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By "crazy action" I mean for 2 years wilfully undereating, not washing, living in filth, not responding to basic communication (even to your own daughter) and s
by SpaghettiCat 11y ago
By "crazy action" I mean for 2 years wilfully undereating, not washing, living in filth, not responding to basic communication (even to your own daughter) and standing for long stretches of time at road intersections.
>And under what mental disorder should someone be institutionalised?
Under those that are responsible for causing a person to suffer and damage their own health and fail to try to recover, or seek help with recovery, as in the example above.
>All you've referred to is the DSM, so it's very unclear which illnesses and disorders you are referring to.
You've taken this comment thread on a totally different tangent. We're arguing a wholly different point now.
> Incidentally, are you aware that there is a difference between a mental disorder and a mental illness?
No, wasn't aware. I use them interchangeably.
- chris_wot 11y agoI haven't actually taken this on a different tangent. You literally wrote that you would only institutionalize those with a mental illness that is in the DSM, when questioned you said only certain illnesses would apply, so now I'm asking what illnesses and disorders you believe apply. There are a group of people in Australia called Ferals. They don't eat well, and they never bathe. They do it out of choice. I'm sure some of them are mentally ill. I wouldn't be locking them up in an institution!