> Can you? Look, the crux of mental illness is that the organ you use to understand the world and comprehend situations and consequences is broken. If I'm menta

> Can you? Look, the crux of mental illness is that the organ you use to understand the world and comprehend situations and consequences is broken. If I'm mentally ill, you can't convince me that I'm wrong or that I'm ill anymore than someone with liver disease can process alcohol. That organ doesn't do the job correctly anymore. Logic doesn't apply anymore. There are many different mental illnesses and certainly not every one of them in every situation makes your brain unable to do its job anymore. Also, many theories around mental illnesses are actually very vague (e.g. for depression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism) or the problem that it is very hard to get a conclusive diagnosis which mental illness someone actually has. It happens time and time again that different experts will diagnose different mental illnesses for the same person, because there's no simple test which you can administer, so it is mostly subjective and experience based. Not a good base for "hey, let's decide what's best for these people, because they clearly cannot do it for themselves."