The span
of mental illness is a continuum that ranges from minor maladjustment to
severe, debilitating, life-threatening conditions. We are all a little crazy and have some
habits that are a little crazy. The difference between diligence and
compulsiveness is often hard to distinguish.
Traditional
serious mental illnesses included psychosis, schizophrenia, paranoia, manic
depression, catatonia, hydrocephaly, microcephaly and dementia.
Hydrocephaly
and microcephaly are birth defects.
Brain
injuries are caused by accidents.
Drug
addiction and alcoholism treatment requires total abstinence and reorientation
to functioning.
Psychosis
includes hallucinations and reality dystopia.
Psychopath
is a diagnosis for “criminally insane” and usually requires permanent
incarceration.
Sociopathic
behavior lacks empathy for others and insistence that other people cause all
their problems.
Manic
Depression has been renamed “Bi-Polar Disorder”. Periods of Manic, high energy
activity and Depression, low energy crash will vary. Treatment requires
medication, usually Lithium. Some of
these patients are high functioning in the manic phase.
Homosexuality
was considered a functional abnormality along with bestiality and child abuse,
but Gay Rights activists are campaigning to become a “protected group”.
Gender
Dystopia is a new piece of sabotage from the Gay Rights crowd, but sex change
surgery will fade with the elimination of health coverage as not “medically
necessary”.
The LGBT
behaviors more reflect a sub-culture than a mental illness. Activists are
attempting to recruit others to support their aberrant sexual practices.
Ancient Hedonism was never considered to be a mental illness, it was part of
some ancient cultures.
Conditions
that require therapy include severe anti-social behavior, destructive
isolation, unresolvable anger, compulsive rebelliousness and cult behavior that
can result in violence, terror attacks and murder. Parents need to have
severely troubled children analyzed and assessed.
Troubling
tendencies in children that parents should address are less violent tendencies,
but are self-limiting and self-destructive and anti-social like being a
“loner”, reflected in bad grades and rebellious behavior. Drug tests should be done to determine if
drugs are the problem.
Rebellion
by children should diminish as children reach age 4 and reappear again as
children reach age 14. Some children are
not rebellious at all and that’s a blessing.
Parents need to correct their children, but avoid being tyrannical about
every little thing. Humor is the best
medicine and small failings should be forgiven.
Children are sovereign entities entrusted to parents to raise carefully.
Children are like sheep that require kindness and vigilance. Children are all
unique and different. Children should
learn that learning and work are fun.
This does not come naturally to some children. Children are like a box of candy…you never
know what you are going to get.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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