Is Free-Thought a Mental Disease?

[Creed of Heresy]

"I don't believe in mental illness."

Try living with an unmedicated schizophrenic for a year like I've been doing and get back to me about how you don't believe in mental illness, mm-k?

Straw man.

I said mental illness is an incorrect concept, the effects of irrational thinking are very real.

Straw man my fucking ass!

You said, and I quoted, "I don't believe in mental illness." Mental illness is defined as the following:

"Psychosis (from the Greek ψυχή "psyche", for mind/soul, and -ωσις "-osis", for abnormal condition or derangement) refers to an abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality"."

Irrational thinking can be corrected with thought exercises. Shit like schizophrenia cannot. You know what happens when you try to convince a schizophrenic that their thought processes are irrational? They become even MORE irrational. There is literally no way to reason with a schizophrenic, and you know why? Because their brains are fucked up.

But I'm sure you have years of education in psychological education to make an informed statement on correct/incorrect concepts of mental health, right?

I'm noticing a trend on this forum lately; the people who bitch about the "validity" of the "concept" of mental illnesses are usually the ones with the least knowledge about them.