# Mental illness is exaggerated **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 9, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522 "2013-06-09T03:18:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![lekatt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lekatt/32/7269_2.png) [@lekatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lekatt)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/421 "2013-06-25T21:34:44Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > If you love somebody, set them free. Because love will find a way. Love is the drug. Love is the seventh wave. Love is the answer. I want to know what love is. Let me put my love into you. If you truly want to love as I do, then I admire you. But loving others is good however it is not the cure people seek. The cure lies in loving yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/422 "2013-06-25T21:38:32Z")
> [@lekatt](#): > > If you truly want to love as I do, then I admire you. But loving others is good however it is not the cure people seek. The cure lies in loving yourself. That’s what they used to say _caused_ mental illness. ---
**Author:** ![Yossian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a8b319/32.png) [@Yossian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossian)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/423 "2013-06-25T21:44:28Z")
> [@Inbred\_Mm\_domesticus](#): > > I don’t know why it is, but whenever I read or hear an opinion like yours I immediately assume the person holding that opinion has bipolar disorder. LMAO. There’s a ring of truth to what he said though. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/424 "2013-06-25T21:50:47Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > If you love somebody, set them free. Because love will find a way. Love is the drug. Love is the seventh wave. Love is the answer. I want to know what love is. Let me put my love into you. Love is a four-letter word. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/425 "2013-06-25T23:17:02Z")
> [@lekatt](#): > > Pray tell what you would do when you tell someone about yourself and what you have done in life and they say “no you haven’t” as if they were privy to everything you ever done. Totally irrational comment. I have no answer for this, I don’t want to discuss what I have done with someone that doesn’t have a clue as to who I am. “Totally irrational”? It’s like claiming to be a baseball fan and not knowing who Cal Ripkin is, or whose record he broke. I’m sorry, that’s not being irrationally judgemental about the totality of who you are, it’s calling (with good evidence) “Bullshit” regarding a specific claim that you made.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/426 "2013-06-25T23:37:23Z")
> [@lekatt](#): > > Pray tell what you would do when you tell someone about yourself and what you have done in life and they say “no you haven’t” as if they were privy to everything you ever done. Totally irrational comment. I have no answer for this, I don’t want to discuss what I have done with someone that doesn’t have a clue as to who I am. Do you have joinder? ---
**Author:** ![lekatt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lekatt/32/7269_2.png) [@lekatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lekatt)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/427 "2013-06-25T23:59:10Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > “Totally irrational”? It’s like claiming to be a baseball fan and not knowing who Cal Ripkin is, or whose record he broke. I’m sorry, that’s not being irrationally judgemental about the totality of who you are, it’s calling (with good evidence) “Bullshit” regarding a specific claim that you made.:rolleyes: You believe every baseball fan would know every player in the league. Totally irrational. I read what I said I read. Your boy just wasn’t among them. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/428 "2013-06-26T00:12:55Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Love is a four-letter word. Love is a battle field - Love hurts. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/429 "2013-06-26T00:13:18Z")
“I have extensively read in the fields of psychology, philosophy, theology, psychiatry, spirituality, self-help, and anything else that touched on the human condition.” Not by a long shot you haven’t. It would be, I think, literally impossible to have ‘read extensively’ in psychology/psychiatry and not have run across ‘my boy’, as you call him. Still haven’t heard about your “research”. You strike me as quite grandiose, but maybe I’m just a Doubting Thomas. I can be convinced. So, back to your ‘research’, did you employ any of the following: double-blind, control groups, colleagues? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/430 "2013-06-26T00:42:11Z")
> [@lekatt](#): > > I read what I said I read. Your boy just wasn’t among them. Then you haven’t read extensively in the field. It’s pretty simple, really. And yes, anyone who said they were a baseball fan who read extensively about the game and didn’t know who Cal Ripken Jr is either is lying or delusional. But I was calling you out on your obvious falsehoods included in your ideas about mental and physical disease. I don’t care what opinions you hold, but when you start pushing that nonsense in GD you’ll get called on it every time. ---
**Author:** ![lekatt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lekatt/32/7269_2.png) [@lekatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lekatt)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/431 "2013-06-26T03:40:09Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Do you have joinder? Not sure what you mean please explain. ---
**Author:** ![lekatt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lekatt/32/7269_2.png) [@lekatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lekatt)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/432 "2013-06-26T03:42:39Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Love is a battle field - > > Love hurts. It is not love if it hurts or is a battle field. If love is true it expects nothing in return. It is unconditional. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/433 "2013-06-26T03:44:25Z")
Love me like a rock. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/434 "2013-06-26T04:25:58Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Love me like a rock. Love me tender. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/435 "2013-06-26T14:07:18Z")
> [@lekatt](#): > > It is not love if it hurts or is a battle field. > If love is true it expects nothing in return. > It is unconditional. Are you actually as culturally ignorant as you are making yourself out to be with these responses? ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/436 "2013-06-26T14:07:36Z")
> [@lekatt](#): > > Not sure what you mean please explain. “Research”. It is a process whereby you investigate a phenomenon using the scientific process, or a review of same. Tell us about yours. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/437 "2013-06-26T19:09:16Z")
You give love a bad name. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/438 "2013-06-26T23:24:19Z")
Love had a bad name all along. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/439 "2013-06-26T23:42:58Z")
Love ain’t nothin’ but sex misspelled. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/440 "2013-06-26T23:48:23Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Love ain’t nothin’ but sex misspelled. No, I think you’re thinking of “six”. 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522.md?page=23)