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"... a number of serious mental illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s." Neither of those are mental illnesses, they are neurological conditions.
by CarolineW 11y ago
"... a number of serious mental illnesses,
such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s."
Neither of those are mental illnesses, they are neurological conditions. Maybe the rest of the article is 100% accurate, but when people make elementary errors like that it's hard to take them seriously. Everything else might be right, might be reliable, but errors like this make it clear that I just can't trust it. What value something I can't trust?
I'd love to know how to fix this problem. So much of what we read on the interwebs is mis-guided, mis-informed, or just wrong, and yet is written well and sounds plausible. You can't trust anything. So suddenly we need to check everything we read, and that's a huge, huge waste of time.
We need sources that are genuinely authoritative so we can believe and trust what they say, and save time.
How would you solve this?
- a3n 11y agoWhy does being a neurological condition preclude them from being a mental illness? I suffer from suicidal depression. Do you believe that's a mental illness? Before treatment, when I woke up in the morning, I didn't say "My serotonin paths don't feel right." I would think "Should today be the day I'll kill myself?" I am very fortunate that the cause of my mental illness is easily treated; the SSRI that I take started working almost immediately. The serotonin paths in my brain appear to be defective. That's neurological, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder
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