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Mental illness
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Mental illness
How should mental illness be defined? How do you decide when somebody's abnormal behavior is an illness that needs to be cured or just an interesting personality trait? Is a trait something to be corrected when it causes "harm"? How do you define "harm" then?
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Mental illness - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - December 23, 2013 at 1:47 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Minimalist - December 23, 2013 at 1:50 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Psykhronic - December 23, 2013 at 1:51 pm
RE: Mental illness - by LastPoet - December 23, 2013 at 1:52 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Jackalope - December 23, 2013 at 2:05 pm
RE: Mental illness - by FlyingNarwhal - December 29, 2013 at 3:59 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Chad32 - December 23, 2013 at 2:52 pm
RE: Mental illness - by pop_punks_not_dead - December 29, 2013 at 3:51 pm
RE: Mental illness - by freedomfromforum - December 29, 2013 at 3:57 pm
RE: Mental illness - by StuW - December 29, 2013 at 3:57 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Angrboda - December 29, 2013 at 4:04 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Rev. Rye - December 29, 2013 at 5:57 pm
RE: Mental illness - by bennyboy - December 29, 2013 at 7:23 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Rev. Rye - December 29, 2013 at 7:34 pm
RE: Mental illness - by bennyboy - December 29, 2013 at 7:58 pm
RE: Mental illness - by c172 - December 29, 2013 at 7:43 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Mudhammam - January 12, 2014 at 3:01 am
RE: Mental illness - by Jackalope - January 12, 2014 at 5:02 am

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