"Y'know Nietzsche says that 'Out of chaos comes order.'"
Posted on 08/12/2014 1:28:29 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
The Mental Illness Cop-Out
http://takimag.com/article/the_mental_illness_cop_out_jim_goad#axzz3ACt8zw70
Been through AA. Didn’t do me any good. I left the meetings and went and got drunk. Only when I gave my life to the Lord and started helping others did I quit drinking and come out of my depression. I used to be on every type of anti-depressant and sleeping pill you can think of. One day I flushed them down the commode and said “to hell with it, I refuse to live like this”. And with the pills went the booze. Through helping others, you help yourself. Stay busy. Get off the pity pot. You’ll be a better man for it.
Congratulations on the 24 years. Perhaps Mr Williams’s substance abuse was just a symptom of an underlying mental condition. BiPolar is a tough disease, as I have witnessed within my family, immediate and extended.
There is situational depression and there is clinical depression. All of us at one time or another in life suffer the former. Others, such as myself, at one time or another suffer or have suffered from the latter.
....” I am a huge mistake on this planet and I would be helping everyone by leaving. “.....
That still remains a self-centered act.....otherwise the concern would be for the utter pain they would cause others by taking their life.
....” I am a huge mistake on this planet and I would be helping everyone by leaving. “.....
That still remains a self-centered act.....otherwise the concern would be for the utter pain they would cause others by taking their life.
Easy to say.
God bless you and your daughter.
Williams was sick. He had a brain illness. His body is hardly cold; a little compassion is appropriate.
As for his eternal destination, we can guess but we just don’t know. No one can say that he didn’t cry out to God in his last agony and receive mercy.
Would you say the same to a diabetic? That is, “I think I’ll go have a big ice cream sundae’’!!
"Y'know Nietzsche says that 'Out of chaos comes order.'"
No but some sure do try.
And a lot of killers are walking the streets because some liberal judge let them off the hook because some liberal lawyer coped a “mental illness” defense.
I pray for you, your family and in particular, your dear child.
I’ve had bad days, bad weeks even, but I’m quite sure that I’ve never experienced the kind of depression that some have had to endure. I count my blessings.
I agree with the article in this respect....
“The very idea of “mental illness” is schizoid. It implies that the “illness” is somehow a separate entity from the person, thus casting responsibility on the illness rather than the person....... Isolating the illness allows one ‘to pretend’ that their personality is infected with a germ, when the more likely explanation is that they simply have a bad personality.......The fundamental error in the idea of “mental illness” lies in creating a fictional duality between the person’s imaginary affliction and the core of their very being.
This in no way discounts the reality of neurological disorders. Those are ‘physical conditions’ that can be quantified. But in most cases, “mental illness” seems like a cheap and dishonest way of avoiding what are fundamental character flaws.
I suspect Williams was just as much angry as depressed.
Sounds more like anger about something missing their life.
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