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Originally Posted by divine1966
I like previous posters comparison to physical illness. If you had a broken leg and require a cast you wouldn't argue that it is your normal and you are not sick and don't need treatment. Yet having demons and others in your head telling you to kill people is something that doesn't require treatment. Something that causes you continuous distress yet it doesn't require any treatment?
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But voices in the head, depression, etc are not simple medical conditions. These are abstract experiences that cannot be diagnosed or tested or quantified in the manner of a broken bone or a B12 deficiency.
I dont understand the impulse to medicalize this stuff (actually I do, it's decades of conditioning by the MH biz). Maybe the OP just needs some freaking understanding and compassion and healthy human connection.