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The good thing about threads like this is that all the "mentally ill" wacko's come out of the wood work saying "Yes, i'm mental, please feel sorry for me". Which lets everyone on POF know who the sick mental cases are

bet you 1/4 of the people you know (friends, co-workers, etc) are on some type of medication for anxiety, depression, etc.

And how is a depressed person on the same level as a pedophile?

Try to work things out on our own for a change.

Animal has brought up some interesting angles on this thread topic.

I was dating somebody with this afflication

What affliction was that vivid? In the depths of depression I can barely make it up the stairs much less turn around and kick someone in the head. Perhaps she suffered from something totally different. Maybe domestic violence?

so the DSM-IV states being a child rapist as a clinical disease that can be treated with medications..

The fact that you even put those suffering from depression and child rapists in the same category is truly repulsive.

"It's a pity bigotry and ignorance aren't recognised in the DSM-IV. There might be more help available for these poor souls if there were."

Does anybody begrudge the profits of the companies that make insulin, heart meds, CF meds and let us not forget Viagra ~ quickest approval EVER by the FDA.......

Exactly my point. Everyone on the god damn earth is on that stuff. Go into any Western Medical Office in America and ask for some of their narcotics. They will gladly give ya some regardless of your reason for wantin it. Why? Cause it's business. More customers = more money. Every drug dealer on earth knows that.
I dunno. Go ask the shrinks, they're the ones that declared it as so. Afterall, their magic pills cure the "disease" of being a child rapist according to them.

Uh, EVERYTHING is a disease that can be cured with their drugs according to shrinks! When a messed up Judge sentences a child raper to so-called court ordered "treatment" for "pedophelia" guess what the shrink treats them with? Yep that's right razzberry, the same worthless drugs they give the "clinically depressed" people.

Um, no actually psychiatrists are the ones that put depressed people and pedophiles in the same boat, under the same umbrella of "mentally ill". Not me. And uh, that would make the psychiatrists the "repulsive ones". Not me. As for myself, I'm a straight thinking man who correctly places child rapists into the category of "heinous criminals who make a willful choice based on their free will to hurt a child for their own personal gain". As oppossed to "poor little sick men that can't control their impulsive urges to have sex wiff lil boys an girls cause they have a chemical imbalance and genetic brain disorder blah blah waah wahhh!".

Animal has brought up some interesting angles on this thread topic.
We live in a society based on popping pills for all our little problems in life...
"OW".....I stubbed My toe......I need pills....
Try to work things out on our own for a change.

I agree with Animal, I wouldn't date somebody with depression or mental illness. Once in my early years I was dating somebody with this afflication....unknownly, I found out one day as I was walking up the steps behind her when she turned around and kicked me in the head and I started falling backward - her sister caught me.
People, before you go on with your PC responses, please know what you are talking about. It all sounds sweet and all, but really you don't know because you've not had the experience. I probably was of the same mindset as you at one time but as I felt the rush of cool air rushing about me as a sailed down backwards in the stairwell....I got to thinking differently.
I don't know for certain what she had....I know through the many media stories in todays papers describe the perps as having depression before they "snapped" & killed innocent people. Domestic violence? Please; this is what I'm trying to warn others about this condition - you could be walking up the stairs after a movie with your crazy gf and her sister when things can go so wrong in a blink of an eye. That was the most shocking thing - the violence comes without warning. There was nothing there - it just happend. I could have pressed charges but her sister and parents were very supportive with me and I just left it at that.

All I'm saying is the problem with these illnesses is that it's NOT organic but stems from the personality of the 'patient' - sometimes you have to take responsibility for your own actions and not blame it on an illness. That's not ignorance or bigotry - it's belief.
Drugs are poisons....mostly. They inhibit certain proteins from occuring naturally or in cancer patients they are akin to a carpet-bombing destroying everything in it's path.
The cause of depression has not been determined, Spelly. If the drugs were the true
CURE to depression, then tell me; what use is a psychologist? Hmmmmm.....interesting ain't it?
Some people want to be dumbed down with drugs....perhaps they don't have the tools nor the time to develop the tools to help them cope with life's miseries - all I'm saying is
that other people don't have time for them either.