Mental illnesses are real. There exist patters with people's thinking and the way their brain works that results in their either being problematic for themselves or those around them.

From my lived experience, it seems as though the majority of people do not believe mental illnesses are real unless somebody is literally insane and needs to be institutionalized because they're too crazy to be allowed into society. "OCD, ADHD, autism, personality disorders? They're all made up excuses for weak losers. They don't really exist."

Of course, if you have a mental illness, you're going to want to improve on yourself so that you can be more functional in day to day life and less likely to find yourself in trouble, but learning how to make a mental illness more tolerable isn't the same as curing it; you're just adjusting yourself to get around it, often painfully.

>>81961053 (OP)
nope they're not real because i say so

if you're a mentally ill person it's not worth talking to people who believe mental illnesses are magical mind viruses one can just psych themselves out of
don't even bother arguing

>>81961149
>who believe mental illnesses are magical mind viruses one can just psych themselves out of
You described it perfectly. The issue is, it seems as though the majority of people think like this.
>don't even bother arguing
This, but sometimes in life, you just have to deal with these sorts of people, and they will always think you're faking it or coming up with some clever bullshit excuse or just bullshitting for people to feel sorry for you.

>>81961053 (OP)
>tfw no mentally ill gf
>>81961149
Some of them you can though. Depression can be considered a hyperprior, hyperpriors in the brain can be overwritten with forced repetition. See Friston's work on FEP and predictive coding.

>>81961339
I imagine some things like depression, unless it's bipolar, can be made better and virtually cured with treatment, but depression also often goes away on it's own, unless it's contributing towards some vicious cycle.

>>81962068
I think any mental disorder can be somewhat ablated through hyperprior manipulation. Even something degenerative like schizophrenia can be better managed with therapy + meds than meds alone, and therapy is just a way to manipulate the hyperpriors, etc. Mild/moderate depression should be almost universally curable with just "thinking better" type interventions though I would imagine (barring some omnipresent negative stimulus causing the depression of course). The bigger issue is the vicious cycle, as you said, where bad thoughts lead to more bad thoughts which just reinforces the hyperprior and makes it harder to ablate. A significant number of depressed people fall into that cycle which is why it's such a hard disease to treat.

A lot of it is caused by toxin exposure and nutrient deficiencies. Some comes from childhood trauma that most people will never be able to overcome. A good example is when one of your first experiences in life is being sexually tortured and permanently disfigured by a doctor so that a hospital can make money and disable males at the same time.

Society is deeply fucked up. If mental illness can be said to exist, it is exclusive to those who are able to tolerate and even thrive in the current conditions.

They're real, but if you can read and write you don't have a mental illness.

The only mentally ill person I know is a guy that can't even speak and at best can move his arms pretending he's a bird.

>>81961053 (OP)
Of course they're real? Pretty sure this is accepted medical science.
I have bipolar disorder and have to take meds for it.
Wish I did it sooner because I admittedly made some bad decisions in my life while being hypomanic. Didn't want to accept that I was "crazy".

>>81961053 (OP)
So you're telling me I am supposed to believe quite literally everyone I meet is le self diagnosed adhd autist ochd ptsd retard? How the fuck does humanity function with it's entire population except myself mentally ill?

>>81962163
>How the fuck does humanity function
it doesn't

>>81961053 (OP)
hai again
im going to bed soon bc my sleep schedule is fucked, but i just wanted too say hello in your thread as is tradition!

>>81962109
>A good example is when one of your first experiences in life is being sexually tortured and permanently disfigured by a doctor so that a hospital can make money and disable males at the same time.
You can thank Jewish interest groups that this practice is still a thing. People who are circumcised are more likely to have a positive view of Jews on average, even though, if I had been circumcised, my hatred for Jews would be even more intense. Judaism is the most antisocial religion, dehumanizing everybody, saying they are below animals, and teaching that all others not only deserve to, but should be exploited maximally.

>>81962179
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>>81961149
>if you're a mentally ill person it's not worth talking to people who believe mental illnesses are magical mind viruses
It's because alot of normies (especially women) exaggerate their issues/problems to get validation.
Feeling sad or anxious some time doesn't mean you have a mental illness/disorder.
You have to have serious symptoms that cause significant impairment in your daily life.

>>81962121
>They're real, but if you can read and write you don't have a mental illness.
Retarded claim.

>>81961053 (OP)
i'm normal everyone else is weird