“Mental illness is not a right of passage.”
I have no earthly idea what this sentence means.
I have no earthly idea what this sentence means.
Then you have not been privy to contemporary youth culture with its many lifestyle addictions.
Homosesuality is another mental abherration to which its adherents insist upon a right of expression. Another is political pathologies such as green, antiwar, animal rights, global warming, Bush hatred, and their ilk.
These are all self induced mental and emotional pathologies the intent of which is to damage the cultural fiber.
While there are links between brain chemistry and certain conditions such as schizophrenia it is not clear whether the tail is wagging the dog. Poor social constructs are likewise included in the mix.
My thesis is really very simple. Much of our difficulty in dealing with mental illness derives from our unwillingness to put the brakes on abherrant behavior early in the game. We allow cognative and behavioral dissonance to get far out of hand before we are willing to take a strong hand at insisting upon acceptable thinking and behavior.
We are a culture that permits far more dissonance than is good for us. This can only result in legal constraints being imposed where community standards are not working. Thus we come to rely on government to do what free people should do.