What is it? Is someone obsessive because they are mentally ill or because that's their personality? When does an antisocial trait become illness?
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Wee and poo man wages war against supermarket thread some claimed he was a twat, and others that he was mentally ill. Is it a matter of whether he can be treated? Or just about the extremity of the trait?
And as an extension - is it moral to 'treat' personality traits as if they were mental illness?
I can't make up my mind on this. There seems to be so much of what makes up our behaviour, how weare treated. But yet this seems to remove a lot of responsibility from our actions.
I see a personality as a collection of experiences and interpretations, and the expression of these.
I don't see it as fixed, and I see character traits as neutral, which can turn either good or bad, depending on the experiences, the time of these experiences, and the aftermath/outcome of those.
In my limited knowledge on this subject, What makes things go bad, or good, is our experiences, and how we handle them, in the formative years, when our basic personality structure is forming for the first time.
Traits imprinted for the first time, are not necessarily fixed, but are more complicated to change if they are pathological.
Even if we have bad experiences, at this time, it dosen't mean we will turn bad. We may have a bad experience, then we may receive support enough for us to heal, and to grow from this experience.
I will wager that the wee and poo man, probably had some pretty deep disturbances in his life, which he has not yet come to terms with. The extreme responses indicate this.
I don't know the reason why he perceived these companies deserve a cocktail of his own liquidised excreta.
I know we can all experience frustration and dissappointment at various ways we perceive our relationship with these types of companies in our own lives.
I am assuming that wee and poo man has felt some frustration and dissappointment with these companies, and the wee and poo is how he is expressing it.
The problems lie with the way he has dealt with these, and they way he felt about whatever triggered this reaction in him.
It is an extreme and bizzare way to handle negativity, and whatever his motioves were, the very extremeness and bizzareness of it, is what tells me, all is not well in the emotional life of Mr Wee & Poo man.
Mental illness is, in a way, a separate thing from emotional/psychological illness.
OK some mental illness is has pathological emotional and psychologcal causes, but what of the mental illnesses that have other causes?
As I dont know the history of Mr wee and poo man, I would say there is emotional disturbance, from what I can see, and as to metnal disturbance, that's probably a decision for his psych services team.
person is fine and dandy with their life, why change it? if they're just a wee bit irritating, where's the harm? if you don't like 'em, don't speak to 'em.
eh?
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