Mental illness is (and always has been) such a broad spectrum of things (and seemingly becoming ever broader in this day and age) that I really dont even allow myself to consider someone mentally ill unless I have had a literally uncountable number of experiences with them that point to such a notion.
I do this because I dont like to allow myself to pigeon-hole people as it were into being "ill" or "sick" just because the environment they live(d) in ate away at there "health" or "sanity".
This exact thing has often been my experience of life, for as a response to my complaints on the associations between the negative environment causing me and other people to think and behave in a "sick" way I was told very plainly by "professionals" that such a notion is quite silly and that a persons "psychological illness" developed most often from the inner mind and what that mind inherited from their biological lineage (ancestry).
From my personal experience I will say with certainty that there is a quite radical distinction between people who are "sickened" by the factors in their living environment throughout the course of their lives (most notable in the developmental years) and people who are simply born "sick" because they did not develop properly in the environment of the womb.
The modern world admits that the environment of the womb is critical to the growth of the human mind/spirit but after we come out of the birth canal we are somehow magically expected to have such a significant influence over our own autonomy that any "healthy person" "should" be able to "defend himself" against the "ills of the world". This is the notion of why so many people jump to conclusions of biological inheritance of mental illness because its much easier for us to excuse the situation and not have to "deal with it" when we can pretend like its all preset in stone before a person comes out of the womb.
Huxley once said a famous quote which I would translate into laymans terms as "Truly mentally ill people seem perfectly adapted in a sick and dying society, a circumstance which could easily damage/poison the spirits of even the best people".
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