That's why I have a problem with NAMI, National ALliance on Mental Illness. Mental illness has become such a broad term, used to describe all disorders...there's really no comparing a sociopath or someone with ASPD with someone with MDD or PTSD. I am on disability for a mental health disorder, and that's the term I prefer. Because referring to me as "mentally ill" seems to infer that it's a problem with my core being, rather than being a mental health disorder that I have, just like a person HAS cancer, they aren't cancerously ill.

Does anyone understand what I'm saying?

I also hate how the media uses the term mentally ill, especially trying to blame depression for people who hurt others. LIke one of the COlumbine shooters was supposedly depressed and they blame it on that. And I'm like, no way. He may have been depressed but that's NOT why he shot up the school. Otherwise every depressed kid and adult would be shooting up their schools and offices all over the place, and there are a **** ton of depressed people in the U.S., so I'm not buying that.

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