What do you mean can you explain? Are you trying to say neurological disorders is problem with brain the brain is not fully developed? Where mental illness is a chemical imbalance.
I’m saying people think in these terms when there’s no good reason to.
I’m saying that those distinctions don’t mean anything. At least not to me. People seem to think that neurological disorder = intractable development disorder = special person who can’t help what he does, poor thing. Meanwhile, they think the person with anxiety or depression or schizophenia is just a “normal” person with a behavioral problem that can “clear up” with or without intervention. I’m saying that such distinctions are oversimplistic and unhelpful. Plenty of people develop neurological disorders later in life (raises hand). Plenty of people outgrow or overcome neurological disorders. And plenty of people are born with vulnerabilities to specific psychiatric problems that remain with them for a lifetime. It seems pretty ballsy to conclude the person in the latter position must have a “normal” brain just because they receive treatment from a psychiatrist rather than a neurologist. To me it makes more sense to assume that everyone who acts dysfunctionally has an underlying brain abnormality in the absence of other information.
From what my understanding is neurological disorder is any disorder of the nervous system. Structural, biochemical or electrical abnormalities in the brain, spinal cord or other nerves. Neurological disorders included epilepsy, parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and types of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Where mental illness many cannot be explain the cause by doctors or scientist the cause of most mental illnesses is unknown.
Some say it is a chemical imbalance well others say it is abnormalities in the brain. Some say genetics.
There was video on youtube don’t remember the name but it was explaining mental illness and some of the theories of Psychology.
I’m checking out youtube now see if I can find that video unless it got deleted from youtube.
If I can find it I will post it here.
Ah, but that’s the thing. Just being mentally ill isn’t grounds for a lack of “free will”. You can be mentally ill and still be guilty in the eyes of the law. It’s much more complex than that. Not all mentally ill people are wild and out of control.