. While I do sometimes hate the labels and the pathologizing of human behaviors, I have come to believe that at least some true illnesses exist. If my hallucinations had been the pleasant type, maybe I would not have changed my views. But they were/are the torturing type which ruined my life. I'm happy to admit this is really an illness, and take meds for it.
I still do support a no force legal environment for afflicted people. I was taken to a hospital against my will in 2010 and it launched and confirmed my terror of the loss of individual rights and freedom.