How can you tell if someone claiming to have a mental illness, short of a medica!
Question: How can you tell if someone claiming to have a mental illness, short of a medical diagnosis, lacks will power?
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Wow. good question. There is a HUGE controversy on this since a study came out that said that individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome benefited from more exercise.
Basically what it boiled down to, was to say that it was all in their head. Very controversial socially.
I personally think that if they are claiming the illness as an excuse, that is a lack of will power. However, you CANNOT tell someone that the illness they claim is a lack of will power. First, if they claim that they have a mental illness, there either is an illness or another underlying cause that they are claiming that. That has to be corrected or treated before any will power action should be taken. Two, you cannot in any way deprecate them. This can worsen any mental illness, or create one if they didn't have one.
Will and illness are related in the sense that the trend is that more illnesses have scientific proof:
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/05/…
Perhaps all mental illnesses will in the future. This makes the case of free will more difficult to apply. How much will do we have if we can find the cause of mental illness by science? How much choice to individuals that claim mental disability have when they commit a crime? It's all a very philosophical debate.
The brain is quite fluid and flexible, so in my opinion, will can have a great effect, but mental illnesses should all be recognized. You can't claim you don't have one when you do. There is what you will or want and then there is reality. The first step in helping yourself is admitting you have a problem. :) Then getting help or coming up with a treatment plan.
Be careful of being oblivious or ignoring the problem and masking it as a lack of will. Some people call sick individuals "lazy"... there is a perception bias. A healthy person has a difficulty understanding one that has something off. We tend to view others as ourselves and what we would have done. Big Error.
I need HELP, please. Can someone, help me in here? I don't know what else to do! :(
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