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Is Mental Illness Mental Illness?

Is Mental Illness Mental Illness?

And what to do about it.

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Jun 02, 2025
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I keep hearing this phrase, “mental illness.”

People are not suffering from mental illness.

No one is taking xanax because they can't do calculus or forgot the dates of the Pax Romana.

People are suffering from emotional illness.

The emotional illness may lead to disturbing thinking, but the correction is not in suppressing the thoughts. It is in addressing…

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