To make the anxiety go away, Katherine does things repetitively. She frequently thinks to herself that if she does one specific thing (if she knocks three times on the table), then something else in her life will happen or not happen as a result (she will not die in the car on her way to school that day). Routines must be followed or Katherine’s anxiety worsens. Katherine has obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Katherine’s mental disorder prevents her from doing many things, and prevents freedom in her life. If you come across someone like that, do not mess with their world or their things. It will upset them more than it would any usual person. Do not step beyond their comfortable boundary. Before setting a boundary, always ask if they are comfortable with what you wish to do (don’t just sort through their perfectly stacked pile of papers, ask if you can look through them).
These are just a few of the many mental diseases that plague America, and these examples are very concise. I cannot stress how crucial it is for members of society to become familiar with ways to interact with the many people affected by these diseases. Like I said before, interactions and situations between people make up life, and how we “deal” with the more than 303 million people in America is what will help us fail or what will help us flourish.
Article comments
1 - flawedplan
This is an education in stereotyping, stigma and what is, for lack of a better term, biobabble. People with psychiatric diagnoses are capable of speaking for themselves, all else is hubris.
2 - Douglas Mays
Geez, glad you brought up the subject in this modern day and age. Christ, the world of psychiatry and therapy is so cro-mag. OK, let me say that there are a few good people in the current industry, but for the most part it is criminal.
I say that because hhhmmm...I guess it comes down to the ego of the people surrounding the so-called mentally ill person. Psychiatry sure seems like a cottage industry of the pharmacy world. You will find that a lot of therapists are just messed up people that get into the industry to 'help' people. Sociopaths like Joe mentioned above, will target environmentally damaged people, whose mental illness is actually not that bad, to be a friend. As you mentioned, Joe's sociopathy prevents him from having real friends (for good reason). So by shoving the targeted person further and further into the mental illness label, a very sick control is created....ugh! The targeted person only becomes worse in a reactive way, therefore validating the 'mental illness' false label.
Anyway, mental illness has to do with the mind. Very few in the industry actually know anything about the flow of the mind of the individual. A generic paint brush of assessment is usually the result.
The misuse of knowledge and law as a tool of oppression.
OK, I could go on, but that is enuf for now...
Stand Up!!
DM
3 - Marcia L. Neil
Modern public schools provide extracurricular sports programs so that individuals demonstrating such competence can move directly into a physical education teaching career path. However, those chosen often believe that they can instead do anything they want, forming elite influence networks to do exactly that--such beliefs and activities cause mental illness among the general populace.