I'm crass, coarse, and opinionated. At the risk of insulting mental health professionals everywhere, this has slithered into my own mentally slanted mind and must now manifest itself into a rant as usual, here on my journal.
How the hell do Mind Doctors know for sure when someone's cured of a mental disease? You can't do a blood test or take an xray, so how do you know when someone who isn't mentally stable is done being unstable and has reached a stable state? How do you know they're not just tricking you, or that whatever triggered the illness in the first place isn't waiting in one brain cell or another just waiting for the right synapse to bring it on again?
Consider this:
Aunt Kills Self, 2 Kids Walking Into Traffic
This article says that this woman had recieved treatment for mental illness, within the last year - but it was a brief isolated incident in her life.
The children's parents thought they were safe with her.
Love their hearts, that's horrible.
Now.. I'll forever be wary of someone who was only a little bit nuts and only once, just a while back.
I'm sorry. I told you I was crass.
SHE WAS A HELL OF A LOT NUTTIER THAN ANYONE KNEW, THE NEWS SITE SAYS THAT SHE TOOK OFF HER CLOTHES, THE KIDS CLOTHES AND WALKED THEM SPANG INTO TRAFFIC!
How the heck does someone with that much cheese sliding off their cracker come across as if nothing is wrong? My God some people are tricky. Tricky, tricky, tricky. Grrrrrrrrr!
Posted by juel at January 18, 2008 11:36 PM