Are mental illnesses a scam

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Only industrialized countries have mental illnesses yet are the most heavily staffed with "mental health professionals"

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[–]jet199Instigatrix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Partly but also indulging in a mental illness is costly for the body so if you have other stresses to deal with the brains has to choose one or the other.

Sometimes this doesn't last which is why stressed people can suddenly seem to have a breakdown out of nowhere (often when things are actually easing up).

https://saidit.net/s/science/comments/8xlr/this_scientist_busts_myths_about_how_humans_burn/

[–]Antarchomachus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Most of them are. Depression, anxiety, ADD, these are not 'illnesses' so much as symptom of a rotten society that is inconsistent with the social needs human evolution has given us.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, they claim a guy chopping off his own penis is oky doky.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Pills are.

[–]soundsituation 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The same parts of the brain responsible for processing real speech also become active when people with schizophrenia experience auditory hallucinations.

Only industrialized countries have mental illnesses

This isn't true, although some disorders are reported less frequently in non-Western countries. Many disorders are also reported less frequently among people of certain non-white races who do live in Western countries.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Because they just torture you to death elsewhere.