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Mental Health Support

Neoma

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3. Gone nuts, batshit crazy, they're stigmatizing words.

Reply to jambo101 (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 11:47 AM

Mar 2013

I have to say though, being a paranoid right-winger is in a completely different category. I think being fearful from lies isn't really an illness. It's propaganda at work. Relating right-wingers as mentally ill is stigmatizing by itself. But it's rather confusing. Are they delusional, do they want to kill people, and are they always afraid? Most likely. Is it from having a mental illness? ... Not always. Are the KKK mentally ill? No, they're simply assholes by design. That's just how it is.

What people deem as "crazy" doesn't always have a medical basis.

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I think my brother is/has gone nuts [View all] jambo101 Mar 2013 OP

well, we try to keep a lid on words like you are using, but i get you. mopinko Mar 2013 #1

The bro definitely is not into drugs. jambo101 Mar 2013 #2

Gone nuts, batshit crazy, they're stigmatizing words. Neoma Mar 2013 #3